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Advanced Course Offerings: K-4

The Buffalo Public School District is committed to increasing equity in educational experiences, including equity in access to advanced courses. 

The benefits of participation in advanced coursework may include:

  • improving a student’s self-confidence and image of self.

  • incorporating critical thinking, creative thinking, and metacognition as interdependent processes.

  • demonstrating a student’s preparedness for upper-level coursework.

The following sections outline the curricular offerings available to students of the Buffalo Public Schools during the 2024-25 school year. Not all offerings are available at all schools. Please consult the course descriptions of each individual course for specifics regarding availability, prerequisites, and assessments requirements.

Advanced Course Descriptions:

GIFTED AND TALENTED (GT)

Course Code:

Grade K

GTEKG

Grade 3

GTE3GG

Grade 1

GTE1GG

Grade 4

GTE4GG

Grade 2

GTE2GG

 

 

Offered:
Arthur O.Eve School of Distinction #61,
Frederick Law Olmsted #64

Description:
Students identified as gifted are taught using instructional methods and materials purposefully designed to promote the development of thinking skills while fostering the use of authentic, investigative methods within the GT classroom setting.  The goal of GT is to nurture students' potential and demonstrate strengths in the areas of giftedness while exhibiting academic rigor beyond the classroom curriculum.

INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE (IB) PROGRAMME

Offered: Stanley Makowski E.C.C. #99 

Description:
The IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) offers an inquiry-based, transdisciplinary curriculum framework that builds conceptual understanding. It is a student-centered approach to education for children. It reflects the best of educational research, thought leadership and experience derived from IB World Schools.