Dual Credit
AP courses
Honors Courses in MS and HS
Gifted and Talented Courses and Curriculum
GT Testing
Advanced Testing
Creates a culture that sees all students as capable of advanced coursework
Supports students and families by providing awareness of all options in pursuit of long-term goals
Ensures challenging and transferable learning experiences that promote problem-solving and critical thinking
Builds partnerships with community and higher education
Nurtures and mentors all students to develop a growth mindset
Removes barriers that inhibit students from enrolling in advanced academics
Elicit - Access and ascertain prior knowledge and understanding
Teacher can frame “what do you think” questions.
Engage - Generate enthusiasm and stimulate interest and thinking
Teacher can surprise students, get students thinking, or raise questions through compelling demonstrations or presentations.
Explore - Provide opportunities to observe, record data, design experiments, interpret results, organize findings
Teacher can frame questions, suggest approaches, provide feedback, and assess understanding.
Explain - Introduce models, laws, and theories
Teacher can guide students toward generalizations and provide terminology and questions that help students explain their explorations.
Elaborate - Provide opportunities to apply knowledge to new domains
Teacher can introduce new variables and pose new questions/ scenarios in which students practice transfer of knowledge.
Evaluate - Provide formative and summative assessment opportunities, including self-reflection
Teacher can conduct ongoing assessment of student learning through all phases.
Extend - Provide additional challenges that allow students to apply knowledge
Teachers can provide new contexts for application of knowledge that allow students to go one step further.
For more information on the 7E model, see Eisencraft, A. (2003). Expanding the 5E model. The Science Teacher, 70(6), pp. 56–59. Retrieved from http://its-about-time.com/htmls/ap/eisenkrafttst.pdf