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START
Recent ActivityInstructor: Mrs. Busky
START (Strategies for Teaching and Reaching Talent) is a program for potentially gifted students in kindergarten through third grade. These students are more advanced than their peers and need acceleration and enrichment, as well as opportunities for creative and critical thinking. The START goals are to challenge students to develop their skills in thinking critically, creatively and reflectively. Students are offered a variety of educational opportunities that extend and enrich the county curriculum and support the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs).
The START resource teacher and the regular classroom teacher work together to identify potentially gifted students, to assess the needs of those students, to provide differentiation in the regular classroom and to offer enrichment and acceleration. In addition, the START students come to the resource room each week to work directly with the START teacher. During this time, students work on units that involve above-grade level concepts as well as opportunities to work on choice activities.
The START resource teacher and the regular classroom teacher work together to identify potentially gifted students, to assess the needs of those students, to provide differentiation in the regular classroom and to offer enrichment and acceleration. In addition, the START students come to the resource room each week to work directly with the START teacher. During this time, students work on units that involve above-grade level concepts as well as opportunities to work on choice activities.
Class Announcements PROMOTING DIVERGENT THINKINGStimulating Your Child's Creativity
According to the experts, it is possible to encourage or inhibit the development and expression of creativity in young children. Most theories of child development view young children as highly creative, with a natural tendency to fantasize, experiment, and explore their physical and conceptual environment. However this high level of creativity is not necessarily maintained throughout childhood and into adulthood. The level of creativity declines when they start the kindergarten and peaks again when they reach puberty. To read the entire article go to;
http://www.brainy-child.com/article/child-creativity.htmlDiscussion Topics Class Files
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