NAGC Pre-K-Grade 12 Gifted Education Programming Standards: A Guide to Planning and Implementing Quality Services for Gifted Students

The Pre-K–Grade 12 Gifted Education Programming Standards should be part of every school district’s repertoire of standards to ensure that the learning needs of advanced students are being met.

The new edition of this popular book helps schools understand the updates to the standards, which have a renewed emphasis on equity and inclusion. The six standards focus on student outcomes in learning and development, assessment, curriculum planning and instruction, learning environments, programming, and professional learning (updated from professional development used in the 2010 version). This book details these standards and provides suggestions for implementing each one. It also includes sample assessments of student products and performances, which will assist schools in developing program and service evaluation benchmarks.

This book is a must-have for school leaders and gifted education professionals who want to offer the most effective services for gifted and advanced students. It is a service publication of the National Association for Gifted Children (Washington, DC). This designation indicates that this book has been jointly developed with NAGC and that this book passes the highest standards of scholarship, research, and practice.

Susan K. Johnsen, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Educational Psychology at Baylor University. She has written three tests for identifying gifted students and more than 300 articles, monographs, technical reports, chapters, and books related to gifted education.

Debbie Dailey, EdD, is Associate Professor of Education and Chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Central. She serves as treasurer for Arkansans for Gifted and Talented Education, Chair of the STEM network at National Association for Gifted Children, and President-Elect for Council for Exceptional Children-The Association for the Gifted.

Alicia Cotabish, EdD, is Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning at the University of Central Arkansas. Alicia is the former past-president of the Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators and currently serves as Co-Chair of the National Association for Gifted Children Standards Committee.