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Gifted education (also known as gifted and talented education (GATE), talented and gifted programs (TAG), or G&T education) is a sort of education used for children who have been identified as gifted or talented.
The main approaches to gifted education are enrichment and acceleration. An enrichment program teaches additional, deeper material, but keeps the student progressing through the curriculum at the same rate as other students. For example, after the gifted students have completed the normal work in the curriculum, an enrichment program might provide them with additional information about a subject. An acceleration program advances the student through the standard curriculum faster than normal. This is normally done by having the students skip one to two grades.
Being gifted and talented usually means being able to score in the top percentile on IQ exams. The percentage of students selected varies, generally with 10% or fewer being selected for gifted education programs. However, for a child to have distinct gifted abilities it is to be expected to score in the top one percent of students.
Wikipedia, “Gifted education” (retrieved 22 Dec 2024)
Many people who participated in various Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) programs, especially in the USA, report shared experiences, including strange phenomena such as selective memory loss of the program or strange tests and activities.
This website is for those who were a part of these programs and others interested in them.
Intro FAQs
- What are some of the things people remember about the GATE programs?
All kinds of stuff. (More coming soon.)
- What is/was the GATE Program?
What this site refers to as a/the “GATE program(s)” is any of various “Gifted and Talented” school programs that created a different experience for students testing in the top percentile of certain tests. More information on these from Wikipedia . Here, we are primarily talking about the programs in the USA, but not limited there.
- What is the purpose of this site?
This website has several interrelated purposes including:
- Providing information on the activities that happened in these programs
- Providing a community for people who were in these programs
- Providing a clearing house for information regarding the activities we did
- Exploring what we learned/experienced and how it affected us
- Exploring how we might continue and/or adapt what we learned for today for ourselves and others
- Shed some light on the weirdness in our memories.
- I was in a GATE program. How can I join the community?
Community membership is always free, though we do appreciate any monetary support you can throw at this project.
We will soon add a paid “premium” account option with added benefits for our supporters.
You can join the community here .
- What kind of weirdness?
For the moment I’ll let Jake explain it.
