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Meeting Unique Needs
Meeting Unique Needs
MTSD has established the Voyagers/Expeditions Program. This program will be grounded in a concept called Genius Hour, which encourages students to pursue personal areas of interest while fostering design and divergent thinking skills.
This program is not designed to address academic enrichment in the core content areas. If you have any concerns about your child's needs, you should first reach out to your student's teacher(s).
The Strengthening Gifted Education Act, established the following requirements for school districts:
To develop an identification process for identifying gifted and talented students in order to identify student strengths in various intellectual abilities, creativity, or in specific academic areas
To develop and document appropriate curricular and instructional modifications used for gifted and talented students, indicating modifications to content, process, products, and learning environment.
To consider the Pre-K-Grade 12 Gifted Programming Standards
To provide the time and resources to develop, review, and enhance instructional tools for helping gifted and talented students acquire and demonstrate mastery of the required knowledge and skills specified by the standards at the instructional level of the student
To actively assist and support the professional development of teachers, educational service staff, and school leaders in the area of gifted and talented instruction.
"As defined by this act, 'Gifted and Talented' means a student who possesses or demonstrates a high level of ability in one or more content areas when compared to his chronological peers in the school district and who requires modifications of his educational program if he is to achieve in accordance with his capabilities. Students are reassessed annually for placement in this program.
What might gifted look like?
What might gifted look like?
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