It is the mission of the Bennett's Mill Middle School Gifted Department to identify, place, and serve each student meeting Georgia gifted criteria. We seek to enrich, challenge, and stimulate thought, thus stretching the minds and abilities of each of our students to strive for excellence in reaching his/her intellectual potential.
The gifted program at Bennett’s Mill Middle School offers instruction in three academic areas, language arts, science, and social studies. Students have the opportunity to experience all three during their middle school years. All academic course materials are based on the Georgia Performance Standards and are enhanced to enrich, challenge and motivate gifted students.
Fayette County Gifted Continuation Policy
A student’s performance in
all gifted classes is reviewed at the end of each semester, earlier if
difficulties become evident.
Continuation in the Enrichment Program in Fayette County requires a
student to meet criteria-specific performance requirements in classes for the
gifted as evidenced by participation, completion of assignments, and the
maintenance of an average of 80 or better in each gifted class and/or a 70 or
better in each Advanced Placement class.
If a student fails to meet
the performance requirements in a gifted class, the student will be placed on
gifted probation the following semester for that department’s gifted
courses. Failure to meet the performance
requirements in the same academic area for two consecutive semesters will
result in the student being declared ineligible for gifted courses from that
department for the entirety of the following semester and placed in a
non-gifted core course in the same academic area. The student may regain gifted placement in
that department after meeting all continuation requirements. Re-entry may occur only at the beginning of
the next 18-week semester. The student
is allowed to remain in all other gifted classes as long as all continuation
requirements are met.
Faculty and Staff
6th Grade LeighAnn Gillette - Language Arts Julie Palin - Mathematics Tom Reed - Science Dawn Rodriquez - World Geography
7th Grade Angela Colvin - Mathematics Amy Furbee - World Geography Lori Tallman - Language Arts Martha Trisler - Science
8th Grade MarthBeth Grabhorn - Science Deb Mitchell - Mathematics Patricia Schade - Georgia History Kelly Stanford - Language Arts Mary Uszynski - Science