Each student has a unique combination of abilities and talents, learning rates and styles, hopes and dreams, and problems and fears. At Earle B. Wood Middle School the gifted and talented students are those who perform at a high level of accomplishment when compared with other students of their age, experience, or environment. These students are from all cultural groups across the economic strata and have unique educational needs that could be met through a variety of instructional groupings and practices so that they may reach their full level of their potential. At Earle B. Wood Middle School all staff are dedicated to the acceptance of these individual differences and to the provision that all students have the opportunity to reach academic excellence and the preparation for them to reach academic success in high school. No single criterion is used to admit an applicant.
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Sequencing of events, ideas, or details is clear and consistent. Details are well organized. Errors in sentence formation conventions if present, do not interfere with meaning or interrupt the reading. While English and math instruction are held in separate classes, GT instruction in social studies and sciences may be offered in either separate classes or through clustered grouping of students as the schedule dictates. Students register and are accepted for individual GT courses and not for the GT program as a whole.