Program Delivery Models

All students served in the gifted program in Coweta County receive a minimum of five segments of services each week.

Elementary Schools (K-5)

In the elementary schools, gifted students are served through the resource class or the advanced content class models of instruction one day per week by grade level at their home school. This allows the students to participate in thematic cross-curricular units. The curriculum, which is aligned with the Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS), promotes meaningful, challenging, interdisciplinary, and rich learning goals. This differentiated instruction provides needed services for the exceptional learners. The use of multi-faceted units allows all students’ needs to be met in their areas of giftedness. Finally, the students are able to transfer problem solving, deductive reasoning, cooperative learning, higher level thinking, and performance based assessments to their regular education classrooms. The REACH teachers work cooperatively with all classroom teachers to help enrich and accelerate required curriculum for these students daily.

Middle Schools (6-8)

In the middle schools, the special needs of gifted students are met through the resource class or the advanced content class models of instruction in the areas of science and language arts as part of the students’ daily schedules. Instruction is differentiated and composed of units and projects to expand and enhance the current Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS). Students are homogeneously grouped on the basis of achievement and interest in a specific academic content area. If gifted enrollment allows, students who are not identified as gifted but who have demonstrated exceptional ability and motivation in a particular content area are placed in the advanced content classes.

High Schools (9-12)

In the high schools, gifted students study in specific academic areas of interest and expertise for a minimum of five hours of gifted services per week (or the yearly equivalent on block scheduling). English and social studies resource classes and College Board Advanced Placement (AP) classes provide accelerated and differentiated learning experiences to meet the cognitive, social, and emotional needs of gifted students. Content, pacing, learning processes, and performance expectations of the curriculum in each delivery model are more rigorous and differentiated to the extent that the instruction is clearly not appropriate for more typical students at that grade level.