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Summer Residential Governor's Schools Information
Summer Residential Governor's Schools provide gifted high school juniors and seniors with intensive educational experiences in visual and performing arts; humanities; mathematics, science, and technology; life science and medicine; or through mentorships in marine science or engineering. Students apply during their sophomore or junior year for the upcoming summer.
Each Summer Residential Governor's School focuses on one special area of interest. Students live on a college or university campus for up to five weeks each summer. During this time, students are involved in classroom and laboratory work, field studies, research, individual and group projects and performances, and seminars with noted scholars, visiting artists, and other professionals. In the two mentorships, students are selected to work side-by-side with research scientists, physicians, and a variety of other professionals. A director and a student-life staff provide supervision of students 24 hours a day, throughout the program.
One of the most important aspects of the Summer Residential Governor's Schools is the opportunity participants have to live, study, and get to know other students with similar interests and abilities from across Virginia. Both co-curricular and extra-curricular activities are designed to encourage students' interests and abilities. Recreation and free time are provided outside of the academic environment that enable these students to enjoy, what for many is, their first summer living away from home. Applications were made available beginning in October. Each school division has a specific number of nominations it may send to the Virginia Department of Education. As a result, divisions will set their own deadlines for submission of applications.
The Danville deadline for Visual and Performing Arts is November 15, 2011. The Danville deadline for academic programs is February 10, 2012.
Nominations may be made by teachers, guidance counselors, peers, or by the students themselves. A division selection committee chooses the nominees from each school division and forwards the nominees to a state committee. Consideration is given to students' academic records, test scores, extra-curricular activities, honors, and awards, creativity, original essays, and teacher recommendations. Because of the limited number of residential placements available, not all students who are nominated by their schools can be accepted for participation.
Visual & Performing Arts Application
2012 Academic Program Application
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VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR THE GIFTED
The Virginia Association for the Gifted is open to any individual interested in the education of exceptional children. Information, resources, and a newsletter are available on their web site.
Characteristics of Academically Gifted and Talented Students
- Superior physique as demonstrated by above average height, weight, coordination, endurance, and general health.
- Long attention span
- Learns rapidly, easily, and with less repetition
- Learns to read sooner, continues to read at a consistently more advanced level.
- More mature in ability to express himself/herself using a variety of communication skills
- Attentiveness to environment
- Asks many questions, wants to know the causes and reasons for things
- Spends much time on things that are of interest to him/her
- Knows about many things of which most other children are unaware
- Adapts learning to various situations
- Reasons out problems, sees relationships and comprehends meanings
- Analyzes quickly mechanical problems, puzzles, and trick questions
- Shows a high degree of originality; uses good but unusual ideas
- Likes to study some subjects for the joy of learning
- Possesses one or more special talents
- Analyzes his own abilities, limitations, and problems
- Performs with poise, takes charge of situation
- Evaluates facts and arguments critically
- Has more emotional stability
- Can judge the abilities of others
- Has diverse, spontaneous, and frequently self-directed interests