What are the Washington State definitions of highly capable students and their unique needs?
The state defines a highly capable student (WAC 392-170-035; 036) as a student who exhibits high capability in intellectual and/or creative areas, possesses an unusual leadership capacity, or excels in specific academic fields, who requires services beyond the basic programs provided by schools. Outstanding abilities are present in students from all cultural groups, across all economic strata, and in all areas of human endeavor. Highly capable students generally possess these learning characteristics: • Capacity to learn with unusual depth of understanding, to retain what has been learned, and to transfer learning to new situations; • Capacity and willingness to deal with increasing levels of abstraction and complexity earlier than their chronological peers; • Ability to make unusual connections among ideas and concepts; • Ability to learn very quickly in their area(s) of intellectual strength; • Capacity for intense concentration and/or focus. For current definitions from the field of
The state defines a highly capable student (WAC 392-170-035; 036) as a student who exhibits high capability in intellectual and/or creative areas, possesses an unusual leadership capacity, or excels in specific academic fields, who requires services beyond the basic programs provided by schools. Outstanding abilities are present in students from all cultural groups, across all economic strata, and in all areas of human endeavor.
