THINKING AND DOING (TAD) The TAD program is a differentiated instructional program for academically gifted students in third through eighth grade throughout the county. TAD is a project-based learning program for qualifying students. TAD units of instruction challenge students to apply innovative thinking to investigative tasks. Students are problem solving, researching, presenting and collaborating with peers and community organizations while tackling projects designed to address current challenges within the community and to promote awareness. Units of study include, but are not limited to, environmental literacy, arts integration, history, geography, architecture, literature, government, world culture, genealogy, neurology, anthropology, marine biology, chemistry, and economics. Essential thinking skills are developed through academic units of study. Theseunits of study provide opportunities for the students to develop proficiency in concepts and skills of the regular curriculum while also providing content, instructional strategies and settings for learning that may be unique for gifted students. Qualified students meet for a 2-hour class period, once every six-day cycle in groups of three to no more than ten students with an itinerant TAD teacher. There are four TAD teachers at the elementary level that travel throughout the county to the following schools to provide instruction: North Salisbury, Northwestern, Westside Intermediate, Pemberton, Prince Street, Glen Avenue, East Salisbury, Fruitland Intermediate, Willards/Pittsville, and Delmar Elementary. The home school for the elementary TAD teachers is North Salisbury. Salisbury Middle serves as the home school for one middle school TAD teacher and Bennett Middle serves as the other. There are two TAD teachers at the middle school level that travel to the following schools to provide TAD instruction: Bennett Middle, Salisbury Middle, Wicomico Middle, Mardela Middle/High School, and Pittsville. Their home schools are Salisbury Middle and Bennett Middle Schools. The chart below indicates an approximate number of students who are enrolled in the TAD program for the current school year (2023-2024). Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 110 84 65 52 37 36 51
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