- Understanding “giftedness”
- Developing Self-understanding and Self-evaluation (IEP goals)
- Developing social skills, better communication and interpersonal skills, becoming more comfortable with public speaking and formal presentations (both oral and written)
- Applying effort towards thinking skills, improving organization, taking responsibility for all educational opportunities, social skills, and self-discipline
- Building solid basis of mathematical ‘conceptual knowledge’: Hands-on projects, Hands –On –Equations, Interact programs (Math Quest, Athenian Secret, Game Factory, Algebra Mystery Maze, The Great Equation Race), word problems
- Developing critical thinking, reading and writing skills, and practicing shared inquiry discussions through Junior Great Books, Jacob’s Ladder, novel studies, and Touchpebbles programs
- Utilizing the writing process to develop writing skills and write meaningful pieces of writing
- Special Enrichment Units to include:
project-based learning related to units or involving interest areas
research and presentations/sharing with the community