Aim (K-3)

Overview

Pull-out services for a small selection of students who meet the critera for identification as having the potential for advanced academic, intellectual, and/or creative abilities. These are students who have demonstrated abilities that significantly surpass their local, chronological age peers. 

Pull-out Periods & Expectations

This group will meet once weekly. Students will be pulled from a regular class or WINN period. It is expected that students attend pull-out for each scheduled period. Students will need to make up any work they miss from their class period and are expected to maintain class requirements/expectations in order to continue in the pull-out program.

Skill Development

• Students will engage in project-based learning opportunities that enable the development of higher-order thinking skills like critical thinking, problem solving, analyzing, applying, and logical reasoning. 

• Collaboration, creativity, and social-emotional skills will also be strengthened. 

• Students will complete activities that challenge them, relate to the real world, and promote a diverse exploration of skills and topics. They will be pushed to reach their full potential, while recognizing the role they play in their education and community.

Thematic Units

Bibliotherapy, or the use of children's stories to present a main theme will be incorporated throughout each unit. The pull-out program is inclusive of diverse thematic units to extend student knowledge, reach interest in a range of topics, and develop higher-level thinking skills including:

• Creativity

• Language/Literacy

• Mathematics/Problem Solving

• Logical Reasoning

• Engineering