The following DDSB schools offer full-time classes for gifted students:
Please contact the facilitator for gifted programming to discuss this. Placement in a self-contained gifted program will depend on availability and space. They can enter a self-contained gifted program in subsequent years. You may decide to keep your child in their regular school program initially. You can work with your child's teacher to determine the right placement.
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This is why we recommend placement in a full time gifted program. Intellectually gifted students often feel a lack of connection with their peer group in a mainstream setting. Self-contained classes for gifted students offer a space where your child can relate to their intellectual peer group.
If your child passes the gifted assessment, they won't need to write it again. There are group and individual assessment options. You can only nominate your child for assessment a maximum of 2 times with the DDSB. You can nominate your child for a gifted assessment if you think they exhibit above average ability, creative thinking or can make broad connections to seemingly unconnected things. Enter a self-contained class with other gifted students.Remain in their regular class placement at their home school with accommodations provided by their teacher.Durham District School Board (DDSB) provides program options for gifted students between Grades 4 and 12. Your child must be identified as gifted by an Identification, Placement and Review Committee (IPRC) in order to be placed in a gifted program. Learn more about the definition of giftedness from the Association for Bright Children of Ontario (ABC Ontario). Ontario Ministry of Education defines giftedness as an unusually advanced degree of general intellectual ability that requires differentiated learning experiences of a depth and breadth beyond those normally provided.