WHAT IS THE GIFTED PROGRAM?Click here to find out more about the Gifted Program.As a designated regional centre for the education of the gifted students, Glenforest Secondary School offers a full range of enhanced curriculum from Grade 9 to the Grade 12 level. Glenforest provides enhanced students with carefully crafted programs, taught by teachers who understand the needs of the gifted student. Your child will also benefit from working alongside other gifted students who share their interests and abilities.
The gifted students at Glenforest have access to a broad range of leadership opportunities and innovative programs within a progressive, eco-friendly school. Students can also enjoy the fullness of student life at Glenforest, including a strong intramural sports program, the school newspaper and yearbook and an active social calendar.
In addition, Glenforest takes a proactive role in connecting its students to the wider community through volunteer service, guest speakers, relevant workshops, networking and career research and opportunities to include real-world experience in their skill sets.
REPUTATION FOR EXCELLENCE Glenforest’s excellent academic standing is widely recognized. Students regularly win competitions, scholarships and university placements at Canadian universities, as well as Harvard, MIT, and the Wharton School of Business. CAREER RESEARCH Glenforest provides enhanced students with carefully crafted programs, taught by teachers who understand the needs of the gifted students. Your child will also benefit from working Glenforest helps the enhanced student to research potential careers through one-on-one counselling, guest speakers and specialized workshops, including:
• Engineering Today
• Women in Business
• Building your Future – a Dale Carnegie Workshop
• How the Make an Effective Presentation with Michael Tudor COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS To enhance scholarship applications and university placement, the gifted student today must strengthen their ties to the community. Glenforest's Enhanced Program brings students together with community organizations to provide real-world experiences and leadership opportunities. Past community activities have involved:
• Encounters Canada
• Food Bank
• Sock it to You!
• Sexual Assault and Harassment Education with Professor June Larkin
• Hate Crime Workshop with Detective Paradis
• Blood Donor Clinic
• Welcome Team
• Tindall Senior Citizens
• Green Team
• Ontario Knowledge Network for Learning Symposium PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT The gifted student at Glenforest can take full advantage of self-assessment tools and personal development workshops such as the Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory, True Colors, "How the Brain Learns" and Leadership Skills Workshops. RECOGNITION FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Glenforest offers specialized coaching and support in preparation for academic competitions such as:
• Internet Science and technology Fair
• Canada First Robotics Competitions
• Toshiba Science Exploration Contest
• American Mathematics Competition
• Canadian Open Math Challenge
• Avogadro Chemistry
• University of Toronto National Biology
• John Fraser and Marion Drysdale English contests
• Waterloo French competition ADVANCED CHALLENGES IN TECHNOLOGY At the leading edge of technological education, Glenforest offers the gifted student hands-on challenges through a full range of programs:
• Internet Systems Group
• Web site design
• Talon Times newspaper
• TV studio
• 3D animation
• CAD program
• Yearbook
• Shad Valley INNOVATIVE PROGRAMMING After-School Credit Courses specially designed for the enhanced student.
Leadership Programs - to help students develop a variety of business, leadership, journalistic and communications skills.
Compututors - advanced challenges testing enhance students' information technology skill set
Music - earn credits while participation in one of several school bands WHAT PARENTS SAY ABOUT OUR SCHOOL "Glenforest's attention to these students earns it the "triple S" – Safe, Solid, and Superb. Thank you for all you do."
Kate Dickson.
"The enhanced program offers a stimulating learning environment where students are challenged, not only by teachers who understand them but also by working with students who have similar abilities."
Sandy Skeldon WHAT STUDENTS SAY ABOUT OUR SCHOOL • “lateral thinking and learning is encouraged”
• “supportive teachers teach at a higher level as opposed to a school that just
isolates superior students”
• “learn in greater depth, flexibly, with freedom and independence”
• “allows me to work to my potential and provides a great foundation for
university”
• “provides an advantage for post secondary programs, scholarships and
honours”
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