Steck's Mission and Vision:
Mission: Steck
The Steck community is dedicated to maintaining a positive learning environment in an atmosphere where students can reach their full potential. We actively pursue the highest levels of academic achievement and believe in the mutual responsibility of teachers, students, and parents to contribute to the learning process. Our community believes in the right to a safe, nurturing environment where all are treated fairly with dignity and respect.
Mission: Gifted & Talented at Steck
In guiding students to reach their full potential, the gifted and talented department at Steck emphasizes critical thinking across all subject areas. We seek to provide a continuum of services designed to broaden and extend the learning processes of gifted and talented children in collaboration with students, teachers, and parents. In doing so, we desire to help students develop into compassionate, thoughtful, persistent, and creative learners ... and have fun!
Program Goals:
Our desire is to differentiate the learning process by the following means:
Content
In all of this, we desire to work collaboratively with parents, teachers, school specialists, and students, and to ENJOY learning!
To learn more about the programming continuum at Steck, click here.
The Steck community is dedicated to maintaining a positive learning environment in an atmosphere where students can reach their full potential. We actively pursue the highest levels of academic achievement and believe in the mutual responsibility of teachers, students, and parents to contribute to the learning process. Our community believes in the right to a safe, nurturing environment where all are treated fairly with dignity and respect.
Mission: Gifted & Talented at Steck
In guiding students to reach their full potential, the gifted and talented department at Steck emphasizes critical thinking across all subject areas. We seek to provide a continuum of services designed to broaden and extend the learning processes of gifted and talented children in collaboration with students, teachers, and parents. In doing so, we desire to help students develop into compassionate, thoughtful, persistent, and creative learners ... and have fun!
Program Goals:
Our desire is to differentiate the learning process by the following means:
Content
- address broad-based issues, themes, or problems incorporating a variety of subject areas
- provide advanced texts or above-grade level skills as appropriate
- encourage logical reasoning, critical and divergent thinking, and creative problem-solving strategies
- participate in research and communicate findings
- consider affective development and cultivate collaboration
- emphasize persistence, excellence, and curiosity
- refine/challenge existing ideas or our own previous work
- integrate concepts and subjects
- use techniques, materials, forms, and knowledge in innovative ways
In all of this, we desire to work collaboratively with parents, teachers, school specialists, and students, and to ENJOY learning!
To learn more about the programming continuum at Steck, click here.