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Gifted News 2007-08 School Year In 2007-08, the Shiloh Middle School Gifted classes will be maximizing the number of students in each class, up to the legal limit of 21 students. This will allow us to give each gifted student more gifted classes, giving every student the opportunity to excel in as many academic areas as possible. We will be welcoming Mr. Jay Barbour and Ms. Margie Hartley to the gifted teaching rosters in 6th grade, and Ms. Michelle Nichols to the 8th grade gifted faculty. Mr. Barbour has been teaching Language Arts in 7th grade at Shiloh; he will be on a 6th grade team. Ms. Hartley is a long-time Shiloh science teacher, she will add one gifted class to her schedule. Ms. Nichols has completed her second year teaching 8th grade math; she will also add one gifted class to her schedule. High School Options Shiloh High School is not the only option for Shiloh Middle School graduates. Our 2007 graduating class will be sending four students to the International Baccalaurate Program at Norcross High School and more than twenty to the new charter high school, the Gwinnett School for Mathematics, Science and Technology. We'll invite them back next spring to talk to current 8th graders about these exciting and challenging programs! Field Trips Last January, Mrs. Martin's 7th grade science students visited the new Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center where they made friends with horseshoe crabs, hermit crabs and other Georgia wildlife.
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 8th graders examine the water source for the thousands of Civil War prisoners at Andersonville Prison. |
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How to Qualify for the Gifted Program Placing students into the gifted education program at Shiloh is a continuous process which normally starts with a referral from a teacher or parent. Details of the qualification process are available on the Gwinnett County Schools web site. 7th Grade Field Trip Shiloh gifted seventh graders recently visited the antiquities collection at the Michael C. Carlos Museum (Emory University) and the 8th graders visited the Andersonville Civil War site and Franklin Roosevelt's Little White House at Warm Springs in Middle Georgia. Both of these trips correlate with the Social Studies curriculum. Jekyll Island is another 7th grade destination: they studied the ecology of coastal Georgia. For some students, this was their first visit to the ocean.
Last updated August 6, 2007 |
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