TAG Classes for 2012-2013

I wanted to let all TAG families know what kind of additional program offerings we are going to offer this school year.  There are 2 different opportunities for our TAG students.

We will have late opening classes again.  We are hiring certified teachers who will conduct a specific 5-session class that would happen over 5 different late starts.  It will be more of an on-going class, instead of the one-session ones we did last year.   Our goal is that these classes are more project based, and more interactive for the students.  These classes will be paid by the TAG budget and are free to all TAG kids.

In addition, there will be two afterschool TAG classes (one for the younger kids, one for the older ones).  It will be offered through the afterschool PTA programs.  These classes will feature 10 week sessions.  There will be 2 classes in the fall, two classes in the winter and 2 classes in the spring.  The fall, winter and spring classes will be different in order to appeal to more kids.  The classes are only open to TAG kids, and they are fee based, so families will have to pay for their children to attend. 

For the fall afterschool session, Mrs. Streano is teaching a Broadcast Journalism mini-study for grades 4-5.  In this class, students will work in a news team to research, write and produce an actual news broadcast. 

Mrs. Mauldin will teach the Election Project, a mini-study centered around the 2012 election.  We will look at how elections work at a local and federal level.  We will discuss branches of government, creation of laws, and our role in how our country elects our leaders.

It is our hope these classes will appeal to the students and to the goals the parents talked about last spring when we met.