Talented and Gifted (TAG)—A pull-out program that services selected third, fourth and fifth grade students who excel in all curricular areas. Student selection is based on high achievement test scores in reading, language and math; high achievement on creativity tests; and superior teacher nominations.
Math and Reading Strategies (MARS)—Designed to meet the needs of those students who excel in the content areas of math and/or reading and language arts. Students are selected based upon demonstrated high achievement and task commitment. Each session is twelve weeks long.
Primary Enrichment Program (PEP)—A total enrichment program that services all first and second grade students. Enrichment teachers provide a thematic lesson for one forty-minute session per week.
District Philosophy:
The public schools of Washington Township are committed to a philosophy that each student should have the opportunity to develop his/her potential to achieve commensurate with his/her needs and abilities. Gifted children have a right to an educational environment where their gifts are respected. They require certain special educational services in order to assist them to more readily achieve their potential.
In order to provide equally for social-intellectual development, any program for the gifted should provide appropriate activities which permit gifted students to have an association with their peers, while requiring them to function with their chronological and social peers during a majority of the school week.
The emphasis of the gifted programs focuses on learning processes and cultivation of each student’s unique abilities to:
· Think critically.
· Build meanings and concepts.
· Encourage problem solving and inquiry.
· Foster self-direction and independence, as well as the desire to experiment with ideas.
Program Objectives:
The purpose of Washington Township’s program for the gifted can be summarized in the following eleven areas:
1. To provide a rich environment which will allow for self-expression, self-knowledge and self-evaluation.
2. To provide increased opportunities for self-direction and in-depth learning through independent study.
3. To provide increased opportunities for problem solving relevant to the student’s needs.
4. To provide increased opportunities for developing creative thinking processes.
5. To provide opportunities for assuming the duties and responsibilities of a leader.
6. To provide increased opportunities for acquisition of knowledge and basic skills and apply them in a variety of ways.
7. To provide increased opportunities for more extensive development of communication skills.
8. To provide increased opportunities for developing critical thinking skills.
9. To provide increased opportunities for expansion of interests.
10. To provide opportunities for increased motivation to learn.
11. To provide opportunities for interaction with other gifted and talented students while maintaining normal peer relationships within the daily school routine.
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