Gifted Goals

Parents often wonder, "What is the purpose of CHALLENGE?" Read my thinking, our Gifted Goals, and SC Best Practices below to understand the goals of the CHALLENGE Program and my class!

PRODUCTIVE STRUGGLE:

When  students  engage in  productive  struggle, persevering through problems while thinking flexibly, they move from surface learning to deep learning.   Rishi Sriram (Edutopia, 2020)

Productive Struggle Cultivates:

• advanced thinkers (those who apply, analyze, synthesize, evaluate)

• creative producers ( those who use fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration)

• independent learners (those who demonstrate skills inherent in discipline and task commitment)

Gifted Goals:

• To support mastery of core areas of learning at a pace, complexity, abstractness, and depth appropriate for gifted and talented learners

• To develop understanding of concepts, themes, and issues which are fundamental to the disciplines as well as society and to develop an appreciation for interrelationships among the disciplines

• To develop inquiry skills at a level of complexity, abstractness, and depth appropriate for gifted learners

• To develop the skills of critical and creative thinking, problem solving, and decision-making at a level of complexity, abstractness, and depth appropriate for gifted learners

• To develop proficiency in communicating abstract and complex ideas, relationships, and issues

SC Best Practices Guidelines:  

G/T Curriculum and Instruction

Student Outcomes: 

1. Students with gifts and talents will demonstrate growth commensurate with aptitude during the school year (NAGC 3.1). 

2. Students with gifts and talents will:

   1. Demonstrate comprehension of a discipline as a system of knowledge.

   2. Analyze the content of a discipline in terms of major concepts, themes, and issues of that discipline.

   3. Analyze a concept, theme, problem, or issue within and across disciplines by using the different perspectives of those disciplines.

   4. Analyze the ethical dimensions of ideas, issues, problems, and themes.

   5. Explain the dynamic nature of knowledge and the interaction between culture and knowledge.

3. Students with gifts and talents will:

   1. Explore, develop or research areas of interest and/or talent (NAGC 3.3.3).

   2. Utilize current research processes and procedures appropriate to the domain of learning.

4. Students with gifts and talents will:

   1. Demonstrate effective use of strategies and skills associated with creative and critical thinking models (Profile of SC Graduate, 2018; NAGC 3.4.1 and 3.4.2).

   2. Demonstrate effective use of reasoning, problem solving and decision-making strategies (Profile of SC Graduate, 2018; NAGC 3.4.3).

   3. Utilize metacognitive strategies to analyze and monitor assumptions or errors in thinking (Profile of SC Graduate, 2018; NAGC 3.2.2).

   4. Evaluate the quality and appropriateness of arguments, lines of reasoning and solutions in terms of both ethical and intellectual standards. 

5. Students with gifts and talents will:

   1. Communicate and demonstrate transformation of learning through the creation of products and presentations appropriate for both content and audience.

   2. Analyze and evaluate the quality, effectiveness and substantive content of products and presentations.  

Updated by SC: 2018