Program Description
The Friedell Middle School Highly Gifted Program is a school within a school. The program is designed to meet the unique educational, social, and emotional needs of highly gifted students in grade 6, grade 7, and grade 8, while still being part of a regular middle school experience. The advanced curricular content focuses students on the depth and complexity of learning and knowledge. Learning key concepts develops students' understanding of the relationships within, between, and among disciplines. Educational challenges promote student opportunities for manipulating information at complex levels by using divergent and higher order thinking models.
Differentiated instruction is used to meet the sophisticated learning needs of highly gifted students in this program. The program provides a highly rigorous content at an accelerated pace; therefore, this program is not for all students. Students develop a healthy sense of self through an understanding of individual uniqueness; they foster appropriate expectations of self and others, and encourage risk-taking behaviors in intellectual contexts. Students in this program take part in four advanced subject disciplines: science, social studies, mathematics, and language arts. Additionally, these students participate in standard offerings such as music, physical education, and exploratory classes.
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Program Requirements
2010 - 2011 Criteria:
Students and families considering this option must meet ONE of the following criteria:
1. OLSAT test composite score of 130 or higher; or
2. CogAT test composite score of 133 or higher; or
3. Stanford test total in Reading = 98 NPR or higher
AND Stanford test total in Math = 98 NPR or higher
AND an OLSAT composite score of 125 or higher; or
4. Stanford test total in Reading = 98 NPR or higher
AND Stanford test total in Math = 98 NPR or higher
AND a CogAT composite score of 128 or higher; or
5. A portfolio of exemplary work may be submitted.
Contact Cindy Martenson, Coordinator of Gifted
Services, by Friday, December 17, 2010 to request
a portfolio for your student. She can be reached
at 507-328-4275 or
The student's current classroom teacher oversees
the completion of the portfolio.
Please Click the link below to learn more about the requirements and important dates.
www.rochester.k12.mn.us/school106/HG
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Timeline for Application 2010 - 2011
November 1-12, 2010
CogAT testing for interested fifth-graders at elementary sites
November 20, 2010
Make-up date for CogAT test at Friedell Middle School
December
Results of CogAT testing will be mailed to families
December 17, 2010
Deadline for portfolio requests
3:00 p.m.
January 25, 2011
Applications (Application to the HG program and application to Friedell) and portfolios due Office of Gifted Services
Due: 3:00 P.M.
Week of January 24, 2011
Applications and portfolios reviewed
Early February 2011
Student/Family notification of acceptance/non-acceptance mailed
February 9, 2011
Signed attendance confirmation due at Friedell Middle School office
Applications will be available on-line - You must apply to BOTH Friedell & the Highly Gifted Program
For additional information, please contact Joanne Michet or Monica Bowler at Friedell Middle School at 328-5650, or Cindy Martenson, Secondary Gifted Services Coordinator at 328-4275.
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Portfolio Option
If an incoming sixth or seventh grade student would like to be considered for admission into the Highly Gifted Program, but does not qualify through standardized testing criteria, he or she may qualify by submitting a portfolio.
Please Click PORTFOLIO OPTION above
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