Mr. Block, Challenge

1. What is the Challenge Program?
2. What is my child doing differently in your class from his/her homeroom?
3. What will my child be doing this year in challenge?

What is the Challenge Program?

The Atlanta Public School's Program for the Gifted and Talented, also known 
as The Challenge Program, is flexible and individualized to provide for the 
maximum development of academic talents. Guidelines for enrollment in the 
program are available at each school. The APS Gifted Program operates in 
every APS school although service delivery models vary from site to site. 
The academic focus of the APS Gifted Program follows the recommended Georgia 
Gifted Program Curriculum Standards and includes instructional activities 
designed to assure that the students who participate in our gifted program 
develop and demonstrate: 

Advanced critical thinking skills 
Advanced communication skills 
Advanced research and reference skills 
Advanced creativity skills 
An understanding of the impact of their giftedness on their social and 
emotional well being

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What is my child doing differently in your class from his/her homeroom?

EVERYTHING!! My class is a place where the children are free to think  & learn
however they choose.  There is limited direct instruction in challenge, which
allows the students to guide their own learning.

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What will my child be doing this year in challenge?

C - Creative Thinking
H - Having Fun!
A - Attempting things they have never done before 
L - Logic Puzzles
L - Learning to accept frustration
E - Engaging hands-on learning
N - New ways of thinking; critically
G - Group activities
E - Exciting stories from the Jr. Great Book series

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