- Serving the learning needs of gifted students in a full-time program that delivers consistent curriculum &differentiation opportunities
- Grouping gifted students together in otherwise heterogeneous classes with a teacher who has special training in how to meet their unique learning needs
- Facilitating the emergence of new academic leaders in classes that do not contain a gifted-cluster group
- Improving support to classroom teachers byway of gifted specialists who have fewer teachers’ schedules to work with
- Improving student performance by communicating higher expectations for all students, by reducing the range of achievement in all classes, and by providing staff development in gifted education for teachers
- Increasing overall achievement at the grade levels that use cluster grouping
- Raising expectations for all students by opening access to classroom opportunities historically reserved for identified gifted students only
Gifted Cluster Classrooms Provide:
