Vocational Day #2:
Grant visited Bonner Middle School today and was once again very pleasantly surprised by the creative approach to dealing with multiple intelligences within one school.
Pupils who prove gifted, academically, are grouped in an enrichment class and stimulated through more challenging content that far exceeds the Standards of Learning (SOL's).
A Grade 7 class that Grant visited, as an example, was dealing with Frankenstein, and Mr Salamon, the English Arts teacher for this gifted programme, was using the text to stimulate lively debate over ethical issues as controversial as genetic engineering. By playing 'devil's advocate' he was able to challenge the students to think more deeply and express their opinions more convincingly.
At the same time, Ms Ross, a gifted teacher in her own right, worked in an upstairs classroom with a teacher's aid and a therapist, with a group of students of very diverse academic ability.
Grant was made to feel very welcome at this incredible school and what struck him most was how interested Dr Cocran and the staff were about his own experiences in education in South Africa.
Grant visited Bonner Middle School today and was once again very pleasantly surprised by the creative approach to dealing with multiple intelligences within one school.
Pupils who prove gifted, academically, are grouped in an enrichment class and stimulated through more challenging content that far exceeds the Standards of Learning (SOL's).
A Grade 7 class that Grant visited, as an example, was dealing with Frankenstein, and Mr Salamon, the English Arts teacher for this gifted programme, was using the text to stimulate lively debate over ethical issues as controversial as genetic engineering. By playing 'devil's advocate' he was able to challenge the students to think more deeply and express their opinions more convincingly.
At the same time, Ms Ross, a gifted teacher in her own right, worked in an upstairs classroom with a teacher's aid and a therapist, with a group of students of very diverse academic ability.
Grant was made to feel very welcome at this incredible school and what struck him most was how interested Dr Cocran and the staff were about his own experiences in education in South Africa.
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