Referral | Screening | Evaluation | Placement

Placement

If the student is identified gifted, an IEP conference will be scheduled so that he or she can be placed into the gifted program.

The IEP Conference

Once a student has been identified as gifted, educational personnel with input from the parent(s) and student must develop an individualized educational program (IEP) for that student. An IEP conference is scheduled which includes the parent(s) or legal guardian, the Gifted teacher(s), the student, input from the student’s regular education teacher, the officially designated representative (ODR) of the school system and others who may help implement the IEP.

At this conference, those involved will discuss the student’s proposed placement and present levels of performance. Additional information will be obtained from forms completed by the student and the regular education teacher. Goals and objectives should be based upon the student’s strengths, interests, and aptitudes and are selected from a computer-generated IEP developed for the Calcasieu Parish gifted program. The teacher selects appropriate methods of measurement for each goal.

The IEP committee will be asked to sign to indicate presence. The parent(s)/guardian will be asked to sign to indicate agreement with the proposed educational program and placement. A student must have a current IEP in order to be served by the gifted program.