--Students are served through the following:
- –Differentiated Instructional Units
- –In-Class Flexible Grouping
- –Cluster Grouping
- –Co-Teaching
A variety of resources are used to provide appropriate instruction to students with gifted needs.
Some of these resources include:
Some of these resources include:
Language ArtsJourneys and Destinations:
This unit uses an inquiry-based approach to investigate literature in an interdisciplinary, multicultural curriculum. The guiding theme of this unit is the recognition of change as a concept that affects people and their relationships to the world around them. An open-ended approach to the discussion process is emphasized in the search for meaning in literature selections such as Aesop’s fables, The Green Book, Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain, and "The Ugly Duckling." Vocabulary development, writing activities, oral communication, research, and reasoning are integrated into the unit. 1998 Winner of a National Association for Gifted Children Curriculum Division Award for Outstanding Curriculum Patterns of Change: The concept of cyclic patterns of change was chosen as the unifying theme for this unit. Selected literary works deal with cycles in nature, knowledge, history, and human life. Students are introduced to some of the important approaches and ideas of literary criticism. Students are encouraged to use journals, literature webs, essays, and visual projects to organize and express their ideas about various literary selections. Works studied in the unit include Conrad’s My Daniel, “The Helpful Badger” by Lawrence Yep, and poetry by Dickinson, Sandburg, Angelou, and Shakespeare. Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program The Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program targets reading comprehension by moving students through an inquiry process from basic understanding to critical analyses of texts, using a field-tested method developed by the Center for Gifted Education at The College of William and Mary. Students will learn to comprehend and analyze any reading passage after completing the activities in Jacob's Ladder. |
MathHands-On Equations
Hands-On Equations is algebra for elementary and middle school students. This visual and kinesthetic instructional system developed by Dr. Henry Borenson enables students to easily and enjoyably learn essential algebraic concepts and skills. Dr. Borenson received a U.S. patent for his teaching invention. Beyond Base Ten This unit will investigate the concept of place value and the representation of numbers by using place value and non-place value systems. Number bases other than Base 10 will be featured, especially through historical contexts of early civilizations that developed number systems that are different from the one we use today. Becoming a Problem Solving Genius: A Handbook of Math Strategies by Edward Zacarro "Every math student needs a tool belt of problem solving strategies to call upon when solving word problems. In addition to many traditional strategies, this book includes new techniques such as Think 1, the 2-10 method, and others developed by math educator Ed Zacarro. Each unit contains problems at five levels of difficulty to meet the needs of not only the average math student, but also the highly gifted." |