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Offered through the Bagwell College of Education, Â鶹´«Ã½y’s online Gifted Education Certificate is based on the philosophy that gifted children and youth exist within all ethnic, geographic, and socioeconomic groups and are individually unique with differing abilities; that creativity is a universal potential to be nurtured and enhanced; and that children should be provided a variety of educational opportunities designed to foster maximum development personal actualization.

Â鶹´«Ã½â€™S online Gifted Education Certificate is a State Board of Education (SBOE) approved program. Students in this fully online graduate certification program will take 12 credit hours. Courses are offered on a rotating basis. Students may begin the sequence in either Summer or Fall semester.

The State Board of Education grants in-field endorsement. To add Gifted In-Field, an applicant should possess a professional certificate at the bachelor’s or higher certification level in any teaching field. Students may either be pursuing a graduate degree in another Â鶹´«Ã½ program or department or may apply to the graduate school for non-degree status.

You must have a valid teaching certificate in order to be eligible for this certificate in Georgia. A teaching certificate is valid only in the state for which it is issued.

NOTE: Please be aware that the last course in this sequence is an out-of-pocket expense since it cannot qualify as an elective.