Gifted and Talented at Northeast Elementary

What is Gifted and Talented at Northeast Elementary?

At Northeast, we create ALP plans for students that have gone through a gifted identification process and qualify.  The ALP is written with the Gifted Education Coordinator (Sunni Gibbons) in collaboration with classroom teachers, students and parents.  The ALP formalizes the differentiation that the classroom teacher does for the students in their identified area(s) as well as affective needs. 

At Northeast, we value and support the depth and complexity of knowledge, not just what grade level a concept may be.  Gifted students are put into Cluster Groups with other gifted students for peer connections. Each grade level has a classroom/classrooms in which students are clustered. All students in our building read and write at their highest independent level.  Sometimes additional grouping is needed in the area of mathematics. Some strategies that we use to meet needs at our building are: Flexible Grouping in Reading and Math, Content Acceleration, Independent Study, Curriculum Compacting, and Blended Learning.  

Gifted students also meet with the Gifted Education Facilitator to develop goals and skills to work on in the classroom. We meet to create a student's academic goals and affective needs (social emotional development) goals.  Mrs. Gibbons also pulls groups during our school EAGLE time for each grade level to provide enrichment and extensions.