QUEST is Leander ISD's Gifted and Talented program. QUEST is an acronym which stands for Quality Utilization and Enrichment of Students' Talents.
The LISD QUEST program is set up as an enrichment to classroom learning. In the QUEST classroom, students learn and use tools that help them research ideas and topics. They will explore the Creative Thinking skills of Fluency, Flexibility, Orginality, and Elaboration in their projects. They will also learn how to use the Critical Thinking skills from Bloom's Taxonomy in their daily life.
QUEST is a challenging, interdisciplinary, project-based program that requires high intellectual ability (95%ile or above) for successful participation. The QUEST program does not accelerate a particular content area but does expand, extend, and enrich the content areas through interdisciplinary projects. While QUEST students' inventions and products may not look conventional to outsiders, they reflect in-depth, complex thinking and creative problem solving, and there is no limit to what those brains can do! |
The fall screening session for QUEST 2008-2009 is now in process. All new students new to LISD are screened for QUEST at the beginning of the year. Every Kindergarten student is screened during the second semester.
Because screening and identification is on-going, parents, district personnel, peers, students or others may nominate students in grades K-12 at anytime. Those nominating a student should complete a referral form. These measures will be further evaluated by the QUEST Screening and Placement Commitee. The forms are available from the QUEST teacher or the LISD website:
classroom.leanderisd.org/webs/quest1/elementary_quest.htm
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