WSD: Visual Arts
Gifted & Talented Art:
Westbrook School Department
Skill, imagination, & motivation
GT Art Faculty:
Westbrook High School- Debra Bickford
e: bickfordd@westbrookschools.org
Congin School- Melissa Perkins
e: perkindsm@westbrookschools.org
Westbrook Middle School, Canal School, Saccarappa School- Becky Knox
Purpose:
The purpose of this program is to offer Gifted and Talented art students a rigorous and individualized study of art. The program includes additional weekly classes, constant reflective feedback from peers, and an open environment to create, reflect, and develop as an artist. The Westbrook School Department Art Faculty work together to provides GT Art students with learning opportunities that will both challenge and enlighten their emerging gift.
iBoat Project: Logo Design
Visual Art & Technology
Mary Jane Jensen, Grade 5
Shanon A, Grade 5
Mary Jane Jensen, Grade 5
Westbrook Middle School
2015-16 Applications/Forms
Additional G&T Information:
“Gifted and talented children” are defined as children who excel, or have the potential to excel, beyond their age peers, in the regular school program, to the extent that they need and can benefit from programs for the gifted and talented. Gifted and talented children shall receive specialized instruction through these programs if they have exceptional creativity in: Artistic Ability as shown by demonstrated significant achievement or potential for significant accomplishment above their age peers in the literary, performing, and/or visual arts.