In Fl there is a gifted endorsement program...it is three to four classes.
In our county gifted students have to have contact with someone gifted endorsed daily or sometimes can participate in a consultation model (each teacher must have contact with an endorsed teacher and consult with him/her and student sees the consultant monthly or each marking period).
So at each elementary school at least one teacher is gifted endorsed in each grade (and this tends to lend to clustering in a specific class). A teacher in the process working on the endorsement counts.
In the middle school my son went to they had one whole team of teachers gifted endorsed and they grouped an entire class of 24 gifted kids as a unit and they moved from subject one to subject two, etc. as a unit...their electives were different though.
In high school honors and AP and consultation...eh they fall down there. My son was frustrated with the pace and quality of Spanish I he would have loved a harder version of that.
