Gifted Education
⭐Gifted Education at General Myer Elementary challenges students grades 3rd-5th in their core classrooms, as well as having the option to attend a Gifted Pull-Out Program, and have home access to the digital makerspace called Imagination Zone!
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE
How Our Gifted and Talented Program Functions:
⭐Gifted students at General Myer, receive both expanded academic course offerings in the classroom and may attend an hour pullout program on a weekly basis.
⭐Expanded Academic Course Offerings: Offerings may include acceleration, enrichment, flexible pacing, and interdisciplinary curriculum. Differentiated instruction that includes creative thinking, problem solving, and higher order thinking is a big part of the program as well.
The Gifted Education Pull Out Program at General Myer Elementary School, known as Discovery, offers hands-on experiences, where students learn through creativity, play, and collaboration. Students are grouped for pull out sessions by grade to assure collaboration and communication with peers while working on interdisciplinary project based curriculum.Throughout the year, Verbal, Nonverbal and Quantitative gifted students will work with Flocabulary to become global learners and review current events through This Week In Rap Jr. Current Event knowledge strengthens reasoning and logical thinking skills that are essential to everyday tasks and real life situations.
Throughout the year, Gifted students may work with technology like Circuits, Edison Robots and Makey Makey to develop and strengthen reasoning, technology skills, communication, and collaboration skills.
Need Enrichment Now? Try our Imagination Zone!
Testing:
If you believe your student is gifted you may request that they be tested. Referrals are available at each school site and testing occurs three times a school year. Students may only be tested once per school year. Students may be referred by either a parent, themselves, or teacher in order to be considered for testing for the gifted program.Next Gifted Testing Dates:
✏️ Fall testing September 23th to October 10th
✏️ Winter Testing: January 6th to January 24th 2025.
✏️ Spring Testing: April 28th to May 6th Note: Referrals due by April 8th , 2025.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS:
⭐ Specific testing dates for each school will be determined based on number of the number of referrals submitted by referral deadlines, announced to teachers.
⭐Please remember no student may be tested without parent permission. Deadlines for referrals and parent permission slips for testing will be emailed to teachers prior to testing dates.
Have Questions? Please Contact:
Nadia Westen, the District Gifted Teacher, works with each school site to ensure the gifted students are participating in project based learning, challenging students to increase skills in the 4C’s- collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and communication. Mrs. Westen has been teaching gifted education since 2013. Her philosophy for learning is that each child is unique, and each child learns in a different way, one of the jobs of gifted education is to help your child discover his or her individuality and work alongside them to maximize it.
The philosophy of the Fort Huachuca Accommodation School District is one that encourages and nurtures complex thinking and creativity within an inclusive environment that allows for optimal development. Our district supports a multi-dimensional teaching approach that provides an appropriate academic curriculum.