Gifted Endorsement: NEFEC/FDLRS ONLY Nature and Needs of Gifted Students

Online registration closed on Sun, Jan 12, 2020.

Mon, January 13, 2020 - Sun, March 8, 2020

Contact April Padgett (former staff)
Target Audience Limited to ONLY teachers in Baker, Bradford, Flagler, Putnam, St. Johns, Union and FSDB
In-Service Points 60
Delivery Online (Moodle)
Fee none
Nature and Need of Gifted Students provides an overview of the evolution of gifted education on the national, state and local level. Major events affecting gifted education are described as well as major policies, and procedures governing the delivery of gifted education. Cognitive, social, and emotional characteristics common to individuals who are gifted are identified along with strategies that can be used to met the academic needs of different categories of students who are gifted.

This online course is one of the five courses required for Gifted Endorsement. Participants will spend approximately 6-8 hours per week on course work.

An email will be sent to each participant with login information and directions for accessing the course through Moodle, NEFEC's course management system, by 4:30 PM on the start date of the course. Please check your Spam folder if you have not received login by that time. If you do not find it, contact elearning@nefec.org, to verify your email and to have the information resent.

The required textbook for this course is Growing Up Gifted, Barbara Clark, 6th or 7th edition, Merrill Prentice Hall, 2002, ISBN 0130944378 or 0131185721.

We have a limited number of this text available to be checked out to participants through NEFEC. For more information on borrowing the text, contact eLearning@nefec.org.

NEFEC's courses are for inservice points and are not college level courses. The Florida Department of Education will not accept NEFEC's courses if they are submitted by an individual for recertification or endorsement. They must be submitted through a district as part of their approved Master Inservice Plan.

Participants are responsible for following their district’s requirements to obtain inservice credit and endorsement. If you are unsure if your district will accept courses offered through NEFEC, you will need to check with your district Staffing Development office.

FLDOE Note Regarding Endorsements: Per section 1012.575, F.S., only school districts have statutory authority to have state approved add-on endorsement programs whereby teachers can complete the endorsement requirements via inservice points. All other (including non-public) school teachers can add an endorsement to their certificate, but only through the college credit route. Private school teachers may take the "endorsement" courses offered for inservice points, but they won't be able to use them to add the endorsement to their certificate.

*NOTE: NEFEC Member districts include: Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Flagler, FSDB, FSU Lab School, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Hernando, Lafayette, Levy, Madison, Monroe, Nassau, PK Yonge, Putnam, Suwannee, Taylor, and Union.