Middle School Services

At the middle school level, gifted students are clustered in the areas in which they are identified. Students may self-select some courses that meet their individual needs in terms of rigor, intensity, subject matter, and career plans. This ensures placement with intellectual peers.  Students experience differentiated instruction that is aligned with curriculum standards and provides greater depth of content, advanced inquiry, and a high level of rigor and challenge.  The gifted resource teacher collaborates with the classroom teacher to facilitate differentiation of curriculum and instruction that includes research-based best practice and instructional models for gifted learners. Advanced level materials and curricular resources are available to all teachers. 

A push-in program allows gifted resource teachers to work with students in the regular classroom as part of the collaboration model.  This model also allows for co-teaching and modeling of instruction.  Pullout sessions for specific projects may focus on interdisciplinary instruction aligned with individual student strengths to provide gifted students with rigorous learning opportunities in a setting that includes academic peers.