Highly Capable Services

As we continue our district-wide focus on student talk and questioning, these present another opportunity for differentiation as part of our Highly Capable services.

As we have been exploring, meaningful academic discourse and rich questions can deepen learning, push thinking, and promote new learning.

As you and your PLC are planning key GVC instructional units and outline the academic questions you will use,

For example, the overarching unit focus for our 3rd Grade ELA GVC Module 1: Unit 3 is, “scholars will explore how geography impacts readers’ access to books.” This unit focus could be differentiated for Highly Capable identified scholars (and other scholars needing enrichment) in the form of a question centered in DOK Levels 3 and 4such as... “What if the impact of geography on a reader’s access to books? Compare and contrast four different nations on at least two different continents. Be sure to share one way you believe each country could mitigate their geographical impact to books.” A complex question like this would allow for differentiated learning opportunities for scholars to conduct research, push their critical thinking, and (by sharing their learning with others in the classroom) increase the learning for themselves and other scholars as well.