How are students placed in the GT Program?
A comprehensive procedures guide for the referral, identification, and placement of the students is utilized. Identification is an ongoing process. Referrals may come from staff, peers, parents, community, or students.

Subjective and objective measures which assess both cognitive and noncognitive areas are used to evaluate student need for services. Each school has a school-based committee, which reviews the case-study data collected and makes recommendations for student placement based upon student need. Students moving in from other districts or states will be reevaluated using the placement criteria of the Conway program. 

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What are the instructional options for students placed in the program?

• The elementary "Pinnacle Program" and 6th-9th Pre-AP/GT instructional models are academically enriched programs in which the curriculum is differentiated. Instruction is student-centered, involving student choices, and is quicker paced. Topics emphasize creativity, problem solving, and higher level thinking skills. Mastery of a topic of study is not the sole objective. Additional objectives include: a depth in thinking, breadth and depth of activities, personal interpretation, personal challenge, and attainment of concepts at higher levels of abstraction or complexity. The curriculum is meant to be interesting as well as to provide creative experiences with challenging projects and quality production. Students are to work on developing responsibility for their own learning and growth.
• College Board Advance Placement courses are offered in English, mathematics, science, social studies, computer science, and foreign languages at the high school. A counseling component is also available.

Other Instructinoal Options

• Quiz Bowl, Odyssey of the Mind & DI.
• Pre-advanced placement accelerated courses in the core areas at the secondary level.
• Arkansas Governor's School
• Acceleration in an option for those students who need a change in grade placement

• Be unusually curious.
• Have a unusually large vocabulary for age.
• Display long-term recall of much information.
• Demonstrate intense concentration.
• Learn to read on his or her own.
• Possess keen sense of humor.
• Show unusually independence of age.
• Be creative and imaginative beyond age mates.
• Tend to be a perfectionist.
• Sustain interest in one or more fields of knowledge over years.
• Have self-directed interests.
• Easily master intellectual skills.
• Be interested in and concerned about community/world problems.
• Often be self-critical and overly sensitive.
• Continually question the status quo.
• Apply learning from one situation to another.
• Solve problems in a unique manner.
• Have different behavior style.
• Enjoy reading about a wide range of topics.
• Reason abstractly.