The Learning Enrichment Service: an Innovative Model for Involving Parents in the Education of Gifted Adolescents

Abstract

The Learning Enrichment Service (LES) is a multi-optioned, research-based model for better meeting the enrichment needs of gifted adolescents and their teachers in an economical and efficient way. With its theoretical basis in Renzulli's Enrichment Triad Model and the Revolving Door Identification Model, LES provides secondary educators and administrators with a comprehensive means of co-ordinating and facilitating enrichment programming in the regular classroom, the specialized classroom and beyond the school into the community. Because of its broad-based and flexible structure, LES offers opportunities for the parents of gifted adolescents to become involved not only in the education of their children but also in the education of other children in unique and powerful ways.

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