How are gifted students educated in Eden Prairie schools?
Eden Prairie Schools provide two avenues at the elementary level for meeting individual students needs for challenge. For all students, the regular classroom curriculum is designed to include higher level thinking activities, authentic assessments, and numerous opportunities for extensions and enrichment. Identified gifted and talented learners in the KEY program are grouped within regular classrooms. In a KEY classroom [a regular classroom that includes some KEY students], the emphasis is to provide opportunities for these students to interact with peers with similar skills and interests and utilize higher-order thinking skills to explore subjects in greater depth. The second avenue is the KEY program, in which a gifted and talented resource teacher is available at each building to work with identified gifted and talented students in a resource setting.** **This information is found in the Gifted Services Program Handbook published by Eden Prairie School District 272, and distributed
