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Bayside High School's Gifted Program

Goals and Objectives

A. Promote the awareness of the unique needs of gifted students among parents, school staff, and the community.

  • Provide opportunities to communicate and exchange information with the school community about gifted characteristics, identification, and services
  • Make gifted resources available to parents, school staff, and the community.
  • Initiate and or attend parent-teacher conferences with teachers, counselors, and administrators about the needs and concerns of gifted students.

B. To differentiate curriculum and instruction in order to provide opportunities for rigor, challenge, and enrichment for intellectually gifted students to meet their emotional, social, and intellectual needs.

  • Provide a variety of learning opportunities (e.g., SPARKS, Think Tank, Gifted Program Credit Courses, Independent Studies)
  • Offer students opportunities for problem-solving, goal-setting, college/career exploration and preparation, leadership development, mentorship, and volunteerism.
  • Provide students with experiences in the arts through many and varied enrichment events, support for the Governor's School for the Arts, Governor's Residential Summer Programs, seminars, field trips, and/or excursion.

C. To provide effective staff development opportunities for teachers, counselors, and administrators.

  • Provide information and training that will enable teachers, counselors, and administrators to serve the diverse populations of the schools.
  • Share strategies on the differentiation.  

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