Highly Capable Program

 The Rochester Highly Capable Program is a continuum of services for identified students to provide advanced curricula as well as support their social and emotional needs. These services range from teacher consultation within the regular classroom to pull out and or extended day services. 

Highly capable students are students who perform or show potential for performing at significantly advanced academic levels when compared with others of their age, experiences, or environments. Outstanding abilities are seen within student’s general intellectual aptitudes, specific academic abilities, and/or creative productivities within a specific domain. These students are present not only in the general populace; but are present within all protected classes.

Students who are highly capable may possess, but not limited to, these learning characteristics:

1. Capacity to learn with unusual depth of understanding, to retain what has been learned, and to transfer learning to new situations:
2. Capacity and willingness to deal with increasing levels of abstraction and complexity
3. Creative ability to make unusual connections among ideas and concepts;
4. Ability to learn quickly in their area(s) of intellectual strength; and
5. Capacity for intense concentration and/or focus.

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