Content Replacement/Enrichment daily with a Gifted Specialist,
Grades 4-6

Gifted Education Specialists* provide content replacement and/or content enrichment to gifted students in each elementary school for grades 4-6. Students receive accelerated and enriched instruction in mathematics and/or language arts, depending upon their area(s) of identification and needs. Students receive content replacement in lieu of the regular grade level curriculum provided in their homeroom classes, and content enrichment in addition to instruction provided in the homeroom or gifted cluster class. Curriculum in these content areas is accelerated to an appropriately challenging level. In language arts, students receive instruction through grammar and literature. Students move beyond the regular language arts curriculum using advanced levels of analysis and critical thinking. In math, students pursue topics such as probability, logic, statistics, algebra, and geometry at advanced levels.

*PVschools gifted specialists all are state certified, Highly Qualified, and have specific certification and training to work with gifted students.

Curriculum and instruction enrichment provided by Gifted Specialists during Honors classes includes:

• Accelerated Mathematics
• Latin stems studies as a foundation for interpreting the living languages
• Socratic Seminars
• Junior Great Books
• Classic and Contemporary literature
• Project Based Learning
• Core Knowledge integrated curriculum
• Advanced problem solving instruction
• Classic literature
• 4 level grammar
• Math Olympiad & Continental Math competitions
• Grammar and vocabulary instruction using the work of Michael Clay Thompson