Short description: This session unveils and addresses critical issues relating to the career and vocational development of gifted students. Aligning with NAGC's effort to make “equity and serving diverse students a priority,” this presentation explores the research, equity, and biases related to career and vocational development and programs for gifted students. The agrarian and vocational culture of Indiana makes this presentation particularly relevant.
Learning Outcomes: Participants will:
Gain needed awareness of the inequities in serving an underserved population of gifted students (i.e., students who have non-traditional gifted interests such as desires for vocations in the trades or what is viewed as blue collar or other non-traditional gifted careers)
Learn to address the biases and inequities in gifted education against vocational education and training fields that do not align with typical gifted programs or curricula
Learn to better evaluate the equity of the programs they provide and not just better equity of the admissions to the programs provided
Consider expanding program offerings for other non-traditional gifted career and vocational fields, which, in turn, eliminates bias as it currently exists