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Teller Elementary
1150 Garfield Street
Denver, CO 80206
Office Phone:
(303) 333-4285 Fax:
(720) 424-3585
School Hours:
8:55AM-3:45PM
Morning playground supervision begins at 8:45AM.
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Announcing Highly Gifted and Talented Magnet
At the end of last school year, Teller Elementary, your Congress Park Neighborhood school, was approached by Denver Public Schools and asked to consider becoming a “HGT magnet site”. HGT stands for Highly Gifted and Talented. Teller’s staff and parents decided to accept DPS’s proposal. Teller is now the eighth magnet site for HGT in all of Denver Public Schools. It is still Congress Park’s neighborhood elementary school with the added benefit of this specialized program.
The Highly Gifted and Talented Program was developed in 1985 for students in grades one through eight who have demonstrated extraordinary academic achievement or abilities and intellectual potential found in the top one percent of the national student population. It is a full-day program in magnet sites that is designed for students who need the support and challenge provided by specifically trained teachers and other students with similar interests and abilities.
Parents and teachers may nominate children for this program and students are selected based on testing, achievement, teacher recommendations, identifiable characteristics and extraordinary abilities and accomplishments. (For more information about HGT, contact the Denver Public Schools GT Department at 720-423-8272.)
The principal and teachers at Teller have undergone extensive training in highly gifted education. They also will undergo continued professional development on differentiated learning for all ability groups. The school’s goal is to create intentional and effective learning environments for all students. Every child at Teller will benefit from this highly differentiated curriculum, instruction and assessment.
In order to incorporate highly gifted students into an already academically successful and diverse school, the school and community chose to implement an “integrated” model. Highly gifted children are cluster-grouped with six to eight other highly gifted students and are then integrated in mixed ability classrooms. Only two out of eight of the HGT magnets in DPS use this model. Teller chose the integrated model because every child benefits both academically and socially by interacting with many different children with many different special gifts. This model is real life. If you were to walk into a classroom at Teller, you should not be able to identify the “highly gifted” children. It should be transparent just like real life. The differences should be in what the child is doing and not what the child is labeled.
Teller is excited about being honored with this designation and thrilled for the opportunity to individualize instruction for every student. The Teller community also benefits from this opportunity. Our neighborhood elementary has become a highly sought after school. 50% of the Teller student population choices in from other neighborhoods. It is now a high ranking CSAP school with over 350 students attending this academic school year. This year, there were waiting lists to get in for almost every single grade.
Go to our Open Houses page for information on our up-coming events for prospective parents.
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