GT Services

GT Services

Planned Experiences: K-2 Classroom

Planned Experiences are lessons designed to develop and reveal advanced creative and critical thinking skills. They are presented and assessed by the campus GT facilitator in grade level classrooms. All K-2 grade students participate in Planned Experiences throughout the school year. Students with products that indicate emerging GT potential will be monitored by the GT facilitator and the classroom teacher for curriculum differentiation needs.

LISD and TPSP Research Projects: Grades 3-5 Pull Out

LISD Project Based Learning and Texas Performance Standards Projects (TPSP) are nine week, advanced level research units, designed to develop sophisticated products and/or performances in areas of interest for a targeted audience. Topics include the following:

Grade 2 Enrichment activities designed to develop critical, creative, & logical thinking.

Grade 3 Expressions, Media Analysis, Unsolved Mysteries, and Surviving Disasters

Grade 4 Overcoming Adversity, Signs & Symbols, Design, More Bang for My Buck

Grade 5 Perceptions of Self, Leaders & Communication, Innovations, Make a Difference

Thinking Skills: Grades 3-5 Pull Out

Thinking Skills activities are designed to develop critical, creative, and logical thinking in the GT classroom by the campus GT facilitator. Examples of activities include logic and word puzzles, analogies, Sudoku, creativity tasks, iPad apps, manipulative puzzles, and nonfiction reading materials.