- Sawyer Road Elementary
- Gifted Information
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Gifted Learners at Sawyer Road
For more information contact Sterling Garner at SGarner@marietta-city.k12.ga.us
Resource Model
- 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 DevelopmentStudents 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.