Enrichment involves activities, skills, lessons, and learning opportunities for every child in the school outside of the realm of the standard curriculum for each grade level.  The activities may involve learning creative thinking skills, specific skills needed for the broadening of an academic area, field trips, assemblies, pull out programs for high ability learners, pull out programs for students with a special interest, mini-units on a topic of student interests, …anything that either broadens the curriculum or goes outside the scope of the typical curriculum that brings new learning opportunities to students.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEM or the Schoolwide Enrichment Model is the model adopted by Timberlane.  This is a model developed by Dr. Joseph Renzulli (University of Connecticut).  The beauty of this model is that it opens non-typical learning opportunities to every child in the school and develops a “talent pool” of students that have potential to step beyond the curriculum at various times during their school career.

 

 

Talent pool-the top 15-20% of the student population that have shown above average ability and exhibit (or will learn) creativity in solving problems and/or creating unusual solutions, and show or learn task commitment to follow through with projects or learning endeavors outside of the typical curriculum.  The talent pool is flexible and is where students are drawn from for pull out programs for high ability tasks, skills, and units.

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