The Cedarburg School District uses multiple criteria, in accordance with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, to identify gifted services in five areas. Multiple criteria used for identification of gifted and talented services may include standardized test scores, individualized testing, parent/guardian nominations, teacher nominations, and district assessments.
The five areas in which students are identified for gifted services include:
- General Intellectual Ability (high level of overall intelligence)
- Specific Academic Ability (excels in one or more academic subjects)
- Creativity (has original, varied, and/or unusual ideas and solutions)
- Artistic (Visual/Music) (intuitive sense of artistic or musical concepts)
- Leadership (demonstrates an unusual ability to relate to and motivate other people)
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