| Mission Statement | Program Design | Curriculum and Instruction |
The G/T Program provides services in the following areas as outlined in the state plan: Student Assessment, Program Design, Curriculum and Instruction, Professional Development, and Family-Community Involvement. Each campus has a G/T program and serves its identified students in a way that best meets their needs.
The Brownsville Independent School District is committed to providing and continuing to develop a GALAXY [Gifted Academic Learning-Achieving Excellence for Youth] (Gifted and Talented Program) which identifies all students who perform at or show the potential for performing at a remarkably high level of accomplishment when compared to others of the same age, experience, or environment. These students are those who exhibit high performance capability in an intellectual, creative, or artistic area; possess an unusual capacity for leadership; or excel in a specific academic field (TEC, Chapter 29, Subchapter D, Section 29.121). The GALAXY Program meets the needs of identified students in a way that:
•provides
scheduled
nominations,
screening,
and
identification;
•challenges
students
to
develop
academically,
artistically,
socially,
and
emotionally;
•provides
instructional
materials
that
focus on
depth
and
complexity
in an
interdisciplinary
environment;
•requires
on-going
training
for
campus
personnel;
and
•encourages
family-community
awareness
and
involvement.
The GALAXY Program is a flexible system of viable program options that provide a learning continuum throughout the district and reinforces the strengths, needs, and interests of G/T students. Campuses provide services through the following options:
•Full-Time Classes (Homogeneous Grouping);
•
Heterogeneous
Grouping
(half
the
class is
made up
of
regular students
and half
the
class is
made up
of
identified
G/T
students);
or
•Multi-Grade
Grouping
(Cross-Grade)
Curriculum
and
Instruction
The K-12
curriculum
meets
the
needs of
gifted
students
by
modifying
the
depth,
complexity,
and
pacing
of the
general
school
program.
This
interdisciplinary
curriculum
is based
on the
key
concepts,
themes
and
generalizations
from the
Texas
Essential
Knowledge
and
Skills (TEKS).
These
concepts
are
integrated
across
the
disciplines
to help
students
understand
the
relationship
of
independent
parts of
knowledge
while
making
connections
among
and
between
all
disciplines.
Academic Assessments
Fine Arts Assessment