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Sandy Roach, Supervisor
5th Floor
Andrew Johnson Building
912 S. Gay Street
Knoxville, TN 37901
(865) 594-1731
PHILOSOPHY
The Knox County School System views gifted and talented students as those students who demonstrate outstanding academic and intellectual ability, creative thinking, and leadership skills. The Knox County School System is committed to providing an appropriately challenging academic environment, which focuses on high achievement aligned with National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) standards through regular, vocational, and or special education.
Knox County Talented and Gifted Program is an enrichment program for 3rd through 5th grade students. TAG is for high academic achievers who want or need the additional challenge offered by higher level thinking projects, in-depth research, or development of a particular area of interest.
Success in the Talented and Gifted (TAG) Program comes mainly from each student’s intrinsic motivation and is dependent upon attitude, behavior, teamwork, cooperation, and willingness to work toward a goal. It is also a process-oriented approach to learning that allows students to extend and explore the curriculum. Students work in small groups, with partners, and individually to demonstrate learning through projects, products, and presentations. The TAG teacher combines all resources from the regular instructional program to appropriately meet the needs of advanced/gifted students.
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, team teaching), the student may receive special education services through an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) in order to ensure Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE).
Classroom teachers, Talented and Gifted teachers, the Talented and Gifted Supervisor, Curriculum and Instruction Facilitators, 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.
Department Announcements BATTLE OF THE SCHOLARS Dear Parents, This year Knox County Schools will host a Battle of the Scholars competition for participating elementary schools. The goal of the competition is to challenge students to share their knowledge of the curriculum in a competitive, cooperative, and challenging environment. The first part of the competition is a written test given at the school-level between February 10-12, 2010, to any 4th and 5th grade students wishing to participate. No study information will be given to students for the written test. However, the science and social studies curricula are posted on the Knox County website under the science, social studies, and Talented and Gifted departments. The top 25 combined 4th and 5th grade student qualifiers from the written test will advance to a school-based Science/Social Studies Bee held March 17-24, 2010. Seven students will advance from the school-based Science/Social Studies Bee to represent their schools in the countywide regional competition held on April 5, 2010. Four teams will advance from the regional competition to represent their schools in the finals held on April 22, 2010 in the Knox County Board Room of the Andrew Johnson Building. The competitions will be televised on the Public Broadcasting Channel. Parents are welcome to attend the finals. If your child advances to the regional competition, we must have a commitment from the student and parent to continue throughout the entire competition. A commitment letter will be sent home for a signature guaranteeing the commitment to the team, school, and district. It will also be the responsibility of the parent/guardian to get his/her child to the regional competition that will be held at one of the area high schools. On behalf of Knox County Schools, we look forward to our first elementary Battle of the Scholars competition. Sincerely yours, Battle of the Scholars Committee WORD MASTERS CHALLENGE Many Knox County Elementary Schools will be participating in the WordMasters Analogy Challenge. This challenge is a national competition for students in grades 3-8 which encourages growth in vocabulary and verbal reasoning. Unlike other language-arts contests, which emphasize grammar and punctuation, this competition addresses higher-level word-comprehension and logical abilities and helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically. The competition does this in two ways: 1) It challenges students to solve analogies based on relationships among words they have learned, and
2) It draws these analogies from special vocabulary lists, which students have six weeks to study before each challenge.
There are 3 challenges held throughout the school year.For more information contact the Talented and Gifted teacher at your child's school. The Word Master words and definitions are listed in the Word Masters file on this site. |
Department Contacts
Department Links  HOAGIES' GIFTED EDUCATION PAGEHoagies' Gifted Education Page offers resources, articles, books and links for Parents, for Educators, Counselors, Administrators and other Professionals 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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