Gifted Learners at Sawyer Road

• All students are gifted in these classes.
• STEM Design Challenges 
• Critical and Divergent Thinking 
• Curriculum has an academic content foundation, but focuses on interdisciplinary 
  enrichment activities.
• Two segments per week. 

Collaboration Model

• Gifted specialist and classroom teacher  collaborate in the  development of challenging assignments that substitute for or extend core MATH and ELA standards.
• Direct instruction provided by classroom teacher, but there is collaborative planning between the classroom teacher and the gifted specialist

• Teachers document curriculum modifications through time log of collaborative planning with Gifted Specialist for ex: lesson planning, gifted lessons, provided and modeled by gifted specialist, and observation of gifted lessons taught
•  Differentiated Homework in Math & ELA
• Challenge Book Study in Reading w/ Gifted Specialist
• IB Summative Assessments
• STEM Design Challenges embedded in IB Planners

 Model

• Gifted students placed as a group into a heterogeneous regular classroom
• Regular classroom teacher has gifted endorsement.
• Teacher documents curriculum modifications made for gifted students in individual student contracts in ELA & Math
• Differentiated Homework in Math & ELA
• Challenge Book Study in Reading w/ Gifted Specialist
• IB Summative Assessments
• STEM Design Challenges embedded in IB Planners

Cluster Model

• Gifted students placed as a group into a heterogeneous regular classroom

• Regular classroom teacher has gifted endorsement.
• Teacher documents curriculum modifications made for gifted students in individual student contracts in ELA & Math
• Differentiated Homework in Math & ELA
• Challenge Book Study in Reading w/ Gifted Specialist
• IB Summative Assessments
• STEM Design Challenges embedded in IB Planners

Talent Development

 Students in K-2 are identified by teacher or referred by parent who are candidates for the gifted program and pulled out weekly for talent development by Gifted Teacher.