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| START services: Students who are identified for the START program participate in gifted education classes once a week with the gifted education teacher. Regular classroom teachers are given a list of the students identified for services and their area of identifi- cation. The teachers are asked to differentiate curriculum for those children that are identified in regard to content, activities, and/or products. |
| Did you know... START stands for: Strategies for Teaching And Reaching for Talents. |
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| What is START?? |
| Goals of the START Program • To enable students to work with students of similar ability. • To encourage students to work at the edge of their ability. • To give students an opportunity to present their ideas and thoughts. • To encourage intellectual risk taking in a nurturing environment. • To practice analytical, synthetic, and evaluative thinking. • To learn and practice problem-solving skills • To encourage metacognition (thinking about the processes one uses to create ideas, concepts, and answers.) • To introduce students to high level thinking. • To provide a support system. |
| START Class Homepage |
| Contact START teacher for Lake Ridge and Old Bridge |
| Gifted education services are available for Prince William County students in kindergarten through grade 12. START is the Prince William County Program that extends the regular school curriculum for students identified as potentially gifted in Grades K-3. Students identified as potentially gifted in kindergarten receive services in the regular classroom. Students identified as potentially gifted in an academic area in grades one through three are provided with appropriate instruction in each elementary school. |