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Prosser School
District
Open Door Program
Special Services for
Highly Capable Students
The purpose of the Prosser School District Open Door Program is to
provide services for the unique needs of highly capable students in
grades 3-8.
The term highly capable students
generally refers to the top 3% of students and unique needs refers to
these learning characteristics:
(1) Capacity to learn with unusual
depth of understanding, to retain what has been learned, and to
transfer learning to new situations;
(2) Capacity and willingness to deal
with increasing levels of abstraction and complexity earlier than
their chronological peers;
(3) Ability to make unusual connections
among ideas and concepts;
(4) Ability to learn very quickly in
their area(s) of intellectual strength;
(5) Capacity for intense concentration
and/or focus.
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20100-2011 Parent Letter
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Individual learning plans
will be recorded for each student that are based on the multiple
intelligences. An emphasis will be placed on developing skills
that are at the top of Blooms Taxonomy: Analysis and synthesis of
information and materials, application of knowledge and learning,
and evaluation of results will be used in various class projects.
Curriculum for the Open Door program will seek to help students
develop a positive self esteem through unique intellectual
challenges that extend beyond the traditional classroom. All units
will use project based learning which fosters individual creativity,
risk taking, problem solving, and critical higher level thinking
skills. Unit of study include computer science, historical research,
economics, local and federal civics, and literature.
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