P ort E nrichment P rogram
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Enrichment
Program
2004-2005 Meeting the Diverse Needs of
Students
PEP Program Goals PEP encourages students to:
Demonstrate divergent and creative thinking
Participate in group decision making
Implement problem solving skills
Produce creative solutions to problems
Develop good questioning techniques
PEP Program Goals (continued)
PEP encourages students to:
Acquire advanced technology skills that can be applied across the curriculum
Function at higher levels of cognitive and abstract thinking (analysis, application, synthesis, evaluation)
Establish hypotheses, and use the scientific method to arrive at valid conclusions
Elementary PEP Components
School Wide Enrichment
Challenge Workshops
Staff Development
Core Group Program
School Wide Enrichment
The PEP teacher works with all students (K-5), teaching enrichment units of study in the regular classroom.
School wide enrichment involves curriculum development and modeling of instruction.
Sample of Primary Enrichment Units
Attribute Logic
Data, Chance, & Probability
Involving Dissolving
Creative Dramatics
Sample of Intermediate Enrichment Units
Cooperative Problem Solving
Crime Lab Chemistry
Architecture
Creative Language
Additional Enrichment: Math Olympiads
All fourth and fifth year students have the opportunity to participate
Students are challenged with non-routine, multi-step mathematical problems
Five monthly Olympiads are administered (November-March)
Pre- and post-strategy sessions are held.
PEP Challenge Workshops
PEP Challenge Workshops are rigorous and designed to reflect the diversity of student learning styles, multiple intelligences and interests.
Every student in grades 3 and 4 had the opportunity to select a PEP Challenge Workshop in which to participate.
PEP Challenge Workshops are offered during lunch/recess.
Third GradePEP Challenge Workshops
Brain Bubblers (Strategic Thinking)
Computer Cartooning(Computer
Animation)
Paper Shapers(Spatial Reasoning)
Sweet Science (Kitchen Chemistry)
13%
87%
NotInterested
3rd GradersAttendingChallengeWorkshops
Third GradePEP Challenge WorkshopsAccommodating All Interested Students
328 third graders are participating district-wide
Fourth GradePEP Challenge Workshops
Mystery Science (Forensics)
Sky’s the Limit (Aerodynamics)
Smart Shoppers(Consumer Science)
Web Explorers (Internet Research/Web
Design)
14%
86%
NotInterested
4th GradersAttendingChallengeWorkshops
Fourth GradePEP Challenge Workshops:Accommodating All Interested Students
337 fourth graders are participating district-wide
Staff Development
Conference with teachers to plan class activities
Serve as a resource person for materials and methods
Participate in joint planning for team teaching activities
Core Group Program
The PEP Core Group component offers instruction to qualifying 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.
Core Group students meet with the PEP teacher, in a pull-out format, for a total of two and one-half hours per week.
Core Group Selection Criteria(Starting in Third Year)
Standardized test scores in math and/or reading
Teacher appraisals
Individual I.Q. test
Core Group Curriculum
Student driven
Enhances curriculum
Academically rigorous
Fosters accountability
Core Program Goals
In addition to general PEP Goals, Core Group Students are expected to:
Foster individual responsibility and accountability
Develop public speaking and presentation skills
Apply academic skills to simulations Exhibit fluent, flexible, original and
elaborative thinking.
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