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Enrichment

Program

2004-2005 Meeting the Diverse Needs of

Students

PEP Program Goals PEP encourages students to:

Demonstrate divergent and creative thinking

Participate in group decision making

Implement problem solving skills

Produce creative solutions to problems

Develop good questioning techniques

PEP Program Goals (continued)

PEP encourages students to:

Acquire advanced technology skills that can be applied across the curriculum

Function at higher levels of cognitive and abstract thinking (analysis, application, synthesis, evaluation)

Establish hypotheses, and use the scientific method to arrive at valid conclusions

Elementary PEP Components

School Wide Enrichment

Challenge Workshops

Staff Development

Core Group Program

School Wide Enrichment

The PEP teacher works with all students (K-5), teaching enrichment units of study in the regular classroom.

School wide enrichment involves curriculum development and modeling of instruction.

Sample of Primary Enrichment Units

Attribute Logic

Data, Chance, & Probability

Involving Dissolving

Creative Dramatics

Sample of Intermediate Enrichment Units

Cooperative Problem Solving

Crime Lab Chemistry

Architecture

Creative Language

Additional Enrichment: Math Olympiads

All fourth and fifth year students have the opportunity to participate

Students are challenged with non-routine, multi-step mathematical problems

Five monthly Olympiads are administered (November-March)

Pre- and post-strategy sessions are held.

PEP Challenge Workshops

PEP Challenge Workshops are rigorous and designed to reflect the diversity of student learning styles, multiple intelligences and interests.

Every student in grades 3 and 4 had the opportunity to select a PEP Challenge Workshop in which to participate.

PEP Challenge Workshops are offered during lunch/recess.

Third GradePEP Challenge Workshops

Brain Bubblers (Strategic Thinking)

Computer Cartooning(Computer

Animation)

Paper Shapers(Spatial Reasoning)

Sweet Science (Kitchen Chemistry)

13%

87%

NotInterested

3rd GradersAttendingChallengeWorkshops

Third GradePEP Challenge WorkshopsAccommodating All Interested Students

328 third graders are participating district-wide

Fourth GradePEP Challenge Workshops

Mystery Science (Forensics)

Sky’s the Limit (Aerodynamics)

Smart Shoppers(Consumer Science)

Web Explorers (Internet Research/Web

Design)

14%

86%

NotInterested

4th GradersAttendingChallengeWorkshops

Fourth GradePEP Challenge Workshops:Accommodating All Interested Students

337 fourth graders are participating district-wide

Staff Development

Conference with teachers to plan class activities

Serve as a resource person for materials and methods

Participate in joint planning for team teaching activities

Core Group Program

The PEP Core Group component offers instruction to qualifying 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.

Core Group students meet with the PEP teacher, in a pull-out format, for a total of two and one-half hours per week.

Core Group Selection Criteria(Starting in Third Year)

Standardized test scores in math and/or reading

Teacher appraisals

Individual I.Q. test

Core Group Curriculum

Student driven

Enhances curriculum

Academically rigorous

Fosters accountability

Core Program Goals

In addition to general PEP Goals, Core Group Students are expected to:

Foster individual responsibility and accountability

Develop public speaking and presentation skills

Apply academic skills to simulations Exhibit fluent, flexible, original and

elaborative thinking.

Questions?