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Estabrook explained.
Renzulli’s approach incorporates three different types of activities: (1) enrichment and exploration, (2) group training and (3) individual and small group training.
“Only the most able and the most highly motivated get to type three activities,” the superintendent noted. “Even within a gifted and talented program, we’re still not taking each and every student and treating them exactly the same.”
With type two activities, youngsters receive training in creativity, problem solving and higher thinking skills, Marshall noted.
As an example, she described the work of a fifth grader in a gifted and talented program elsewhere in the country. The youngster researched World War II* interviewing people in his community who either fought in the conflict or had a relative who fought. He gathered letters and objects, created a museum and then conducted workshops—one hour, two hour and day-long sessions—on World War II. Teachers pre-tested the youngster in various school subjects and if the results showed he had mastered the topic, he used the class period to work on his special project.
In something along those same lines, Estabrook hopes to eventually carry over the gifted and talented program here into day-to-day school activities. “It’s a link we need to forge as we move into the next year,” he said, noting that in-service training for teachers will preceed the move. “It will give the youngsters continuing input and motivation, the day-today recognition these students need."
This year, the gifted and talented program serves % children, all of them identified last year as being gifted or talented. In accordance with state mandates, gifted and talented students are those who possess abilities in one or more of five areas:
—general intellectual ability.
—specific academic ability,
—visual and performing arts,
—psychosocial (leadership) ability,
—creative and productive thinking ability.
“Up to this point, Rappahannock County has followed the path typical of the state and the nation in focusing on the first area—general intellectual ability—with screening emphasis on standardized test data,” Estabrook noted.
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