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Show Lakeside Review, Wednesday, August 26, 1987 5C Programs help 'gifted' CALLAHAN JO-AN- Lakeside Review correspondent . Andrew is FARMINGTON a youth who has an idea for a new airplane design. After studying at his school and finding out all he can about the design of airplanes, he needs further help. Through the school, a retired pilot is found who is involved in a model airplane club. Andrew goes with him to the airport and meets with the group. They give him all the help and model parts he needs to build his new type of airplane and to do experiments. Andrew is benefiting from a new student enrichment program. According to Gail Boch, enrichment specialist for the Davis School District, new things are happening in education. Last year some students were interested in the Renaissance. A special speaker was invited to the school and the junior high students participated in a fair they had planned. The kids loved it and as one boy explained, I had no idea the armor was so heavy and that they had such pride in their coat of arms. Several years ago, under Larry Wilson, who was then director of the gifted and talented program, the satellite schools program was started to provide enrichment activities for gifted elementary students. Children who qualify and. are recommended by parents and teachers are enrolled in fourth, fifth and sixth grade satellite classes in five schools in the county. Other enrichment programs are offered to students outside the Central Davis Junior High, are located in the northern end of the county because of area residents interest in the program, adding, but groups of mother volunteers are trying to organize similar programs in the south end of the county this year. Boch said the reduction in the programming as the students move from elementary to the districts junior high schools stems from a lack of funding. She said last year the gifted and talented program was cut by d of $37,000, more than its orginal budget, a move which obviously has hampered the defined gifted students in three areas. They have unusual ability and task commitment and they are creative. We have found that we can teach the second two things to children, she said. We have many children who met with a resource teacher and are identified as a gifted child. Every child is a child of promise, said Boch. We want to get all children involved in the thinking process. . one-thir- program. As state funds are provided to the district, additional junior high schools will be involved in the . Many teachers are teaching the enrichment program every day in the classroom. They invite special speakers, help children find things that they like to do and help them with research and special projects. We know what makes successful adults and we know we can help children to be successful but we need to start early, explained Mrs. Boch. We start in the elementary level by having those children who gifted and talented enrichment program, Boch said. Jeri Smith, coordinator for Kaysvilles Morgan Elementary gifted and talented program, referred to the lack of junior highs complete a task early buy time involved in the program as a and go to a talent pool where problem but said the district is they work on special things that interest them. The teachers are working on it. Funding is the big problem, wanting to help those children she said. Money is the basis of a who are at risk, who excel in one lot of it." subject and not in others, she Smith said she believes the dissaid. trict will eventually meet the deOn the junior high level the mands of the junior high program directors want to see students buy time to participate programs as the program develin debate teams, creative writing, ops over the years. Its a process, she said. math and science projects. So while the program matures, We need to allow the youth to the Morgan Elementary teacher try new things, to give them said some provisions in the juspace to work and grow. We also nior highs will be offered, such as need people in the community advancements in foreign language who have an expertise in an area and math. to serve as mentors for the youth, to help them, she said. The gifted student is identified Dr. Stephen Ronnenkamp, forin many ways. According to Robsatellite schools. ert Steberg, who has done years mer principal at Central Davis We knew that the students in of research in the matter, there Junior High School, implemented the satellite schools were not the are several types of intelligence: the enrichment program into his school last year. only gifted students. Most of the school-hous- e gifted, who althem were still in the neighborWe identified the activities ways seem to know the answers hood schools, said Boch. that we wanted to be involved in in school; the brilliant in real Now many of the students who skills, or street smart children; and the kids that would be part were enrolled in the satellite and the creatively gifted students. of the program. We also trained schools have moved into the juOther educators have named key teachers to help us with greatnior high school. the groups differently and the er thinking skills. We wanted the We have 14 elementary idea is that not all gifted stukids to develop more thinking schools and two junior high dents are doing well in school. skills. The program was working schools in the pilot programs for Many of these students are dropand it will continue to grow in enrichment schools, Boch said. the school, said Ronnenkamp. outs and are at risk in the school She said the secondary enrichWe feel all kids are gifted in system. ment schools. North Davis and one or two areas." In our pilot programs we have . Niederhauser, second vice president; Curt Niederhauser, president, and Wendi Birt, first vice president. LEADING the ninth grade, at Sunset Ju- nior High for the 1 937-8- 8 school year are new class officers, (from left) Debbie COMMUNITY i.vm .1..- CPR Class for M' "U " W1. WW-f- nu man,' II. - the Public Learn lifesaving techniques. Aug. 25, 6 to 1 0 p.m., Green Auditorium. Cosh $1 5. For registration call 625-276- Pediatric RehabJMon Conference Conference will address the to Thursday, Sept. 1 7, Ogden Hilton. 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