• Gifted pupils in grades 3-6 receive site-based services.  Sites cluster pupils for flexible grouping. Content includes a broad based interdisciplinary curriculum that produces products that are varied and complex.

    • Specific examples of differentiated activities include:

      • Higher order thinking questioning, activities, and assessments

      • Socratic questioning strategies 

      • Independent Extension activities

      • Compacted curriculum

      • Tiered tasks

    Gifted pupils in grades 7-8 receive site-based services.  Sites cluster pupils for flexible grouping. 

    • Lessons for gifted pupils in grades 7-8 include:

      • Content:  Content is more abstract, complex, varied and accelerated, incorporating the Common Core State Standards and the English Language Learner Proficiency Standards to reach a higher level of proficiency. 

      • Process:  Processes used include, but are not limited to, executive thinking skills (decision-making, planning, forecasting, monitoring) metacognition, accelerated pacing and wide choice of learning activities, varied group interaction, problem solving, and evidence of reasoning.

      • Product:  Products are more varied and synthesize the research material, and are developed for specific audiences, in self-determined format, evaluated by pupils and teachers using established criteria and rubrics.  Products may be a result of collaboration among members of small groups. 

    • Specific examples of differentiated activities include:

    • Higher order thinking questioning, activities, and assessments

    • Socratic questioning strategies 

    • Independent Extension activities

    • Compacted curriculum