ELP Priority Standards 2016
1.1 Students with gifts and talents demonstrate self-knowledge with respect to their interests, strengths, identities, and needs in socio-emotional development and in intellectual, academic, creative, leadership, and artistic domains.
1.2 Students with gifts and talents possess a developmentally appropriate understanding of how they learn and grow; they recognize the influences of their beliefs, traditions, and values on their learning and behavior.
1.3 Students with gifts and talents demonstrate understanding of and respect for similarities and differences between themselves and their peer group and others in the general population.
1.4 Students with gifts and talents access resources from the community to support cognitive and affective needs, including social interactions with others having similar interests and abilities or experiences, including same-age peers and mentors or experts.
1.5 Students with gifts and talents benefit from meaningful and challenging learning activities addressing their unique characteristics and needs.
1.6 Students with gifts and talents recognize their preferred approaches to learning and expand their repertoire.
1.7 Students with gifts and talents identify future career goals that match their talents and abilities and resources needed to meet those goals (e.g., higher education opportunities, mentors, financial support).
1.8 Cognitive and Affective Growth. Students with gifts and talents identify future career goals that match their talents and abilities and resources needed to meet those goals (e.g., higher education opportunities, mentors, financial support).
3.2 Students with gifts and talents become more competent in multiple talent areas and across dimensions of learning.
3.3 Students with gifts and talents develop their abilities in their domain of talent and/or area of interest.
3.4 Students with gifts and talents become independent investigators.
3.5 Culturally Relevant Curriculum. Students with gifts and talents develop knowledge and skills for living and being productive in a multicultural, diverse, and global society.
4.1 Students with gifts and talents demonstrate growth in personal competence and dispositions for exceptional academic and creative productivity. These include self-awareness, self advocacy, self-efficacy, confidence, motivation, resilience, independence, curiosity, and risk taking.
4.2 Students with gifts and talents develop social competence manifested in positive peer relationships and social interactions.
4.3 Students with gifts and talents demonstrate personal and social responsibility and leadership skills.
4.4 Students with gifts and talents value their own and others’ language, heritage, and circumstance. They possess skills in communicating, teaming, and collaborating with diverse individuals and across diverse groups. They use positive strategies to address social issues, including discrimination and stereotyping.
4.5 Students with gifts and talents develop competence in interpersonal and technical communication skills. They demonstrate advanced oral and written skills, balanced bi-literacy or multi-literacy, and creative expression. They display fluency with technologies that support effective communication.
5.7 Students with gifts and talents identify future career goals and the talent development pathways to reach those goals.