Gifted Services
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Services Offered
- Renaissance Highly Gifted Academies
- Gifted Cohort
- School-Wide Gifted Program
- Young Learners Options
- Bright Child Kindergarten
- Gifted Cluster Model K-12
- SAGE Content Replacement G 3-6
- SPARK Enrichment Program K-6
- Walk Up to Math K-8
- Middle School G 7&8
- Advanced Learner Options K-12
- International Baccalaureate
- Enrichment Specialists
- High School G 9-12
- Summer Camps
- Parents
- Support Gifted Services
- Testing
- Gifted Identification
- Deer Valley Unified School District
- Services Offered
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Gifted Cluster Model Benefits:
- 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:
- Enrichment
- Acceleration
- Extended, Real-world Learning Opportunities
- Emphasis on on Problem Solving
- Higher Order, Critical, & Creative Thinking Skills
Additional Resources:
- Serving the learning needs of gifted students in a full-time program that delivers consistent curriculum &differentiation opportunities
