Schoolwide Enrichment Program

Appropriate Pacing: includes instructional and organizational strategies which allow students to advance at a pace which provides steady challenge: to place students at the appropriate instructional level and to provide opportunities that challenge every student to achieve his or her highest potential at a rate appropriate to him or her.

Schoolwide Enrichment: Includes experiences or activities that are above or beyond the "regular curriculum."

*Variety of disciplines

*Skills and processes

*Professional behavior in research and the arts

*Enrich all students

*Higher Level Thinking

*Develop gifted behaviors

Type I Exposure: authors, speakers, artists, debates, films, displays, field trips.

Type II Process Skills that promote learning, feeling, and thinking (cognitive and affective skill training; learning how to learn skills; using research skills and reference materials; written, oral and visual communication skills.

What Makes Giftedness: Ability--Creativity--Task Commitment

"The development of gifted behaviors should be viewed as the goal of a schoolwide enrichment program rather than as a pre-existing condition."

Type III Advanced Level Investigations and Productions that are student initiated, centered on a real purpose and product and ultimately presented to a real audience.

Affective Support: support includes the identification, monitoring and provision of support services.