4. Teachers with Gifted Endorsement

LEWIS-CLARK ELEM SCHOOL (K - 5)

WOOD RIVER-HARTFORD ESD 15

Current Principal

Ms. Jill Christeson

Current District Superintendent

Dr. Patrick Anderson

Address

501 E LORENA AVE

WOOD RIVER IL 62095

(618) 254-4354

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Teachers with Gifted Endorsement

Teachers interested in demonstrating that they have the skills to respond to the needs of gifted students in their classrooms can take steps to qualify as a Gifted Education Teacher or Gifted Education Specialist in the State of Illinois. These are considered Endorsements, additional formal indicators of specialization that teachers can obtain to add to their Professional Educator Licenses. Learn More 

 

To obtain an endorsement as a Gifted Education Specialist, a candidate must:

  • Hold an Illinois professional educator license endorsed in a teaching field

  • Present evidence of two years of teaching experience on the Illinois professional educator license or a comparable out-of-state license involving the education of gifted students

  • Hold a master's degree or higher awarded by a regionally accredited institution of higher education

  • Complete a state-approved K-12 gifted education specialist program at a regionally-accredited institution of higher education (use form 73-05GPDF Document to verify program completion)

  • Includes clinical experiences with five or more students in both PK- grade 8 AND grades 9-12, and work with at least one student enrolled in PK-grade 8 and one student enrolled in grades 9-12.

  • Pass the Gifted Specialist content test (312)

To obtain an endorsement as a Gifted Education Teacher, a candidate must complete:

  • 18 semester hours of credit with coursework in each of the following areas:

    • characteristics of the field of gifted education as it pertains to gifted children, including their cognitive, creative and affective development

    • the wide range of ways in which a child is gifted; issues and practices in identifying and serving gifted children; and the manner in which assessment data shape decisions about identification, learning progress and outcomes

    • theoretical and research-based data necessary for the development of programs, curriculum and instructional sequences for gifted children, especially those serving gifted students from diverse populations

    • A Practicum

  • Gifted Education (NES) (312) test