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ABC Recommended Special Education Program Standards

A special education program for pupils who are gifted must be based on abilities and needs identified at the IPRC.

The program must specify in specific terms

• what is to be accomplished
• the mechanisms and way in which these will be accomplished
• evidence of pupil learning outcome

"Special education program" means, in respect of an exceptional pupil, an educational program that is based on and modified by the results of continuous assessment and evaluation and that includes a plan containing specific objectives and an outline of educational services that meets the needs of the exceptional pupil. Education Act (Ontario) (Sec. 1(1(63)).

Programming requires differentiation of curriculum in the areas of content, process, product and evaluation which is beyond those normally provided in the regular classroom in kind, breadth, depth and pace (Programming for the Gifted. 1985. Ontario Ministry of Education. Differentiation matrix: p.31-34)

The program must include affective (social-emotional) and cognitive (intellectual -academic) components.

In a part-time withdrawal delivery model there must be program modifications occurring in both settings as a pupil is not "gifted part-time".

The program should concentrate on the reduction or elimination of obstacles affecting the process of learning and should enable each individual to reach towards their potential

The on-going evaluation of the success of the program must always consider the growth of the pupil - intellectually, physically, socially and emotionally.

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