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Quality Utilization and Enrichment of Student Talents
Leander ISD's QUEST Program is designed to meet the needs of identified gifted students who have demonstrated above-average ability in the following two areas of giftedness as defined by the Texas State Plan for the Gifted: 1) High general-intellectual ability and the 95th percentile and creative and productive thinking. QUEST is available to LISD students in the elementary through high school grades.
The QUEST program is developmental in scope with the curriculum addressing core content areas through projects and units that cross multiple subject areas. QUEST students have the opportunity to investigate topics of interest in research skills taught through individual and group projects, studies and problem solving units.
The goals of QUEST are to develop and enable each student to:
Make choices based on self-knowledge of needs and interests and to assume responsibility for pursuing these interests;
Apply higher-level thinking skills of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation in the pursuit of knowledge;
Apply creativity skills of originality, fluency, flexibility and elaboration necessary to become independent thinkers and producers of new ideas;
Apply skills of logic and critical thinking necessary to engage in independent judgements and effective communication;
Apply research skills and task commitment necessary for successful independent study;
Internalize, through self assessment, the affective skills necessary for cooperative living in society while maintaining an integrated sense of self;
Apply the creative problem solving process to real-life situations; and,
Apply higher level thinking and problem solving skills necessary for success in specific subject mater areas.