Gifted students display their talents at the Shakespeare festival.

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Overview The Great Neck Middle School Gifted Program serves students through a cluster/resource model. In this model, our intellectually gifted students are clustered together and placed on specific teams. Our gifted program provides differentiated instruction through collaboration of core teachers and the gifted resource teacher, Mrs. Susewind. Gifted students interact with their teachers and classmates in a heterogeneous setting, while benefiting from the curricular modification of content, process, product, and learning environment. Mrs. Susewind also offers monthly staff development opportunities to assist teachers in the use of instructional strategies and thus, enabling them to better provide for the needs of gifted students. Students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade can still attend ODC for art or dance.

How might this demonstration explain why the sky is blue?

Referrals and Screenings
Students may be considered for gifted programs through referral by parents, guardians, teachers, or self-nomination. Referral forms for the intellectual program are available from the gifted resource teacher and may be submitted at any time during the academic year. Separate referral forms and applications are available for Kemps Landing Magnet School, Old Donation Center’s Visual Arts Program, Old Donation Center’s Dance Program, The Secondary Arts Enrichment Program, The Governor’s School for the Arts, and the various high school academy programs.

Questions? Please contact Mrs. Susewind, Great Neck Middle School’s Gifted Resource Teacher
648-4550 - ext. 61886 or e-mail catherine.susewind@vbschools.com

Gifted Resource Links