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COMAR 13A.04.07 · Maryland Model of Gifted and Talented Education
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- GT
- Short for gifted and talented. A student the school system has identified as having outstanding talent, or the potential for it, compared with others of a similar age and experience.
- Universal screening
- Looking at every student in a grade, not only those a teacher or parent nominates, to find who may need GT services.
- CogAT
- The Cognitive Abilities Test, a group reasoning test that many Maryland school systems use as one part of GT screening.
- ESSA plan
- The Every Student Succeeds Act plan. Each school system writes a Consolidated Strategic Plan that should describe how it serves GT students.
- IEP and 504 plan
- Written plans that give extra support to students with disabilities. A student can be gifted and have one of these plans, which is sometimes called twice exceptional or 2e.
- Acceleration
- Moving a student ahead in one subject or a whole grade because they are ready, instead of keeping to the usual pace for their age.