Students in Welch Elementary’s REACH program for Gifted Students are involved in weekly activities throughout the school year which can enhance their learning.
“Students come to REACH one day per week to participate in activities and assignments centered on a theme,” said Welch’s gifted teacher Sharon Crawley. “Through thematic interdisciplinary units, the teacher helps students to see connections across the curriculum, and thus help to make individual parts of the curriculum more meaningful. More importantly, interdisciplinary units encompass not only low order levels of thinking such as knowledge, comprehension, and application, but also high order levels of thinking such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.”