| Welome to Coronado Middle School REACH!
| | | The middle school REACH program (Realizing Excellence through Academic and Creative Help)at Coronado K-8 School serves the needs of those students identified as gifted in the verbal, quantitative, or non-verbal areas. |
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Middle School REACH curriculum
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Gifted instruction at Coronado is addressed in many ways. First is Humanities for 6th, 7th and 8th graders. Students attend Humanities class instead of Social Studies. The Humanities classes cover the Arizona State Social Studies Standards and extensions through literature, art, and music. The 6th grade curriculum is concerned with World History from the beginning of civilization through the Age of Enlightenment. The seventh grade curriculum deals with American History from the Civil War through the end of the Great Depression. The 8th grade curriculum starts where the 7th grade leaves off and continues through the present. Eighth grade also includes a unit on civics and government. (For individual details on each grade level/class, please refer to Coronado's home page, and then access specific teachers for 6th and 8th grade - I teach the 7th grade Humanities/Social Studies).
In addition, there is a REACH elective, provided for REACH-identified students in 6th-8th grades. In this elective class, students explore their own learning styles, participate in individualized learning projects and outside community projects, as well as being provided the opportunity to participate in competetive programs such as Odyssey of the Mind and Future Problem Solving (click these hot-links for more information int ehse great programs!).
Testing for the gifted program is done twice each year at Coronado. Students are tested using the Cognitive Abilities Test. Early in the fall, just after school begins, testing is done in order to accomodate students new to the district who may have participated in a gifted program elsewhere, but need to test in Arizona to meet Arizona standards for qualification. Testing is repeated in February or early March. In order for a child to be tested a permission to test form has to be filed out and on file with the REACH department. Permission to test forms are available on the internet(see link below), in the school office, or from the REACH teacher. Parents, teachers, or even students can refer a child to be tested.
Please contact me if you should have any questions about the REACH program at Coronado! |
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