What is the Advanced Academics or GT program
Advanced Academics includes education for students, K-12, who need to be taught at a faster pace and/or at a more complex level than their peers in order to thrive educationally. All classrooms address the needs of advanced learners. The Gifted and Talented (GT) program requires students to be with a teacher who has extra training to meet the content, instructional, and emotional needs of gifted students. G/T Students participate in an enrichment pullout program called PFLEX—Pflugerville Learning Extensions.
What is PFLEX?
PFLEX is a pull-out program for studnets offically identified as Gifted within the Pflugerville School District. Students recieve specialized instruction for approximately 90 minutes per week. Click to download the "PFLEX Pfacts for Parents."Below is the outline of the PFLEX curriculum.
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CONCEPT
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Engineering |
2008-2009 Structural Design
2009-2010 Robotics to Solve Real-World Problems
Students will engage in the creative application of technical, scientific and mathematical knowledge as they design and develop machines, structures, and other systems to solve and explore real world dilemmas. Students will expand their proficiency in technology and robotics as they practice the engineering process from the conception of an idea to the final prototype. This immersive approach will prepare students to become responsible consumers and producers of safe, sustainable goods and services.
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World History
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2008-2009 Egypt
2009-2010 Renaissance
Identify and describe selected historical periods and patterns of change within and across cultures, such as the rise of civilizations, the development of transportation
systems, the growth and breakdown of colonial systems, and others. Examine persistent issues involving the rights, roles, and status of the individual in relation to the general welfare. Explore the causes, consequences, and possible solutions to persistent, contemporary, and emerging global issues, such as health, security, resource allocation, economic development and environmental quality. |
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Humanities/Fine Arts |
2008-2009 Symbolic Representations
2009-2010 Modern Art
Communicate beyond a basic level in the four arts disciplines--dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts; develop and present basic analyses of works of art from structural, historical, and cultural perspectives, and from combinations of those perspectives; have an informed acquaintance with exemplary works of art from a variety of cultures and historical periods, and a basic understanding of historical development in the arts disciplines, across the arts as a whole, and within cultures; relate various types of arts knowledge and skills within and across the arts disciplines; students can arrive at a broad-based, well-grounded understanding of the nature, value, and meaning of the arts as a part of their own humanity. |
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Survival Skills and Metacognition
(Social, Emotional, and Cultural Needs of Gifted Students) |
2008-2009 Character Education
2009-2010 Identity
The unique social, emotional, and metacognitive differences of gifted learners are nurtured through lessons on asynchronous development, personal/social awareness and adjustment, academic planning, vocational/career awareness, characteristics and socio-emotional needs (underachievement, multipotentiality, etc.). | |
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