The report contains presentations delivered at the Rhode Island State Department of Education's conference dealing with the identification of gifted students, the importance of pupil personnel services in programs for gifted youth, and the need for an interdisciplinary approach (administrators, counselors, classroom teachers, educational specialists) in programs for gifted students. Included are brief opening remarks by several participants, a keynote address on broadening the concept of giftedness, and a presentation on the counselor's role in the education of gifted children. Also provided are panel reactions to and excerpts from two demonstration sessions. In the first lesson students were given a lesson based on B. Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives (lesson plan included); in the second, techniques for eliciting expressions of students' feelings were explored. It is noted that a video tape of the instructional and counseling demonstrations is available through the State Department of Education. (GW)