What is the KEY program in the Eden Prairie schools?
KEY is Eden Prairies program for gifted and talented students in 1st through 6th grade. All KEY students engage in activities utilizing problem solving, higher level thinking skills, and advanced topics. Students dont work specifically on subject areas such as math or science in KEY; those subjects are integrated into the problem solving and thinking skill activities. Students will do some assignments and activities in KEY that will be assessed. These grades wont go on their report cards, but will serve as indicators of students progress and growth.** The program in first and second grade is flexible and designed around the needs of the particular students involved. Students may remain in the regular classroom and work on extension activities with the classroom teacher and/or the gifted and talented resource teacher, or students may leave their regular classroom to work with the gifted and talented teacher in the resource room. In grades 1 and 2 a typical range of service is up to 2 ho
