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Extended Learning Program (Also known as Gifted & Talented Education) Staff Christine Boone, Coordinator, 548-2313 (Serving grades 6-12) Rachel Beckwith, ELP Teacher, 548-2313 (Serving the Searsport Elementary, Stockton Springs Elemetary, Nickerson, and Frankfort Elementary Schools) Jacquie Kahn, ELP Teacher, 338-3510 (Serving the Ames, Drinkwater, E. Belfast, and Capt. Albert Stevens Schools) Goals of the Program All children who excel or have the ability to excel will have the opportunity to pursue an education, which will challenge them to grow from potential to performance. The Extended Learning Program will support these students by: providing an appropriate learning rate and instructional level   providing program models, instructional strategies and materials that will challenge students   providing advanced conceptually complex and carefully differentiated curricula   providing appropriate settings for the changing needs of students   assuring that all learning experiences are aligned to the content of RSU #20 curricula developing personal learning plans that will specify how individual needs will be met   building the capacity in all classes to emphasize critical and creative thinking Children to be Served Gifted and talented students shall receive specialized, differentiated instruction if they have exceptional abilities, aptitude, skill or creativity in one of the following categories: General Intellectual Ability: Shows or demonstrates significant achievement, or potential for significant accomplishment, above their age peers in all academic areas. Specific Academic Aptitude: Shows or demonstrates significant achievement, or potential for significant accomplishment, above their age peers in one or more academic areas. Definitions Gifted and Talented Children: Those children who excel, or have the potential to excel, beyond their age peers. True "giftedness" is found in only 1% to 2% of children. Extended Learning Program: A program that provides specialized, differentiated instruction beyond that available in the regular school program. Differentiated Instruction: Creating multiple paths so students of different abilities experience appropriate ways to absorb, use, develop, and present concepts. Identification Process Screening As is outlined in Chapter 104:  Educational Programs for Gifted and Talented Children: RSU# 20 shall conduct an initial screening and thereafter, an annual review, of the grades 3-12 school population to ensure that all children have an equal opportunity to be considered for selection and placement in the Gifted and Talented Program.   After the initial screening, formal screening shall occur in the fall of the student’s 3rd grade, and spring of the student’s 5th and 8th grade years. Parent, teacher, student referrals are accepted in the fall and spring of each year and NECAP (grades 3-8), NWEA (3-8), PSAT /(10,11) and SAT (11) test data is reviewed on all students each year to ensure no students are being overlooked

Last Modified: Aug 29, 2011