Welcome

Welcome to the gifted and talented education section of the the Ministry of Education's website. We hope that at this site, you will find answers to many of your questions and the support you need for working with highly-able students.

"Gifted and talented children" means those persons between the ages of five and eighteen whose abilities, talents, and potential for accomplishment are so exceptional or developmentally advanced that they require special provisions to meet their educational programming needs.   Gifted students include gifted students with disabilities and students with exceptional abilities or potential from all socio-economic and ethnic, cultural populations.  Gifted students are capable of high performance, exceptional production, or exceptional learning behavior by virtue of any or a combination of these areas of giftedness:

• General or specific intellectual ability.
• Specific academic aptitude.
• Creative or productive thinking.
• Leadership abilities.
• Visual arts, performing arts, musical or psychomotor abilities.