What is Enrichment?
In a brief summary, enrichment includes activities teachers provide students that go beyond what is being taught in class. These activities are something different than what is being learned and go deeper than what students normally do in class. As a gifted student, they may have a tendency to think beyond what is being taught, to go deeper into the meaning, to think outside the box, to think down to the smallest part of the box, or to think as if the box isn’t even there. This is a representation of what gifted is, and this enrichment is needed through specially designed instruction to meet these needs. We want to make sure all gifted students are given opportunities to think in this regard and go deeper into materials through challenge and choice.
What is Project and Problem-Based Learning?
Project Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching method in which students learn by actively engaging in real-world and personally meaningful projects. Students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex question, problem, or challenge.
In Project Based Learning, teachers make learning come alive for students!
Students work on a project over an extended period of time, from a week up to a quarter/trimester that engages them in solving a real-world problem or answering a complex question! They demonstrate their knowledge and skills by creating a public product or presentation for a real audience.
As a result, students develop deep content knowledge as well as critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication skills. Project Based Learning unleashes a contagious, creative energy among students and teachers!
What is Project Based Learning? | PBLWorks
Agency-Based Challenges
Agency-based challenges allow students to create solutions to specific real-world problems. Student agency engages learning through activities that are meaningful and relevant to learners, driven by their interests, and often self-initiated. Each year, unique grade-level PBL challenges promote the application of the students' agency through various tasks, projects, and competitions! This includes partnering with the Stroud Water Research Center, The BCIU's STEM/Engineering competition, Master Watershed Steward's 'Trout in the Classroom', The Philadelphia Zoo's 'Unless Contest', the 'Future City' competition, 'Project Green Schools', and the 'What's So Cool About Manufacturing' digital storytelling contest. What is 'Student Agency'?
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-student-agency-is-ownership/2019/10