Enrichment

Enrichment activities can offer extension activities that complement class objectives. They are limited only by the teacher’s talent and creativity. Because diverse students tend to learn at different rate, it may be appropriate to send students who have mastered standards to objective-related enrichment periods while students needing additional review attend tutorials.

Enrichment activities should not come in the form of additional homework or another worksheet. Instead, they should consist of activities that will encourage higher-level thinking.

Benefits of enrichment:

• Encourages students to work hard during regular class so they can participate in enrichment periods
• Offers new ways to see how the classroom relates to the real world
• Stimulates new insights
• Provides intellectual and creative challenges
• Enhances knowledge, which allow students to learn a subject in greater depth
• Generates interest
• Develops advanced skills in critical thinking
• Challenges students to operate at higher intellectual levels
• Promotes personal growth