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Welcome to Gifted Support
 Gifted Support Program
The mission of middle school gifted education is to advance, enrich, and/or extend student learning with careful thought to the intellectual, emotional, social, and affective strengths and needs of individuals engaged in independent and group learning environments. Unique learning experiences in core and/or encore classes are designed to stimulate curiosity and enhance intellectual and creative thinking skills.
Teacher contact: Mrs. Phyllis R. Smith, M.Ed. - email: psmith@nhsd.org
215-862-0608, ext. 1501 - Room 501
Grade 6 : Advanced RELA: WordMasters Analogyy and Literature Challenges, Junior Great Books Short Stories and Novels, Critical Reading and Writing,
* MathCounts Compettion
Grades 7/8: Exploratory Gifted Options: Future Cit/Sim City 4000, Videography/Media Ethics, Opera Study, Independent Research and/or Writing Workshop
Extra-Curricular Opportunities
MathCounts ; 24 Challenge; WordMasters Analogy and Literature Challenges; Future City Competition; Odyssey of the Mind; “Youth to Youth” Seminars; and also a variety of Leadership, Service, Athletic , and Spirit clubs offered at the Middle Level.
KEY PRINCIPLES OF GIFTED CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION
Curriculum
- Organized to be more elaborate in scope
- Complex
- In-depth study of major ideas
- Themes integrate knowledge within and across disciplines
- Stresses demonstrated strengths and interests, both individual and group
- Extends core learning, using both acceleration and enrichment
- Exposes students to specialized resources
- Recognizes relationships and arrive at generalizations
- Provides higher level thinking, creatively, and problem solving challenges
- Sets high standards and demands rigorous expectations for student work and performance
Instruction
- Real, Rigorous and Connected
- Creative
- Stresses application of productive thinking skills and critical thinking (Blooms Taxonomy: application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation skills )
- Flexibly paced and matched to student’s ability, motivation, interest, style, and pre-assessment data
- Emphasis on Learner’s Stylist Application through Gardener’s Multiple Intelligences
- Implements Bloom’s High Order Thinking skills; application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation
- Affective in nature to consider social and emotional intelligences
- Encourages individual strengths
- Daily participation period with peers; discussing and learning together !
*Resources and Materials:
- Advanced Reading and Writing
- Individualized Student Projects
- Constructive, Student –Centered Approach
- Peer and Self Reflection and Evaluation
- Field experts visit the classroom
- Digital and Video Cameras, PCs and Library Computer Lab Access
- Challenging Competitions, i.e., Future Cities, Word Masters, MathCounts, 24 Challenge, etc.
- Exploratory Field Trips to Museums, University Campuses, Local Artists and Architects, TV Studios, Academy of Music, etc
- Library Access to Literary Classics, Periodicals, Research Materials and Computer Lab
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