Program Overview

• • • Understanding “giftedness”

    • Developing Self-understanding and Self-evaluation (IEP goals, SMART 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, and Touchpebbles programs

    • Utilizing the writing process and a six-traits writing framework 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

· opportunities for service-learning projects

· research and presentations/sharing with the community