Ate Balsamo (Enfrichment)

ENRICHMENT
Presented By : Josephine Balsamo

ENRICHMENT
Enrichment refers to providing additional,
challenging learning experiences that go
beyond the standard curriculum to deepen
understanding, stimulate intellectual curiosity,
and foster the development of advanced skills
and talents.
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Planning of enrichment activities for
gifted youth, emphasizing the
importance of having" higher-order
objectives"

OBJECTIVE OF ENRICHMENT
Achieving high proficiency in basic skills
Exposure to diverse fields of study
Fostering creative thinking
Developing ethical awareness

“Enrichment strategies essentially are delivery
methods for achieving process and content goals”
Enrichment opportunities provide gifted students.

With the opportunity to further explore their
interests, while also sharpening their processing and
critical thinking skills

Enrichment Strategies:
1. Independent Study and Independent
Projects
2. Learning Centers
3. Field Trips
4. Saturday and After-School Programs
5. Summer Programs
6. Mentors and Mentorships

7. Future Problem Solving
8. National History Day
9. Odyssey of the Mind and Destination
ImagiNation
10.MATHCOUNTS 11.Junior Great Books
12.Academic Competitions
13.Using Technology

1. Independent study and
Independent Project: • Independent study and
research projects take place within many of

the enrichment and grouping strategies
described in this chapter and within many of
the acceleration options and program
models
2. LEARNING CENTERS
• Commercial learning centers are tabletop
workstations usually designed for individual

work.
• Learning centers also can teach foreign
languages; geography, history, and other
social sciences; handicrafts; and music
appreciation.
3. FIELD TRIPS
• Field trips can be used as an exploratory
activity aimed at acquainting students with

cultural or scientific areas or with career
possibilities. Field trips also can be a source
of information for students’ independent
project.
4. SATURDAY PROGRAMS
• Saturday programs present a delightful

benefit: They permit gifted students to meet
and work with each other away from the
stresses and problems of daily school
requirements.
5. SUMMER PROGRAMS
• These may be capitalized upon by the

teacher, parent, or counselor seeking
enrichment opportunities for energetic,
capable children
6. MENTORS AND MENTORSHIPS
• Traditionally, mentorships involve

a community professional working
with a single high
7. FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING
• The popular Future Problem Solving (FPS)

program is an enrichment activity that can
take place in a pullout program, resource
center, special class, or Saturday program, or
with gifted students who mainstreamed or
clustered in the regular classroom.
8. NATIONAL HISTORY DAY
• Each year, over half a million students from
around the nation participate at the local, state,

and national levels in National History Day
competitions.
• The National History Day process helps students
develop critical thinking and problem-solving
skills, research and reading skills, oral and written
communication and presentation skills, and self-
esteem and confidence
9. ODYSSEY OF THE MIND AND
DESTINATION IMAGINATION
• Odyssey of the Mind (OM; formerly Olympics of the Mind) and

Destination Imagination are national and international programs,
and they are considered excellent vehicles for teaching creative
thinking and problem solving, along with self-confidence,
interpersonal skills, and more There are four age divisions within
OM. In Division I, team members must be younger than 12 or in the
fifth grade; in Division II, younger than 15 or in the eighth grade; in
Division III, 15 or older and attending high school; and in Division IV,
in college
10.MATHCOUNTS
• MATHCOUNTS is a national program that

promotes better math skills in all students,
while creating opportunities for those who
excel to compete at local, state, and national
levels.
11.JUNIOR GREAT BOOKS
• Junior Great Books (JGB), a program of the Great

Books Foundation, is another popular enrichment
program currently used in gifted programs across
all 50 states and in many foreign countries. Two
goals of JGB are implementing JGB programs in
grades K12 and training teachers to become JGB
leaders.
12.ACADEMIC COMPETITIONS
• The best sources of information on national

competitions, many of which are open to students
of all ages, are the books Competitions:
Maximizing Your Abilities (Karnes & Riley, 1996a)
and Competitions for Talented Kids (Karnes &
Riley, 2005).
13. TECHNOLOGY AND THE GIFTED
• Computer and Internet

technologies present endless
enrichment opportunities.
These strategies aim to provide a
diverse range of approaches to
enhance the education of gifted
students, catering to their unique
needs and interests.

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ENRICHMENT

Presented By : Josephine Balsamo

Leyte Normal University | 2024

Leyte Normal University | 2024

Enrichment opportunities provide gifted students.

Leyte Normal University | 2024

Leyte Normal University | 2024

Leyte Normal University | 2024

research projects take place within many of

workstations usually designed for individual

activity aimed at acquainting students with

• Saturday programs present a delightful

• These may be capitalized upon by the

• Traditionally, mentorships involve

• The popular Future Problem Solving (FPS)

around the nation participate at the local, state,

• Odyssey of the Mind (OM; formerly Olympics of the Mind) and

• MATHCOUNTS is a national program that

• Junior Great Books (JGB), a program of the Great

• The best sources of information on national

• Computer and Internet

Leyte Normal University | 2024

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