Dear Editor:
The Gifted and Talented Education Program at GUSD’s Rucker
School is one of the best kept secrets in Gilroy.
Dear Editor:
The Gifted and Talented Education Program at GUSD’s Rucker School is one of the best kept secrets in Gilroy.
Students are taught by teachers dedicated to instruction at levels appropriate to these students’ abilities, and the students are not left languishing in classrooms where the teachers are overwhelmed by the demands of “no child left behind.”
Differentiation of instruction is a wonderful goal, but it is hardly ever adequate to reach these students in the regular classrooms. In the Rucker GATE environment, these students are with their peers, a crucial element. There is also enrichment built into the program, one morning a week, with a rotation among the classes, to a wide variety of “academies,” rather than being bused after school to enrichment programs.
This is a program that works. GATE began in the Gilroy Unified School District as a one day, pull-out program in 1974. It developed into a self-contained program at Rucker School in 1984, and now serves about 90 students in the third through fifth grades.
Parents can request testing for GATE, and can obtain the paperwork from their school or the GUSD Office. Information about the self-contained GATE program at Rucker School can be obtained at the GUSD Office or at Rucker School.
Robyn Houts, Gilroy
Submitted Thursday, March 11 to ed****@****ic.com
