Lake+Myra+AIG+Program

=Welcome to the AIG program at Lake Myra!= As an avenue to meet the needs of every learner here at Lake Myra, we focus on enrichment and differentiation. Many programs are in place to ensure level 4 opportunities are provided and encouraged. We believe that all students are capable of learning to practice higher order thinking skills, therefore our classroom instruction and learning activities are based on the highest levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. In a classroom visit you will routinely see a caring environment where students analyze, evaluate, and create through collaboration, critical thinking, and communication. All K-5 classrooms use the instructional program “Building Thinking Skills”, a curriculum providing verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve students’ vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. Students identify similarities and differences and work with classifications, analogies, and sequencing activities. This research based program helps children develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects. Students in grades K-3 who are identified as needing further enrichment activities in addition to classroom differentiation participate in the AIG KITS program provided by Wake County. Parents and other volunteers are trained by the AIG teacher to work with small groups of students on activities focusing on the top layers of Bloom’s Taxonomy through content area “KITS” (Kids Into Thinking) which integrate with the Standard Course of Study. Some examples of learning units are Birds, Weather, Living Smart, Matter, Animal Life Cycles, Economics, and Heroes. As part of the WCPSS AIG program, 3rd graders participate in the Explorers Program. The 3rd grade Explorers Model provides an oppor­tunity for the AIG resource teacher to collaborate with third grade teachers and provide a variety of in-class ex­periences. Units provided at Lake Myra include Visual Thinking, Patterns, Poetry, Divergent Thinking, Convergent Thinking, and Problem Solving. Students who demonstrate high performance during whole group lessons will participate in small-group enrichment activities in language arts and/or mathematics with the AIG resource teacher. Identifying students for the AIG pull-out program takes place in the spring of students’ third grade year. For a complete description of the AIG program please go to the AIG website at [|**http://www.wcpss.net/curriculum-instruction/ag/**]