Heard Mixon Elementary

Quest  

Program Description:

The Quest program serves gifted students in grades K-5. Students are taught challenging skills, concepts, and strategies that enhance and extend what they learn in the regular classroom. They participate in a variety of enriching activities that help them become better critical thinkers and problem solvers.

Program Models:

Resource Model (Grades K-4) - Students who qualify for gifted services attend the gifted resource class one day each week.

Cluster Model (Grade 5) - Students are placed (clustered) in an accelerated Language Arts class taught by a gifted endorsed teacher. This instruction takes place every day. Students also attend the gifted resource class for a few hours one day each week.

Schedule:

Monday - 1st and 2nd Grades
Tuesday - 4th and 5th Grades
Wednesday - 3rd Grade

Curriculum:

• Science/Inventions:
  The special unit study this year primarily focuses on Science, with a special emphasis on Inventions. Each class is taught basic principles that broaden their reasearch skills, knowledge of important inventors and inventions, as well as enriches their creativity . They not only learn about the importance of inventions, but how to do the research and become and inventor themselves.
• Critical Thinking/Logic Problems:
  Students are exposed to variety of critical thinking and logic problem activities that enable them to develop producitive, complex, abstract, and higher level thinking skills.
• Vocabulary:
  Another component of the curriculum is vocabulary. The children have the opportunity to learn many new words that are derived from Latin and Greek. These words improve and broaden their vocabulary while providing them with the necessary skills required for figuring out the meanings of unknown words.

The Quest curriculum is based on the state standards and learning objectives called the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS). These establish instructional guidelines and set goals for teaching and learning.


Additional Information:
For more information on procedures, criteria, assessment, and other components of the gifted program, please refer to the following websites.

Newton County Schools Gifted Program
Georgia Department of Education Gifted Program

Thank you for your interest in the Quest Program.