Gate Seminar
The Loma Portal Seminar class is structured with a reduced class size of 20. It will be a combination classroom of third and fourth graders. Our emphasis at Loma Portal is to bring technology into the classroom, enabling students to synthesize their knowledge in new and creative ways, connecting with our global society. Students will have daily access to the 10 computers in the Seminar classroom to learn typing skills, do research, and put together presentations for later publishing and sharing with parents, as well as weekly access to the school’s computer lab. All projects are done in the classroom to increase student independence and prepare them for Dana Middle School. Students engage in rich conversation during direct instruction to further their understanding of a topic. Curriculum Differentiation of content, process, product and learning community is an ongoing method of instruction. Parents can make an appointment to observe the classroom environment and see work samples.
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School Program Goals
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To provide for differentiation of content, process, product, and learning environment
commensurate with abilities and talents of GATE students in order to create life-long learners. |
To foster participation in challenging capstone courses by introducing, in earlier grades,
the skills, concepts and habits of mind needed for success in rigorous courses. |
To foster creativity, talent development, and self-generating, problem-solving abilities
to expand each student's awareness of choices for satisfying contributions to society. |
To support the social and emotional needs of gifted students in order to help students
develop healthy self-concepts, increase commitment to personal responsibility and
responsibility towards others, and cultivate sensitivity and constructive ethical standards. |
To encourage and model respect for the full range of diversity among individuals with
gifts and talents: cultural, socio-economic, language, and double-labeled. |
To address the needs of underachieving GATE students. |
To assure consistent participation of parents and community members in the
planning and evaluation or programs for gifted students. |
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District Support
To provide professional development opportunities related to gifted education to
administrators, teachers, counselors, and GATE department staff to support and
improve educational opportunities for gifted students. |
To establish formal and informal evaluation methods and instruments that assess
the gifted program and performance of gifted students (which meet or exceed
state content standards), and to use the results to improve gifted programs and
gifted student performance. |
To provide an equitable, comprehensive, and ongoing identification process that
adheres to the current state criteria. |
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