Meeting the Needs of High-Ability Learners
C
enter for Talent Development (CTD) exists to help young people with exceptional academic potential and demonstrated talent reach their full
potential. CTD’s unique Pathways approach to talent development gives students opportunities to identify their academic strengths and interests, explore potential career trajectories over time, develop critical knowledge and skills, and monitor their progress.
CTD has been
accredited by the NCA CASI since 1994
ASSESSMENT
Understanding your child’s academic potential and current level of achievement is an important first step in the talent development process. Assessments that identify your child’s strengths also help determine what is needed in terms of enrichment, acceleration, or supplemental programming. However, by elementary school, the grade-level and computer-adaptive tests used in schools provide limited information about growth and readiness to learn for high-ability learners. CTD solves this problem by offering assessments designed for older students that measure college and career readiness, but, when given to younger students, also measure academic ability and potential.
Once your child is assessed using a test better suited to their level of ability, CTD provides recommended pathways for talent development, normative data that provides a benchmark to compare their performance to other high-ability learners their age, resources for instruction and programming, and access to a supportive, online community led by an expert facilitator.
Visit
ctd.northwestern.edu/assessment to learn more about the tests CTD uses and to register.
ADVANCED ENRICHMENT
Advanced Enrichment courses give students the opportunity to focus on specific areas of study. Students delve deep into topics and fields not typically a part of the core curriculum at school. These courses place emphasis on higher-order thinking, facilitate creative thinking, and provide early exposure to advanced concepts in developmentally appropriate ways. Classes are student-centered, exploratory, and interactive. These courses complement school-based curriculum by extending student learning to real-world problems, providing students with insight into cutting-edge, emerging careers.
6 ACCELERATION
Acceleration courses give middle and high school students opportunities to accelerate academically by accessing curriculum more commonly used with older students. Students in these courses can advance at a pace more in sync with how quickly they learn, allowing them to learn more, feel more engaged in class, maintain motivation, and develop healthy learning habits. CTD offers a wide variety of Acceleration courses through our Online Core Essentials courses (Grades 4-8), Online Honors and Honors Elective courses (Grades 9-12 and middle school students on an accelerated basis), and Online AP®
courses (Grades 9-12).
The most important thing I will take with me is the idea that anyone can be a leader by leading with their mind
’’
and heart. CTD STUDENT
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