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Students seek self-study, depth
through school's gifted program
By MELODY BACAS
Stall Writer
The gifted program in Perry of
fers a lot of opportunity for excep
tionally intelligent or creative stu
dents, according to one teacher in
the program.
Becky Crockett, who leaches
honor's English at Perry Middle
School, said the honors courses
help students gel beyond the basic
facts.
"Instead of teaching just facts,
we encourage students to go a step
deeper and interpret the facts," she
said.
Crockett said gifted children need
that extra zest in education. Other
wise, they might go the other ex
treme and do poorly in school.
They gel bored easily, she said.
"If they do get bored, they can be
disruptive. This gives them chan
nels for that energy," Crockett said.
Some of the goals of the gifted
program in Houston County arc to
offer more enrichment activities to
the student, more independent
study, self-direction, improve lead
ership abilities, and sharpen inquiry
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Georgia Scholars
Perry High School seniors Bruce Munger, Chris Cosby
and Michael Sargent received pins and certificates for
being named "Georgia Scholars." The Georgia Scholar
Program is a state effort to identify and recognize se
niors who have achieved excellence. The "scholars” are
eligible for a Governor's Scholaship of $1,250 each
academic year for tuition if they attend an approved
university in Georgia. Nine seniors from Houston Coun
try received the honor.
Reading club begins June 5
"Find Time for Mystery Read"
is the theme for this year's Perry-
Houston County Public Library
Summer Reading Club.
Opening day for the club will be
on Monday, June 5. Children can
pick up a reading club folder
Monday, and register for prizes each
week. Activities will be held at the
Library from 10 to 2 on opening
day. There will be weekly activity
sheets at the front desk of the
Library.
Children of all ages can sign up
in teams of two for the scavenger
hunt. Pick up rules at the front desk
of the Library.
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skills and critical thinking.
According to Houston Board of
Education records, 786 arc enrolled
in the gifted program in this
county. That includes elementary,
middle and high schools. In Perry,
there are 32 from elementary
schools enrolled, 25 at Perry Middle
and 32 at Perry High.
Crockett said in kindergarten
through second grade children must
be in the 99 percentile on the IQ
test to be in the gifted program,
called Focus.
Those in third grade and up must be
in the 96 percentile on the IQ test,
plus be in the 85 percentile on
standardized achievement tests.
Students who may not be in the
85 pciccnlilc, but who arc in the 90
percentile on cither math or verbal
arc also eligible, Crockett said.
Crockett said IQ tests at PMS
arc given in groups at the begin
ning of the year, but individualized
tests arc also available.
Teachers or parents must rec
ommend students for the program.
Parents must sign permission slips
for all testing and to enter the pro
This year's program will
continue until August 12, and will
feature puppets, storytimes, special
guests, games, puzzles, films and
videos.
Children will cam certificates for
lime spent reading, being read to
and attending library programs.
Certificates will be issued between
August 1 and 12. Lists of certificate
recipients will be sent to local
schools.
This year's program is different
because certificates will be awarded
for lime spent in reading experi
ences rather than for the number of
books read.
gram.
The student must maintain a "B”
average to stay in the classes, ac
cording to Crockett.
Crockett said the middle school
honors program is much different
from the Focus program. Children
in Focus go to honor’s class one
day a week and learn more problem
solving skills and logic.
"When they move into the mid
dle school, it's structured where
there are two academic classes
which are science and English. We
leach the gifted everyday, not once a
week,” Crockett said.
Crockett said gifted classes arc
usually smaller, so individualized
help can be given. Students can re
search the course of study further
than other students 100. Textbooks
arc somewhat different, according to
the teacher. For instance, she uses
an eighth-grade English book for
her seventh-grade honors class.
Seventh grade science includes
earth science and physical science
while eighth grade honors students
study chemistry and physical sci
ence.
The English courses for both
grades contains traditional instruc
tion in grammar, composition, vo
cabulary and literature. However, it
also contains a study of mythology
and Greek and Romas culture.
Teachers are also required to work
students through a unit of test-tak
ing skills with special emphasis on
the PS AT.
Crockett said being in a middle
school honor's program will qualify
students for the high school pro
gram.
She also said many people, in
cluding parents and teachers, don't
understand gifted children. Some
think they should be more mature
than their age because their intelli
gent or than they should be bright
in all subjects.
Neither is true.
"They are children first and gifted
second," she said. "They may be
gifted in one thing and not in an
other. They are all different."
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