Hello from #smithingifted!

Our Gifted Education Setting...

Creative and Inquiry-based Learning

*Provide young learners an environment to engage in learning and projects that are meaningful to them and elicit engagement, higher level learning, and joy

*Collaborate with peers to experiment, share, and celebrate ideas

*Develop a mindset that is comfortable with the discomfort of getting stuck

*Students engage in creative learning when they develop ideas or things that are meaningful to them or to others they care about.

*Creative Coding refers to creating learning experiences that involve coding and/or computing.

FOCUS: 

1) help each student understand their giftedness and how to get the most out of education 

2) Student-led research projects 

3) creative writing that creates a love of the written language

4) rigorous math concepts including Hands-on Equations, Beast Academy, and Continental Math League competition 

5) STEM/Robotics and 

6) Logic and critical thinking problems

"We adults should make it our concern to provide our students with the two things all children deserve: challenges to exceed what they were able to do yesterday and the support that makes that growth possible."  Angela Duckworth