Welcome to AIG!
The Academically and Intellectually Gifted progam at Ayden Middle School combines pull out and exploratory classes. This flexibility allows for differentiating the curriculum and for individualizing services for each student's needs. Each spring the department screens based on a combination of data to find students who may qualify as AIG in math or reading or both.
Students who qualify for the Day 1 class meet 90-120 minutes each week. Lessons explore one of three thematic units--Patterns, Conflict, or Change--and are common to all Pitt County AIG classes, providing challenge, rigor, and relevancy in addition to the core curriculum. This year's theme of Patterns involves finding patterns, evaluating their importance, and using them to predict and even affect the future. We offer lessons in mathematics, economics, literature, art, biology, and history. Additional lessons promote research and complex thinking skills, allowing students to pursue individual interests.
Most of the AMS AIG program is dedicated to differentiating curriculum among the regular classrooms. Working together, we design in-class and out-of-class lessons that best fit students' academic, intellectual, social and emotional needs. Pull out and inclusion services for math include applications and our Math Olympiad (MOEMS) teams at 6-8th grades. Reading groups--for Frankenstein and House of the Scorpion/Brave New World--and literature circles and well as our school newspaper comprise reading pull out services. I work closely will the regular language arts classroom teachers to support AIG growth and to nurture giftedness in others.
Students who qualify for the Day 1 class meet 90-120 minutes each week. Lessons explore one of three thematic units--Patterns, Conflict, or Change--and are common to all Pitt County AIG classes, providing challenge, rigor, and relevancy in addition to the core curriculum. This year's theme of Patterns involves finding patterns, evaluating their importance, and using them to predict and even affect the future. We offer lessons in mathematics, economics, literature, art, biology, and history. Additional lessons promote research and complex thinking skills, allowing students to pursue individual interests.
Most of the AMS AIG program is dedicated to differentiating curriculum among the regular classrooms. Working together, we design in-class and out-of-class lessons that best fit students' academic, intellectual, social and emotional needs. Pull out and inclusion services for math include applications and our Math Olympiad (MOEMS) teams at 6-8th grades. Reading groups--for Frankenstein and House of the Scorpion/Brave New World--and literature circles and well as our school newspaper comprise reading pull out services. I work closely will the regular language arts classroom teachers to support AIG growth and to nurture giftedness in others.
We're quite proud
Link to Sword and Shield, student news
When Schools to Watch visited in the fall of 2010, they were quite impressed with our online newspaper. Broadcreek Middle School's media coordinator was then inspired to have their students develop one too. What a compliment! We must, of course, give credit to Ana Valdez-Curiel, one of last year's staff, who chose to research and report on the process. It's just one example of how AIG students make changes happen.
Relevancy
Civil War Project 2010
Each spring, I work with the 8th grade social studies teachers on a community sewing project that we call the Civil War Project. During the winter, students explore the story behind Civil War era quilt patterns. Each student then chooses at minumum of one tie to the Civil War--a block, a fabric, or picture. Many also choose the recipient of their product from the beginning, like charity quilts or family gifts.
As one student put it this year, "There's so much MATH!" However, the cross curricular unit teaches students to problem solve and commit to and follow a detailed plan. Many have said that this project makes their year. Others claim to finally learn some of life's most important lessons like, "If you're gonna do something, do it right the FIRST time."
As one student put it this year, "There's so much MATH!" However, the cross curricular unit teaches students to problem solve and commit to and follow a detailed plan. Many have said that this project makes their year. Others claim to finally learn some of life's most important lessons like, "If you're gonna do something, do it right the FIRST time."
