INTRODUCING THE CHALLENGE LAB

What:  A place where academically advanced, gifted and talented, and students who benefit from individualized challenges may be served

Why:  To enhance students’ learning beyond the differentiation offered in the classroom and to celebrate academic achievement

How:  By  working with teachers to ensure the lab activities support and extend the classroom curriculum

IS a place that...

Allows independent exploration

Requires higher-level thinking

Helps students produce advanced-level products

Offers depth and complexity

Embraces cooperative learning

Teaches problem-solving

Encourages creativity

Addresses academic and social needs

Develops lifelong learners

IT IS NOT:

A computer lab

A “Gifted Only” program

A substitute for differentiation in the classroom