The ENCORE Programs allow opportunities for identified students to voluntarily participate in activities specifically designed to motivate and challenge. Parents may choose to not have their eligible child in the ENCORE Program by declining participation.
While participating in the ENCORE Program, students may miss activities and/or assignments from their classroom teachers. Students should be required to complete only the class work necessary to be prepared for the next day’s class and maintain progress. Collaboration between gifted education staff and the classroom teacher will provide the time necessary for students to maintain their regular classroom assignments. The goal is to have the gifted students “keep-up” not “make-up” the work. Classroom teachers are expected to be flexible and selective in assigning homework and makeup work for classes missed because of gifted education classes.
Gifted services are designed to supplement and build on the basic academic skills and knowledge learned in regular classrooms at all grade levels. The regular school curriculum requires mastery of subject areas that are reflected in our district grading policy. The gifted education program strives to create an environment of self-evaluation combined with teacher guidance, allowing the students to experience a variety of non-graded learning opportunities.
Identified students in Young School will meet with the ENCORE teacher for eighty minutes during the six-day cycle. Students will be pulled out in small groups to permit greater student/teacher and student/student interaction.
Identified students in Fountain Woods School will meet with the ENCORE teacher for 1.5 to 2 hours during the five-day cycle. Students will be pulled out in small groups to permit greater student/teacher and student/student interaction.
Identified students in Burlington Township Middle School at Springside will meet with the ENCORE teacher for three forty-five minute periods during a six day cycle. ENCORE is part of the students’ related arts classes.
Identified students in Burlington Township High School will schedule classes based on appropriate need.
The gifted education program provides a rigorous and challenging curriculum for identified students; therefore, it is recommended that students attend their scheduled gifted class at the scheduled time. Elementary teachers will avoid scheduling major events during pullout times whenever possible. On days when students are scheduled for more than one non-graded class at a time, the following hierarchy of attendance should occur: IEP required classes (speech, guidance, OT, PT), assemblies (students attend with their homeroom teacher), gifted education class, computers/library. During a scheduling conflict all teachers will work together to ensure students receiving gifted services meet the objectives of all elementary curriculums.
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