Port
Enrichment
Program
2004-2005
Meeting the Diverse Needs of
Students
PEP Program Goals
PEP encourages students to:
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Demonstrate divergent and creative
thinking
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Participate in group decision making
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Implement problem solving skills
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Produce creative solutions to problems
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Develop good questioning techniques
PEP Program Goals
(continued)
PEP encourages students to:
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Acquire advanced technology skills that can
be applied across the curriculum
Function at higher levels of cognitive and
abstract thinking (analysis, application,
synthesis, evaluation)
Establish hypotheses, and use the scientific
method to arrive at valid conclusions
Elementary PEP Components
 School Wide Enrichment
 Challenge Workshops
 Staff Development
 Core Group Program
School Wide Enrichment
The PEP teacher works with
all students (K-5), teaching
enrichment units of study in
the regular classroom.
School wide enrichment
involves curriculum
development and modeling
of instruction.
Sample of Primary
Enrichment Units
 Attribute Logic
 Data, Chance, & Probability
 Involving Dissolving
 Creative Dramatics
Sample of Intermediate
Enrichment Units
 Cooperative
Problem Solving
 Crime Lab
Chemistry
 Architecture
 Creative
Language
Additional Enrichment:
Math Olympiads
 All fourth and fifth year
students have the
opportunity to participate
 Students are challenged with
non-routine, multi-step
mathematical problems
 Five monthly Olympiads are
administered (NovemberMarch)
 Pre- and post-strategy
sessions are held.
PEP Challenge Workshops
PEP Challenge Workshops are
rigorous and designed to reflect the
diversity of student learning styles,
multiple intelligences and interests.
Every student in grades 3 and 4 had the
opportunity to select a PEP Challenge
Workshop in which to participate.
PEP Challenge Workshops are offered
during lunch/recess.
Third Grade
PEP Challenge Workshops
Brain Bubblers
(Strategic Thinking)
Computer Cartooning
(Computer Animation)
Paper Shapers
(Spatial Reasoning)
Sweet Science
(Kitchen Chemistry)
Third Grade
PEP Challenge Workshops
Accommodating All Interested Students
13%
87%
Not
Interested
3rd Graders
Attending
Challenge
Workshops
328 third graders are
participating district-wide
Fourth Grade
PEP Challenge Workshops
Mystery Science
(Forensics)
Sky’s the Limit
(Aerodynamics)
Smart Shoppers
(Consumer Science)
Web Explorers
(Internet Research/Web Design)
Fourth Grade
PEP Challenge Workshops:
Accommodating All Interested Students
14%
86%
Not
Interested
4th Graders
Attending
Challenge
Workshops
337 fourth graders are
participating district-wide
Staff Development
 Conference with teachers
to plan class activities
 Serve as a resource person
for materials and methods
 Participate in joint planning for
team teaching activities
Core Group Program
 The PEP Core Group component
offers instruction to qualifying
3rd, 4th, and 5th grade
students.
 Core Group students meet with
the PEP teacher, in a pull-out
format, for a total of two and
one-half hours per week.
Core Group Selection Criteria
(Starting in Third Year)
 Standardized test scores
in math and/or reading
 Teacher appraisals
 Individual I.Q. test
Core Group Curriculum
 Student driven
 Enhances curriculum
Academically rigorous
Fosters accountability
Core Program Goals
In addition to general PEP Goals, Core
Group Students are expected to:
 Foster individual responsibility and
accountability
 Develop public speaking and presentation
skills
 Apply academic skills to simulations
 Exhibit fluent, flexible, original and
elaborative thinking.
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