Instructional courses cover humanities, sciences and mathematics, visual and performing arts, and fitness and recreation. Some courses fall under the category of “multi-disciplinary” and involve students in learning experiences that cross traditional boundaries of study. Courses are taught at levels appropriately challenging for academically gifted students in grades 4 through 11.

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Instructional Strategies
The teaching staff employs strategies that have proved to be particularly effective in stimulating and motivating academically gifted students. In addition to traditional methods, such as lecture, question and answer sessions, and discussion groups, instructors use hands-on methods of learning that promote active participation, creativity and higher order thinking skills. Such strategies include debate, construction of models, simulations, dramatic performances, legal briefs, and other demonstrations and projects that involve high levels of participatory learning.