Series 6000: Instruction

6172.1 Gifted and Enrichment Programs for Children

Gifted students are those with outstanding learning abilities or outstanding talent in the creative arts.

The school district shall provide educational programs for the gifted and talented, within budgetary constraints, that include a broad spectrum of learning experiences which increase knowledge and develop skills necessary for the student to function successfully in society while encouraging students to excel in areas of special competence and interest. Any enrichment program Thomaston Public Schools offers shall have a clearly articulated entrance criteria approved by the Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment.

Though early identification of the gifted and talented is important, it is essential that the identification of these students be recognized as a continuing process in that special abilities and skills appear at different times in the lives of many children and new children are regularly being enrolled in the system

Legal Reference:   

Connecticut General Statutes

10-76a-(e) Definitions.

10-76d-(e) Duties and powers of Boards of Education to provide specialmeducation programs and services.

Policy Revised:   September 13, 2021

Policy adopted:   November 19, 2007  THOMASTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Thomaston, Connecticut