Talent Development and AIG Enrichment Classroom Goals - Grades 3-8 AIG Specialists in grades 3–8 continue to augment and extend NCSCOS goals and objectives during enrichment class instruction. Talent Development and AIG students are expected to: 

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

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

● Foster independence in identifying and solving meaningful problems. 

● Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively in increasingly complex contexts. 

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

● Collaborate effectively with diverse teams to accomplish a common goal. 

● Commit to learning as a lifelong process and demonstrate accountability for one's own learning. 

AIG specialists plan and implement lessons from each of the four AIG Curricular Strands: 

❖Social-Emotional Needs of Gifted Learners 

❖Humanities/ Literacy 

❖Mathematical/ Logical 

❖STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics)