GT Middle School Academy

The Gifted & Talented Academy at Quail Valley Middle School

The Fort Bend ISD Gifted and Talented Academy provides challenging learning opportunities and instructional strategies to differentiate for the academically gifted. Instruction is designed to enhance self-awareness, self-efficacy, problem solving, and the development of critical and creative thinking skills to empower students to make meaningful connections through problem-based learning, interdisciplinary study, and self-directed investigation. The GTA leverages a conceptual and thematic framework to foster students' ability to expand learning across separate content areas, encouraging real world connections and realizations via the curriculum. It also offers a uniquely supportive environment for GT-identified students in the form of like-minded and motivated peers and teachers with special expertise in the teaching of gifted and talented children.

Concept-Based Learning at the GTA

Concept-Based Teaching and Learning

Through Concept-Based Instruction, rigor is embedded in understanding the universal concepts, as interdisciplinary connections are a logical result.  Because many gifted children are global thinkers, using a universal concept is a more natural way for them to learn.

Below are the concept schematics representing the conceptual framework of each grade level in the GTA.