Tallahassee, Florida
Program for Gifted and Talented Students
Mrs. Sandy Beck ,Teacher
The gifted program provides a learning environment that teaches creative and critical thinking skills and encourages intellectual risk-taking while emphasizing the value of high personal standards of quality and excellence.
Gifted students at Astoria Park participate in content-based, interdisciplinary enrichment classes. Each semester's class focuses on a different theme.
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Classes:
- Fall 2010: The Panther Prowl (check back soon)
Spring 2010: Nature Nuts - Fall 2009: Dream Project
- Spring 2009: Bird Brains!
- Fall 2008: Raptor Force
- Spring 2008: Tallahassee, Then and Now
- Fall 2007: Mirror with a Memory
- Spring 2007: The Great Ape Project
- Fall 2006: Alien Invaders
- Spring 2006: Word Art
- Fall 2005: Hidden Worlds
- Spring 2005: Ornithology for Kids
- Fall 2004: Tigers of the Sky
- Spring 2004: The Canine Connection
- Fall 2003: The Cows Are Going to Paris
Gifted Class Syllabi are based on:
1. Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives:
Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis and Evaluation
and
2. Joseph Renzulli's theory of gifted learning and "Enrichment Triad Model":
TYPE I - General Interest / Exploratory Activities
These activities are designed to expose students to topics that ordinarily would not be covered within the regular curriculum. Examples of Type I activities might include listening to guest speakers, watching demonstrations, going on field trips, viewing print or non-print materials and brainstorming sessions.
TYPE II - Group Training Activities / Skills Development
These activities are designed to develop thinking and feeling skills and students are involved in designing, experimenting, comparing, analyzing, recording and classifying. Skills to be developed include creative and critical thinking, learning how to learn, using advanced level reference materials and communicating effectively.
TYPE III - Individual and Small Group Investigation of Real Problems
Students apply the knowledge and skills they have developed while working through Type I and Type II activities to focus on a particular area or issue that interests them and produce individual creative products that are shared with real audiences.
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