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Schneider, Jean – Understanding Our Gifted, 2008
"Fast Track" is a pseudonym for an accelerated, advanced language arts program for verbally gifted and high potential students in grades 6-8. The critical thinking model used for "Fast Track" was gleaned from Coalition of Essential Schools founder Ted Sizer's Habits of Mind: significance, evidence, connections, perspective, and supposition, as…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Language Arts, Grade 6, Communication Skills