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The Primary Talent Development Early Learning Program PreK – 2 is a science-based, critical- and creative-thinking curriculum that integrates gifted education and early childhood education theory and practice. The program engages all students in open-ended, hands-on, problem-solving experiences that promote the learning behaviors associated with lifelong success. Learn how to use the Primary Talent Development program (PDF).

Nurturing and Challenging All Children.

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Find out when professional development opportunities are available for the Early Talent Development program.

Goals of the Primary Talent Development Early Learning Program

  • Provide opportunities for all children to develop and demonstrate advanced learning behaviors, including children from groups underrepresented in advanced programs.
  • Build a profile of student strengths over time, from prekindergarten through second grade, which can be used to document the need for differentiated instruction and gifted and talented education.
  • Provide models of the essential strategies of analyzing attributes, questioning, and creative problem solving, all of which students can use as they continue to learn.

Primary Talent Development Modules

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Prekindergarten: It Fits!

Maryland State Department of Education
The purpose of the Primary Talent Development module It Fits! is to encourage students to use perceptive behaviors to think ...
Three Caucasian children looking at a butterfly.

Prekindergarten: Making Sense of Our World

Maryland State Department of Education
The purpose of the Primary Talent Development module Making Sense of Our World is to encourage students to use communicative behaviors ...
Two girls playing with blocks.

Kindergarten: All About Attributes

Maryland State Department of Education
The purpose of the module All About Attributes is to encourage students to use communicative and perceptive behaviors to think like ...
Smiling girl laying in the grass.

Kindergarten: A Sense of Wonder

Maryland State Department of Education
The purpose of the module A Sense of Wonder is to encourage students to use inquisitive and persistent behaviors as they ...
Students working at a table.

First Grade: Design Dilemma

Maryland State Department of Education
The purpose of the Design Dilemma Primary Talent Development module is to encourage students to use resourceful and creative behaviors ...
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First Grade: Thinking Big

Maryland State Department of Education
The purpose of the Thinking Big Primary Talent Development module is to immerse students in a series of research-based cognitive ...
Children building rockets.

Second Grade: Preservation Problem Solvers

Maryland State Department of Education
The purpose of the Preservation Problem Solvers Primary Talent Development module is to encourage students to use leadership and resourceful ...
Teacher and kids gardening.

Second Grade: Tremendous Trees

Maryland State Department of Education
Tremendous Trees or Tree-mendous Trees encourages students to use inquisitive and creative behaviors, to think like a scientist ...

Funding for The Primary Talent Development Early Learning Program: Nurturing and Challenging All Children was provided by the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Education Program, U. S. Department of Education.

Disclaimer:  Primary Talent Development is a Maryland State Department of Education program but is not required to be implemented by local school systems. Please check with your local school system to determine how it is being used in your area.

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