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Vogler, Nancy
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AIM is accelerated, advanced, differentiated, and individualized instruction.  Gifted stu

AIM is accelerated, advanced, differentiated, and individualized instruction.  Gifted students have special educational needs that can best be met in the gifted classroom.  They need to be challenged, stretched, and enriched.  Middle school AIM is an advanced and accelerated content area (Language Arts) class in which students will meet and exceed the minimum requirements of the parish and state curriculum grade level expectations.  Because gifted students need a rigorous and challenging academic climate, AIM classes provide opportunities to “go above and beyond” the standard curriculum.  Being in a small group with individualized instruction and personal attention from the teacher is something these students really need and rarely receive in the general school setting.  A flexible, yet challenging classroom environment is particularly essential for AIM students.

We approach learning as a fun adventure in this class.  Even in this “specialized environment,” certain requirements and standards must be met and followed.  AIM students will be expected to follow class and Benton Middle School rules and policies school at all times.  Middle school students are expected to practice and exhibit personal responsibility.   This is an area of special emphasis for us in AIM.  Utilizing our time responsibly and constructively is a constant goal for us in AIM.

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The Legend of the Pink Monkey

 

Some time ago, some behavioral psychologists were studying a tribe of monkeys and how they interacted with one another.  For some reason which only a behavioral psychologist could hope to understand, they dyed one of the monkeys pink and placed it back in the tribe.  The other monkeys attacked it so viciously that they had to race to its rescue before it was killed. 

 

We learn that being different is dangerous.  Most troubling perhaps is that as we all get more adept as we grow older at wearing our “brown monkey suits” to avoid being attacked. This means that we not only can’t really relate to the other brown monkeys, but we have a hard time identifying the other pink monkeys.

 

It seems that gifted kids are often not fated to have great crowds of friends, simply because there are so few of them.  It tends to be a lifelong issue that doesn’t end just because they have grown up.  But they will almost always develop a few deeply satisfying and fulfilling friendships that tend to endure through the years.

 

This legend is important to share with intellectually gifted children because they need to know that other pink monkeys do exist and eventually we do find each other.  Gifted programs help with that.  Pink monkeys are allowed the safety and freedom to wear their pink monkey suits (whether it is pastel pink or hot pink) and be with a tribe of other similarly hued beings.  How wonderful!!!!

---adapted from the website www.hoagies.comby Nancy Vogler