ADVANCING EDUCATION
​IN OREGON

The giving season has arrived.
​Please help OATAG meet our goal of raising $1000.00 this year.

OATAG advocates for the needs of talented and gifted children, serves as a resource for families, educators, and communities, and provides direction for excellence in education. OATAG provides a yearly conference for educators and parents with nationally recognized speakers. OATAG has a new program to award up to three $150.00 grants to assist local students augment and enrich their education. 
Facebook is once again matching donation made to charitable organizations on Giving Tuesday, December 3rd.  Please help us meet our goal by donating on Facebook.  You can also donate to OATAG through our Donorbox website year round
You can also help OATAG while doing your Holiday Shopping at Amazon.  To find out how visit our Donate Page.
2019 OATAG Conference Presentations can be found at: Archives / Conference Archives /2016 to 2019 / 2019, October 26th, Clackamas Community College - Celebrating Neurodiversity.  Presentations will be added when we receive them.

OATAG

  • ​Advocates for the needs of talented and gifted children
  • Serves as a resource for families, educators, and communities
  • Provides direction for excellence in education

​​Do you know a child who demonstrates these characteristics?

  • Has advanced oral and/or written language skills; expressive language?
  • Makes unique connections; understands systems; see the "big picture"?
  • Ask many questions; seek in-depth information?
  • Is resourceful at finding unique solutions?
  • Exhibits keen powers of observation; is highly sensitive and insightful?
  • Has broad, intense, varied and sustained interests, sometimes simultaneously; transfers learning to new situations?
  • Exhibits an early moral concern; is empathetic?
  • Is nonconforming; risk-taking; independent?
  • Makes non-traditional responses and/or products​?
Then you may know a child who is Talented & Gifted!

​​What does it mean to be identified as TAG?

Purpose:   TAG serves students who, when compared with others of their age/grade level, require learning experiences beyond the standard curriculum. TAG programs seek to provide an educational experience at the student's rate and level of learning.

Referral:   Students may be referred for TAG identification and testing by a teacher, parent, or they may refer themselves. In addition, they may be automatically identified through standardized state test scores.

Identification:   Oregon students qualify for TAG when they are in the top 3% on any nationally normed test of achievement or aptitude and there is additional evidence suggesting high ability. A committee in each building identifies students for TAG. Parents have a right to appeal this decision.

Programs and Services:   The curriculum and instruction provided to identified TAG students must address their accelerated rate of learning and their advanced level of learning as determined by assessments.​
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2019-2020 Student Grants
Application Period Now Closed
In order to supplement the learning opportunities of talented and gifted students, OATAG wishes to assist local students to augment and enrich their education by awarding grants.
For more information go to the Student Grants home page.