GIFTED TALENTED & ENRICHMENT
GTE PHILOSOPHY
Concordia Lutheran’s gifted students need a qualitatively differentiated program that is advanced, complex, and in-depth.
CORE VALUES
- Guide students to use high intellectual abilities to impact how they and others see, believe, and receive Jesus, and serve Him with their gifts.
- Develop advanced, interactive relationships and strong communication skills to clearly articulate original ideas.
- Mastery of complex processes of in-depth subject matter, shown through well designed, meaningful products.
PROGRAM GOALS
The core purpose of the Concordia gifted program is to facilitate the optimal development of student’s intellectual gifts and talents.
Optimal development includes…
- producing the highest level of adaptive problem solvers and perceptive thinkers
- creating highly effective communicators
- guiding learners to be focused and self directed
- creating self-actualizing children of God
- nurturing in-depth intrapersonal and interpersonal potential
- developing creative, analytical, and evaluative thinking skills through inquiry and/or project based learning
I stand very confident that my son will thrive in the most accelerated programs and be successful in the most competitive of environments due to his strong academic and spiritual foundation.