Friendship • Union • Waldoboro • Warren • Washington
Karina Decker karina_decker@msad40.org
Sammie Burke samantha_burke@msad40.org
Goals and Objectives of the Gifted and Talented Program
Goals:
To help students develop a growth mindset
To help student become creative, divergent thinkers.
To ensure that students can pursue their passions, and to continue to achieve and perform at the highest levels of their potential.
To provide opportunities for students to have intellectual challenge through regular interaction with other like -ability students.
2. Objectives:
To facilitate students’ recognition of their strengths and needs. To encourage them to take risks and to help students to develop individual responsibility for their learning, self management, and social skills.
To provided students with opportunities to develop logical reasoning, critical thinking skills, analytical thought, and problem solving.
To provide individualized learning opportunities tailored to student needs and interests through consultation, differentiation, pullout services, acceleration, and enrichment opportunities.
To implement cluster grouping, flexible grouping and acceleration opportunities in strength areas to assure students are grouped with others who have similar strengths.