Gifted Education at NNPS
Gifted Instruction
The NNPS Gifted Education curriculum utilizes evidence-based instructional practices to foster student growth towards and achievement of the Virginia Standards of Learning.
Gifted Services Curriculum
The gifted program is for students who have qualified through the gifted screening and identification process by demonstrating their capacity for complex processing abilities. These students need the challenge of a curriculum with high rigor and expectations that will meet the students' social, emotional, and academic needs. The gifted program requires students to perform to their ability, to think, to stretch, and to assume responsibility for their learning.
Instruction
The Gifted Services instructional program is designed around the learning styles and cognitive characteristics of gifted children. The gifted program provides a multidisciplinary curriculum incorporating critical thinking, problem solving, reflection, student interaction, collaboration, communication, and discussion. Opportunities are provided for research, inquiry based learning, scientific analysis, project-based learning, and literary analysis. To meet the diverse needs of students identified for gifted services, teachers utilize strategies such as subject acceleration, curriculum compacting, tiered instruction which provides challenge and complexity, advanced materials as appropriate, and avenues for research/independent study related to core curriculum concepts. Among the specialized studies included in the curriculum are problem-based learning, abstract thinking, research skills, productive thinking units, and literature selections that encourage critical reading and thinking skills.
