Resource-Cluster Model
The resource-cluster program is grounded in general education curriculum but is differentiated, modified and expanded to provide learning challenges. Identified gifted students in grades two through five are placed in heterogeneous classrooms, in groups of six to eight, and are taught by a cluster teacher trained in gifted education at their neighborhood school. A resource teacher, endorsed in gifted education, assists the cluster teacher in delivering instruction. Students are required to demonstrate mastery of the state-mandated Standards of Learning and their instruction is differentiated to meet their intellectual needs.