Marlboro Township School District G&T Programs

The following information has been taken from the district's curriculum webpages on the Marlboro Township Public Schools' website (viewable to the public).

Reading Enrichment Programs                                   

Kindergarten through Third Grade

Students are pulled out of their regular classes for additional content specific enrichment. Students can be eligible for reading enrichment or math enrichment or for both programs. Students in kindergarten and grade one participate for the second half of the school year, and students in grades two through three participate for a full year.

Eligibility:

• For our Kindergarten and First Grade students, eligibility is determined by demonstration of strong performance on district assessments and teacher recommendation.  At a minimum, a grade one student's reading level comprehension and fluency must be 2 years above grade level to enter this program. Please see the district placement criteria page for the current program requirements.

• Students who will be entering into grades two and three are identified through a two-step process. The students who score a Guided Reading Level as stated on the Gifted Reading Placement Criteria, along with the other criteria listed, will be invited to participate in a district assessment. This is scored by the gifted and talented teachers to determine eligibility.

 

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Primary Enrichment Program/PEP      

Second and Third Grade

The PEP program is an interdisciplinary enrichment program for our academically talented Second and Third grade students.  The PEP classes run for the full school year.  Students are pulled out of their regular classroom to participate in various units of study.

Eligibility:

• A Building Action Committee (BAC) reviews the eligibility of the students using the following measures: Guided Reading/Lexile levels, Math Performance, ELA Common Assessments, Writing Task Scores, a score of 133+ on the CogAT, individual teacher recommendations, and a detailed checklist of indicators of giftedness.
• PLACEMENT CRITERIA (subject to change annually)

 

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Realizing Excellence through Academic Challenge - "REACH"               

Fourth and Fifth Grade

The REACH program is an interdisciplinary enrichment program for our academically talented Fourth and Fifth Grade students. REACH classes span the full school year and students are pulled out of their regular classroom to participate in various units of study.

Eligibility:

• A Building Action Committee (BAC) reviews the eligibility of the students using the following measures: Achieve 3000 nonfiction reading lexile measures, Math Performance, ELA Common Assessments, Writing Task Scores, a score of 133 or higher on the CogAT, individual teacher recommendations, and a detailed checklist of indicators of giftedness.

 

PLACEMENT CRITERIA (subject to change annually)

 

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Special Opportunities through Academic Resources/SOAR                   

Kindergarten through Grade Five

The SOAR program provides enrichment on an as-need basis after consultation with the classroom teacher.

Eligibility:

• As per the board policy, File Code 6171.2, Exhibit 1:

• "Placement in SOAR is based on a student's demonstrated need in a specific academic discipline. After in-class enrichment strategies have been provided to the students and documented by the classroom teacher, the teacher of the gifted will initiate the SOAR program."

 

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What is the CogAT?

The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is used here in Marlboro as a screening measure to test students’ learned reasoning abilities in the areas of Verbal, Quantitative, and Nonverbal abilities. It is a norm-referenced, formal test administered in grades one, three, and five by the classroom teacher.

Parents will be notified of testing and of the results upon completion. Results can take several months to be tabulated and distributed.