Site Map
 
Home
Board of Education
Superintendent
Business Office
Our Schools
Special Services
Curriculum
For Teachers
For Students
For Parents
Local Links
Gifted and Talented Programs


Every child has the right to be provided with educational opportunities that challenge their unique interests and special talents. The gifted and talented programs have been designed to support and enrich differentiated instruction within the classroom and offer enriching activities beyond the classroom walls. With the goals of developing higher order, critical, and creative thinking skills to enhance the child’s own life while enriching the larger community, these programs are designed to develop and bolster individual strengths and talents of all children attending the Lincoln Park Schools.

Primary Enrichment Program (PEP)

The enrichment specialist spends time weekly in each second grade classroom bringing lessons that include creative thinking skills (fluency, flexibility), logic (patterns, syllogisms), analysis and evaluation, and a unit on the justice system. Working with the second graders allows the enrichment specialist the opportunity to assist the classroom teacher in identifying pupils for the HEP program.

In-Class Enrichment (ICE)

The enrichment specialist works in each classroom from grades three through five once a week for a 45-minute period. Pupils are presented with high-level activities requiring both creative and critical thinking skills and are encouraged to stretch their abilities to their outer limits.

High Enrichment Program (HEP)

In the H.E.P. program, students who meet district criteria work with the enrichment specialist teacher to explore many different areas of interest while working at the highest possible academic level. Students are encouraged to seek information and solutions utilizing their own unique abilities, talents, and interests. Our program addresses the potential in each student and seeks the development of such qualities divergent thinking, creativity, problem solving, and sensitivity to others. Third, fourth, and fifth graders are pulled from their regular classroom for one 45-minute period once a week; sixth graders meet for a double period once a week; seventh and eighth grade students meet on “B” days during the morning homeroom period.

Other Opportunities for All Students

It is possible for students who do not meet the HEP criteria yet excel in one or more areas to be included in other programs and special events. Math Olympiad is an ongoing program and students from grade four through eight are chosen by their classroom teacher for participation. Our district also belongs to the New Jersey Consortium for Gifted & Talented Programs, which sponsors such activities as Math Marathon, Workshop on the Arts, Learning Carnival, Spelling Bee, and other events for which all students are eligible.

 


Understanding Giftedness


 

Resources and Opportunities

Organizations and Web Resources Talent Search and Summer Programs

New Jersey Association for Gifted Children
http://njagc.org

The Gifted Child Society
http://www.gifted.org

Center for Gifted Education Policy
http://www.apa.org/ed/cgep.html

American Association of Gifted Children
http://www.aagc.org

National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC)
www.nagc.org

The Association for the Gifted (TAG)
http:// www.cectag.org

David C. Baird's Gifted Children Web Site
http://www.giftedchildren.cjb.net

Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) focuses primarily on the adults in the lives of gifted children.
http://www.SENGifted.org

Hoagies' Gifted Education Page is a resource guide for the education of gifted children with links to resources on nearly every aspect of gifted education.
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org

Gifted Children: Identification, Encouragement, and Development is an on-line parents' newsletter dedicated to making a difference in the education of children with special talents and abilities.
http://www.gifted-children.com

Gifted Children - Activity and Resource Calendar for Parents is a great calendar providing a wealth of information, ideas, activities, and resources for parents of gifted and talented children.
http://www.kidsource.com/gifted.calendar.html

Distance Learning Network is a comprehensive listing of cyber academies, high schools, and opportunities to take individual classes or courses.
http://www.dlrn.org/k12/how.html

Academically Gifted and Talented Youth Program at Montclair State University offers a supplementary academic program for high aptitude and high achieving students grades 4-11.
http://www.montclair.edu/gifted

Summer Institute for the Gifted
(grades 4-11)
http://www.cgp-sig.com

Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University (CTY) is a comprehensive, university-based initiative providing academic summer programs for those who score highly in their annual talent searches.
http://www.jhu.edu/gifted

Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University provides testing and programs that identify, nurture, and develop the gifts of students ages 4 to 18
http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu

Academic Talent Development Program for students grades K-11 at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education.
http://www-atdp.berkeley.edu

University of Northern Colorado Summer Enrichment Program for children in grades 5-10 who are gifted, talented, and creative.
http://www.unco.edu/sep

Rocky Mountain Talent Search (RMTS) from University of Denver providing opportunities for academically talented youth grades 5-9.
http://www.du.edu/education/ces/rmts.html

Talent Identification Program at Duke University helps 4th through 12th grade gifted youth evaluate, learn about, and grow their talents.
http://www.tip.duke.edu/index.html

Davidson Institute for Talent Development (supporting the profoundly gifted population)
http://www.davidsoninstitute.org