The LEA employs challenging, rigorous, and relevant curriculum and instruction K-12 to accommodate a range of academic, intellectual, social and emotional needs of gifted learners.
Information on the AIG program at Pine Valley can be found on a powerpoint linked on the home page of this website. Weekly updates on what enrichment and AIG students are doing are posted weekly on the Weekly Newsletters page of this website.
K-2 Nurturing Program
The K-2 Nurturing Program has the Gifted Education Specialist teaching 15 whole-class lessons to all students in Kindergarten, First, and Second Grades throughout the school year. Utilizing the "PETS" curriculum, K-2 students work through lessons on Multiple Intelligences, Convergent and Divergent Thinking, Spatial Reasoning, Evaluative Thinking, Creativity, and Inventive Thinking. When these lessons are completed small groups may be pulled by the Gifted Specialist.
Third Grade AIG
All third grade students participate in the nurturing program for the first nine weeks of the year. When students are identified for AIG services then students are pulled into AIG resource classes. AIG resource classes meet during Intervention time 5 times a week. Resources to be used include but are not limited to: Jacob's Ladder, Junior Great Books, Word Masters, Problem Solver, Socratic Seminars, Interact Simulations, affective curriculum, Challenge Math, and various academic competitions.
Fourth and Fifth Grade AIG
Students identified for the AIG Program are pulled into groups by the Gifted Education Specialist every day for 40 minutes. Resources to be used include but are not limited to: Jacob's Ladder, Junior Great Books, Word Masters, Problem Solver, Socratic Seminars, Interact Simulations, affective curriculum, Challenge Math, and various academic competitions.
Gifted students are AIG all day, every day. In order to meet theses students’ needs, collaboration among all staff is essential when developing appropriate curriculum and instruction. Practices can be used that differentiate content, process or product and can be evidenced in a variety of ways including: interest inventories, research, project based learning, flipped classroom, utilizing Thinking Maps to facilitate student learning, small group instruction, tiered assignments, independent learning contracts, simulations and compacting curriculum.
The North Carolina DPI AIG wiki offers lessons written specifically for academically and/or intellectually gifted students. These lessons are called IRP (instructional resources project) lessons and can be found on the NC AIG wiki at http://ncaigirp.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/home. Lessons are organized by content area and grade levels. Make sure to check the site regularly because new lessons are being added.