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Each school designs services for students identified for gifted services on the basis of school and countywide objectives and following the APS 2022-2027 Local Plan for the Gifted.
Students may be identified in grades K-12 in mathematics, language arts, science and social studies.
School based academic services are delivered:
- in open enrollment intensified courses in English Language Arts and Reading, Science and Social Studies in grades 7 and 8 beginning in the 2023-2024 school year. (Grade 6 open enrollment intensified courses will begin the following school year, 2024-2025.) *Students who select this level of challenge and who are identified as gifted will be clustered within the same classroom with at least 10 students also identified in the same area.)
- advanced courses in mathematics, world language and/or geography *Students who are placed in advanced courses in mathematics and who are identified as gifted will be clustered within the same class withy at least 10 students also identified in mathematics.)
- with teachers who have earned the minimum requirement of 40 gifted points (PIP: G-2.14 PIP-9) and who continue to seek additional opportunities to learn strategies and curricular resources written for gifted learners to strengthen their instruction; a collaborative cluster model in which the classroom teacher works with the resource teacher for the gifted to plan, model, develop and/or present appropriately differentiated learning experiences for gifted students on a daily basis.
The benefits of a collaborative model are one of the ways schools strengthen services to provide gifted services to a much broader range of advanced learners. By working with teachers to add rigor and complexity to lessons, gifted learners get the daily challenge they need while offering more students the opportunity to think and problem solve at higher levels.