Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Gifted program In a school district beginning a gifted and talented program, a teacher must choose four students to recommend for the program from her class, but she has five potential candidates. The parent of one of the students has threatened her if she does not recommend his daughter. How should she respond? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I agree, the most important thing to do first is to share the threat with your administration. There is a criteria in place to test gifted children and recommendation to the program should be based on meeting the criteria and definitely not by feelings based on threats. However, in the case that this student is highly gifted and needs to be provided with this service, it would be detrimental to her to be kept from the gifted program. I observe all students and provide them with a variety of assessments to assist with deciding whether they actually qualify for meeting the standards to be tested for the gifted program. Base who you recommend on pre-qualifying assessments that would lead to the recommendation.