Mrs. Kidwell

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About The Teacher
I have been a member of the Dunloggin family for 14 years. I hold a master's degree in Gifted Education from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to working in middle school, I was an elementary and middle school teacher with experience in kindergarten, second grade, third grade, and sixth grade. My personal goal is to provide a service to our students and their families which ensures a rich and advanced opportunity to excel.

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Mission
In Howard County and at Dunloggin Middle School we strive to provide your child with the best education possible by developing their individual capabilites. We feel that the many choices we offer will achieve our goal. Our Gifted and Talented program which is accelerated and enriched is quite unique in that, it features many opportunities for your child to participate. Our highly structured classes allow the student the means of unlimited exploration. We encourage the student who participates in gifted classes to use high level divergent thinking skills, be motivated to work and use abstract reasoning. We offer the opportunity to conduct independent investigations on topics of interest and become the acting professional. Our teachers differentiate their curriculum in many ways to meet the needs of their students. Differentiation includes: content that is related to broad-based issues, themes, or problems: in-depth learning of self-selected topics within the area of study; encourage the development of products that challenge exisitng ideas and produce "new" ideas, new techniques, materials, and forms; focus on open-ended tasks, and develop research skills and methods. This web page is an overview of the GT program and particularly what Dunloggin Middle School has to offer.