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The GATE Visual & Performing
Arts (VPA) Program is a Division of Special Education within the
Department of Education and is partially funded by Title VI This
program provides talented students
with a curriculum which is emphasized the development of skills,
concepts and creativity. Art
experiences are designed to go beyond the regular classroom
activities. The overall goals of the
programs are:
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To identify gifted and
talented students in the areas of dance, drama, vocal and
instrumental
music and visual arts.
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To provide individual and
class instruction, practices and performance opportunities
for
identified students.
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To encourage young people to
develop qualities of leadership and a sense of community
responsibility.
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To recognize and encourage
outstanding abilities in the arts.
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To provide in-service
training to classroom teachers so that they may assist in
the
identification and development of talented students.
Preparing students to "Soar Beyond All Barriers" is carried out
in all areas of instruction. Emphasis
is placed on the higher levels of thinking in Bloom's Taxonomy,
focusing particular attention on the
categories related to abstract concepts, as well as creative and
critical thinking.
Through varied and challenging motivation, the GATE Visual and
Performing Arts program aims to
stimulate exceptionally talented students in learn to see more,
sense more, recall more, and
become more vitally aware of their changing and expanding
environment.
Art is not anything a child draws, paints, sings or dances. Art
is more than copying or reporting. Art
involves learning a language of communication. Like poetry, art
is highly expressive, full of
discriminative choices, and has a structure and purposeful body
of knowledge and skill to be
mastered.
Through many planned art-life experiences, which are reinforced
by exposure to art books, films,
slides and visits to professional art programs, student gain
awareness and knowledge of the arts.
Art is an education. It enhances a student's imagination,
creativity, skills in basic learning and
perceiving, reading, analyzing , evaluating and building a
vocabulary of self expression.
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