QUEST Curriculum

WHAT DO QUEST STUDENTS LEARN? 

Continuum: The skills taught in QUEST are structured in a spiraling curriculum, from Kindergarten through Grade Twelve, focusing on four key areas:

•  Creative Thinking Skills - what they are and how they are used to enhance learning

•  Critical Thinking Skills - what they are and how they apply to problem solving, decision making, and more in-depth learning 

• Research Skills - what they are, how they are used to explore issues and problems, and how findings or results are presented or reported to others. 

• Communication - clarity in written and spoken language to become effective communicators for a variety of audiences and purposes. Students experience these skills at an increasingly sophisticated level throughout the grades. The QUEST-G/T curriculum is interdisciplinary in nature, addressing students’ strengths and interests in the four content areas. Students’ interests and strengths are expanded through their ability to apply the skills to all disciplines. They are also given individual choices in selecting areas to study within the QUEST-G/T curriculum, including structured independent studies. 

Grades K-5 participate weekly in various interdisciplinary, project-based units of study under the direction and facilitation of the campus QUEST-G/T specialists. They also have access to support from the QUEST-G/T teachers through QUEST Lab, as available. 

HOW DO ALL STUDENTS LEARN SKILLS TAUGHT IN QUEST-G/T? 

1. The skills taught through the QUEST-G/T curriculum are not only for QUEST-G/T students. Classroom teachers incorporate these skills into the regular curriculum in an age-appropriate manner. The difference is in when the skills are introduced and in the pacing and depth at which they are applied. Training in the teaching of these skills and processes are available to all teachers. 

2. The QUEST-G/T teacher is available to serve all students through assisting classroom teachers in planning instruction, in presenting demonstration lessons or workshop sessions, in working with groups on special projects or skills and other areas as determined by campus need and QUEST-G/T teacher availability.