Gifted Referral Information
ELEMENTARY
K-1: Our Gifted Support teachers co-teach in classes one-half hour per five-day cycle in each building. The Gifted Support teacher helps to identify candidates for screening and identification or works in a co-teaching situation for identified students.
2-5: We offer a pull-out/co-teach program for each grade level. Identified students in grades 2-3 receive a total of 1 hour and 30 minutes of pull-out classes during a five-day cycle. Identified students in grades 4 and 5 receive two hours of pull-out classes during a five-day cycle. The Gifted Support teacher meets small groups of students by grade level in order to facilitate extensions for the regular education curriculum. The Gifted Support teachers offer resource room time for students and co-teaching time for regular education teachers to support differentiated instructional strategies.
MIDDLE SCHOOL
6-8: The pull-out/co-teach model is also offered to our 6th grade students. Identified students receive approximately two hours and 20 minutes of pull-out classes during a six-day cycle. As in the elementary division, the Gifted Support teacher facilitates extensions of the regular education curriculum. In 7th grade, identified gifted students are scheduled for Gifted Seminar rather than a developmental reading class. This class meets three periods during a six-day cycle. The curriculum is designed to develop, foster, and enhance higher level thinking skills. In 8th grade, identified gifted students meet for a seminar during one semester replacing a scheduled health/wellness class. This class meets 3 days per 6-day cycle. The Gifted Support teachers at the Middle School will also monitor and consult with regular education teachers to provide resources and/or co-teach for differentiated instructional activities, projects and assessments.
HIGH SCHOOL
9-12: Our Gifted Advisors at the high school organize an Extended Learning Community (ELC). Students select from a menu of options (for either .5 credit or non-credit) depending upon their course selection and extra-curricular activities. Option choices include: enrichment cluster presentations; Critical Thinking Study Groups; Paideia Seminars with product connection and presentation; independent study; and mentorship. Students selecting independent study or mentorship opportunities are contracted to complete the work.
Students may also elect to take the Why Man Creates course offered to 10,11,12 graders for academic or honors credit.
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updated 1/22/09 |
