Gifted and Talented Education

Gifted students receive differentiated instruction in their classrooms based on various research-based teaching models. Lessons focus on varying instructional levels and interests to provide a rigorous and relevant curriculum to all students.

Opportunities for Differentiation occur inside and outside of the classroom for gifted students at Franklin including (but are not limited to): 

• Higher level of Thinking Taxonomy  

• Reader-writer workshop

• Research Projects with Integration of Technology and Project-Based Learning

• Rubrics that set clear goals for advanced writing aligned with Common Core Standards

• Leveled Literature Circle Groups

• Accelerated Reader Program  

• Use of Depth and Complexity Icons to enrich the Core Content

• Enrichment Rotations focused on various Disciplines such as Hands-On-Equations (Algebra)

• The Arts (Music, Theater, Dance)

• Collaboration with MOCA  

• Kagan's Cooperative Learning Structures  

• Thinking Maps

• Global Issues and Current Events

• Mock Trials

• Field Trips and Guest Speakers

• Battle of the Books  

• GATE After-School Program run by STAR