Counseling in Schools Module Eleven: Exceptional Children-Gifted Education

East Carolina University

Prof Intro... This week we will be exploring another topic that has in the past fallen under the umbrella of exceptional children, Gifted Education. There currently exists a movement advocating for establishing Gifted Education separately from Special Education. You may have previous exposure to the area of gifted education or you may not—either way is okay! This week we will begin our work with a brief introduction to gifted education through a Podcast by PBS.org. After this introduction, we will move into an exploration of twice-exceptional students. Twice exceptional students are students who are gifted in one area and face a disability in another area. Twice exceptional students are often a new concept for counseling students, so much of our time this week will be spent exploring the issues impacting these students. Our discussion board debate this week will focus on the real and the ideal of the role of the school counselor in regards to working with gifted students and gifted education programs.

Goals:

• To raise awareness of the issues facing gifted students and families. • To learn about the characteristics of twice exceptional students. • To learn about the services needed to meet the needs of twice-exceptional students. • To reflect on your personal perceptions regarding gifted education and the role of school

counselor in gifted education. • To discover and share one resource to help school counselors meet the needs of gifted

students.

Apprx Time

Activity Notes

1.5 hrs Reviewing

documents, websites and listening to podcast

These are the required listening/readings for the week:

Gifted Education Podcast: http://learningmatters.tv/blog/podcasts/podcast-gifted-

education/1058/ Gifted Children with ADHD.pdf The Twice Exceptional Guide http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODED

etail.aspx?page=3&TopicRelationID=1540&ContentID=38079&Content=86674

Twice Exceptional Students: An Introductory Resource http://www.cde.state.co.us/gt/download/pdf/TwiceExceptiona

lResourceHandbook.pdf The Twice Exceptional Newsletter http://www.2enewsletter.com/Understanding%20and%20Edu

cating%20the%202e%20Child.htm

You may not have time to read each of these closely, but please make sure that you read judiciously and that you bookmark or print these resources to assist you in your

professional work later on.

1.5 hrs spread over course of week

Discussion Board Reflection

Gifted Education Programming and the School Counselor's Role This week we are debating the "Real" vs the "Ideal" when it comes to the school counselor's role in gifted education programming. Group A will support the REAL side of the debate and Group B will support the IDEAL side. Please consider the needs of gifted and twice-exceptional students as we debate.

30 mins Final Project Prep

At this point you should be gathering data for assessing the impact of your project. This is an important step and your 'impact/outcomes' data needs to be related to your initial baseline data to demonstrate how your initiative impacted students. Please also make sure that you post your third journal this week on your journal group's page. Please have your journal posted by Wednesday and please also make sure that you read and comment on your group members' journals. I'm looking forward to reading these. Please follow Prompt 3 listed below and under the Assignments tab. Prompt 3: Improving my project: At this time, I think

No practice quiz this week.