Standard Three: Differentiated Curriculum & Instruction
The LEA employs challenging, rigorous, and relevant curriculum and instruction K-12 to accommodate a range of academic, intellectual, and emotional needs of gifted learners.
At Murrayville, the curriculum may be extended, enriched, and/or accelerated to meet the needs of children performing above grade level. Classroom teachers work closely with the Gifted Education Specialist to ensure that content, process, product and learning environment are meaningfully differentiated and appropriately challenging. In order to best meet each student’s individual needs, service delivery is multi-faceted and flexible. Please see service delivery options below for a few of the many possibilities.
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.
Third Grade AIG
All third grade students participate in the nurturing program for the first nine weeks of the year. Once students are identified for AIG services, they are pulled in small groups with AIG the AIG teacher. AIG resource classes meet during the WIN block. 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 30 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.
The AIG program at Murrayville Elementary School follows the Elementary School AIG Service Framework for New Hanover County Schools.