BCS AIG Goals

Grades 3-8 Talent Development and AIG Enrichment Classroom Goals 

*AIG specialists in grades 3-8 continue to augment and extend NCSCOS goals and objectives during enrichment class instruction. 

1. Gain awareness of themselves as individuals who have unique academic and social-emotional needs. 

2. Engage in meaningful work that strengthens independent, critical, and creative thinking skills. 

3. Foster independence in identifying and solving meaningful problems. 

4. Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively in increasingly complex contexts. 

5. Think critically about humankind and demonstrate social responsibility in a global community. 

6. Collaborate effectively with diverse teams to accomplish a common goal. 7. Commit to learning as a lifelong process and demonstrate accountability for one’s own learning. 

The AIG Program at Fairview Elementary

The AIG Program at Fairview Elementary serves students who demonstrate a need for academic enrichment and differentiated curriculum.  Formal identification (via standardized testing) begins in 4th grade.   BCS uses multiple criteria to determine the degree of need for differentiation.  The criteria include: aptitude (intelligence) testing, achievement testing, teacher observation of typical gifted characteristics, teacher documentation of the need for differentiation, student motivation, student grades, and work samples.

5th and 4th Grade AIG

• Enrichment groups with the gifted specialist with a curriculum designed for gifted students. Curriculum focuses on learning experiences that nurture creative and critical thinking skills. Students are also exposed to a variety of mathematical problem solving.  Units and activities are all aligned with NC New Essential Standards and Gifted Education Programming Standards. 

• Additional opportunities such as math enrichment groups or literacy groups.

• Students are formally nominated and service is required according to the AIG Plan. 

3rd Grade Talent Development 

• Referred by classroom teachers - groups are fluid and flexible based on classroom data,  need,  and potential. Groups change throughout the year; considered a nurturing group.  

• Curriculum focuses on literacy and mathematical problem solving as well as activities that nurture creative problem solving and critical thinking skills. Units and activities are all aligned with  NC New Essential Standards and Gifted Education Programming Standards. 

• Additional opportunities such as math enrichment (fluid and flexible group). 

2nd and 1st Grade Problem Solvers 

• Referred by classroom teachers - groups are fluid and flexible based on need and potential using a referral checklist of observed behaviors. No formal standardized testing is used to determine Problem-Solver groups. Groups change throughout the year; considered a nurturing group. 

• Curriculum focuses on literacy and mathematical problem solving as well as activities that nurture creative problem solving and critical thinking skills. Units and activities are all aligned with  NC New Essential Standards and Gifted Education Programming Standards. 

NOTES:

• Specialists are guided by the 2025 - 2028 Board approved AIG Plan.

• AIG Department participates in professional development at its monthly PLC’s. 

• AIG department leads an online AIG nurturing course each year for classroom teachers.

• Chris Schmidt chris.schmidt@bcsemail.org