Program Overview

• • • Understanding “giftedness”

    • Developing self-understanding and self-evaluation (IEP goals, Gifted Strand goals)

    • Developing social skills, better communication and interpersonal skills; becoming more comfortable with public speaking and formal presentations (both oral and written); and developing leadership skills

    • Applying effort towards thinking skills, improving organization, taking responsibility for all educational opportunities, social skills, and self-regulation

    • Building solid basis of mathematical ‘conceptual knowledge’: Hands-on projects, Hands –On –Equations, Interact programs (Math Quest, Athenian Secret, Polaris, Game Factory, Algebra Mystery Maze, The Great Equation Race), multi-step word problems

    • Developing critical thinking, reading and writing skills, and practicing shared inquiry discussions through Junior Great Books, Jacob’s Ladder, and TouchPebbles programs

    • Developing creative thinking skills within weekly activities and projects

    • 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

·     opportunities for service-learning projects

·     research and presentations/sharing with the community