Project EXCEL

EXceptional Curriculum for Exceptional Learning

Academically talented students are a unique population within the learning community at BLS. In order to achieve their potential, these youth require diverse learning experiences to meet their educational needs, and BLS offers a service option to formally identified students. This program meets all identification and curricular criteria established by the Ohio Department of Education / Gifted and Talented Education Standards. Project EXCEL, through the support of the total BLS learning community, affords opportunities and differentiated strategies that extends learning beyond the standard curriculum. Through this program, we hope to enhance our students’ potential for life-long learning and maximize their contributions to society with a meaningful, productive discipleship. The instructor, Edward Ristau, M.Ed., is a licensed Intervention Specialist K-12 / Gift and Talented Education.

Curriculum Objectives / Fall Semester 2006
Establishing Content, Process, and Product

Content
  1. It will be an authentic study of the selected topic as each student will develop a new recognition of an area previously not researched.
  2. There will be significant relevance to the discovery of new information and data, and not merely drill and practice of prior knowledge.
  3. It will include technological integration to provide multiple sources of information and data. Additionally, this data will be relevant and current to specific developments within the independent topic.
Process
  1. Information and data will be researched in a manner that will allow the student to manipulate and organize it so as to effectively present a cohesive and logical argument.
  2. The student’s scholarly research must exhibit specific higher-level thinking skills in the areas of analysis and evaluation.
  3. Technological integration will promote an avenue where information will be researched quickly while, at the same time, providing the student a greater opportunity to analyze and evaluate.
Product
  1. The opportunity for extensive research in the selected topic will provide an expansion of scholarly and creative understanding of multiple perspectives. [Requirement: Tri-fold]
  2. Technological integration will provide feedback from a global setting through analysis and evaluation of researched information and data. [Requirement: PowerPoint ]
  3. Creative functionality will demonstrate specific topic relevance. [Requirement: Model]
  4. The culminating event [January 31, 2007 EXCEL Semester Fair] will provide a public experience in demonstrating and discussing the student’s creativity, scholarly research, and topical expertise to an audience of friends, peers, and invited area gifted education professionals.

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