Dorchester School District II

Gifted and Talented Education

 Our Goal …

        …is to develop and encourage within each student: a desire for excellence, an awareness and confidence of individual talents and abilities, a sense of individual responsibility to their school and to our changing society, and a love of learning.

 

GATE Curriculum Goals

 

Goal I: To support mastery of core areas of learning at a pace, complexity, abstractness, and depth appropriate for gifted learners.

Goal II: To develop an understanding of concepts, themes, and issues among the disciplines as well as society and to develop an appreciation for the interrelationships among the disciplines.

Goal III: To develop inquiry skills at a level of complexity, abstractness, and depth appropriate for gifted learners.

Goal IV: To develop the skills of critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making at a level of complexity, abstractness, and depth appropriate for gifted learners.

Goal V: To develop proficiency in communicating abstract and complex ideas, relationships, and issues.