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Amphitheater Public Schools

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REACH Middel School Humanities Program

    • Gifted 6th – 8th grade gifted students are enrolled in a Humanities course that serves as their Social Studies class.
    • Humanities class allows students to learn with their intellectual peers.
    • Students receive embedded social emotional lessons with students who have similar gifted characteristics and needs.
    • Humanities provides complex project and problem based instruction that utilizes differentiated processes and products and appropriate learning environment for students in all identified areas of giftedness.
    • Compacting/Extension projects
    • Tiered lessons
    • Greater breadth and depth of subject matter (still addressing the Arizona State Standards)
    • All students in the classroom receive instruction at the appropriate level of challenge.
    • Students are able to work with various groupings, dependent on their needs and the learning objectives.
    • Students learn to become more self-directed.
    • Students interact with their REACH teacher every day.