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Daphne Odom, Supervisor 12th Floor Andrew Johnson Building 912 S. Gay Street Knoxville, TN 37901 (865) 594-1731 |
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The Gifted and Talented (GT) Coaching staff welcomes you and your family to our website. On this webpage you will find links to Frequently Asked Questions, information about your GT Coach, program and curricular details, and other resources.
GT Coaches emphasize creating and maintaining stimulating classroom environments with academic rigor for our advanced and gifted learners. We work collaboratively with administrators and classroom teachers to create and share resources designed specifically for advanced learners. Knox County Schools is committed to providing opportunities to nurture, challenge, and develop the potential of high ability students.
Please contact the GT coach at your child’s school or Daphne Odom, GT Supervisor (594-1731) to help answer any questions you may have about the opportunities available for your child.
The Gifted/Talented Coaching Department is eager to share the many resources our GT Coaches have to offer students and classroom teachers. We have been hard at work creating resources and activities to help support classroom teachers meet the needs of our advanced learners. An emphasis is placed on student products and maintaining stimulating classroom environments with academic rigor for our advanced and gifted learners.
When a gifted student whose intellectual ability and potential for achievement are so outstanding that their needs cannot be met in general education with accommodations met through the combined efforts of general education (enrichment, compacting, acceleration, grouping, independent study, advanced classes, supplemental learning materials, co-teaching, differentiated instruction), the student may receive special education services through an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) in order to ensure Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE).
Classroom teachers, Gifted and Talented Coaches, the Gifted and Talented Supervisor, Curriculum and Instruction Coaches, and department supervisors work closely to plan appropriate instruction for students as needed. Knox County Schools is committed to providing opportunities to nurture, challenge, and develop the potential of high ability students.
Our Vision:
The vision of the Gifted and Talented (GT) Department is two-fold. Our responsibility to students is to foster an environment that cultivates insatiable thinkers who persevere in solving problems critically and creatively within our global community. Our responsibility to teachers is to give them the capacity to develop and implement innovative, research-based teaching strategies for high ability learners through professional development, model lessons, and co-teaching.
Our Mission:
The mission of the gifted and talented department is to support teachers in their efforts to meet the needs of advanced learners through intellectual challenges and opportunities. We will accomplish this mission through partnerships with teachers, students, their families and communities.
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Department Announcements WordMastersThe Gifted and Talented Department sponsors the optional WordMasters competitions for our elementary schools. The WordMasters Challenge is a fun and mind-stretching classroom competition for Language Arts students in grades 3-5. WordMasters encourages growth in vocabulary and verbal reasoning. Over 4,200 school teams, from 50 states, participated last year.
WordMasters addresses higher-level word comprehension and logical abilities and helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically. It challenges students to solve analogies based on relationships among words they have learned. These analogies are drawn from special vocabulary lists, which students are provided before each challenge. Please contact the GT Coach at your child's school if you have any other questions about WordMasters and also to see if your school participates. Department Links  NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GIFTED CHILDRENThe National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) is an organization of parents, teachers, educators, other professionals, and community leaders who unite to address the unique needs of children with demonstrated gifts and talents Department Files
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