Welcome to the Adobe Acres GT/GT Quest Program taught
by
Faith F. Forsythe and Elyse P. Sedillo.
We invite guests to come to experience the many exciting
learning activities through which our students explore, strengthen and develop
their gifted abilities.
Check us out in the NAGC publication, "In Search of
the Dream: Designing Schools and Classrooms that Work for High Potential
Students from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds." www.nagc.org.
The vision statement
for the Adobe Acres Gifted and Talented/Quest Program is to provide rigorous
curricula to gifted students that will develop their abilities as autonomous
learners, skilled critical and creative thinkers who will positively impact
the 21st century with their leadership.
The GT/Quest Program
Values are: Teachers who are motivated, loving and caring, Students who are
motivated, loving and caring, Respect for Diversity, Character that
Counts, High Expectations, Fun Learning Community, Creativity, Independence,
Safe Environment, Global Thinking and Flexible Persistence.
Enrichment and acceleration
activies for the GT students include: Challenge Math, FPSP (Future Problem
Solving Program), Career Investigations, Piano, Fine Arts, Photography, Pre-Algebra,
Philosophy, Psychology, Lexicology, Battle of the Books, Wrinkle Writing,
Night of the Notables, Written and Illustrated by book publication, College
of William and Mary Language Arts Curriculum, Touch Pebbles, Mock Trial,
and Autonomous Learner Independent Projects.
DRAMA
G/T students work with theatre artists in the Wrinkle Writing Program sponsored
by the University of New Mexico. After a semester of exploring the playwiting
processes, students compete in a playwriting student competition, and meet
with a published guest playwright for a day. Winners of the competition are
invited to an evening at the University of New Mexico in which their plays
are perfomed by UNM drama students. Fourth and fifth grade students create
an orginal play which is performed at UNM's Rodey Theatre in mid-May.
FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING
In FPSP (Future Problem Solving
Program) students are taught to think futuristically. The students may
work independently or in a team to research a selected topic, apply the FPSP
six step problem solving process and compete against other teams in the State
of New Mexico. Winners of the FPSP New Mexico State Bowl are invited to attend
the International FPSP Competition. The Adobe Acres Thunderbird FPSP Teams
have earned the following distinctions:
2002 - 1st Place, 2003 - 2nd Place, 2004- 1st Place, 2005 - 1st Place.
FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING
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PIANO
Students have the opportunity to explore
piano lessons using the Suzuki theory and method. Students learn to
read music. Recitals are held in December and May for families and friends
to attend.
NIGHT OF THE
NOTABLES
The Night of
the Notables is an independent study of a person who has made a positive
difference in our world. Students do a mini-project, a "Glimpses of Greatness",
each month. An in-depth research investigaion is conducted by each
student and culminates in The Night of the Notables, which is held in May.
Among the notables who have attended are: Lucille Ball, Vince Lombardi,
Einstien, Mark Twain, Cleopatra, Martin Luther King, Nostradamus, Galileo,
President Reagan, Neil Armstrong, Tiger Woods, Oprah, Shirley Temple and
Helen Keller.
