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The Super Saturday School concept is not new, but rather enjoys many years of success. Many major universities include in their education college, special centers for the research of giftedness and implementation programs like Saturday schools for community gifted students. Examples of such centers are the Johns Hopkins University Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth, the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University, the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary, Duke University's Talent Identification Program, Stanford University's Education Program for Gifted Youth, and the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented of the University of Connecticut.

The Super Saturday School will serve as a community-supported/created teaching/learning setting, a collaborative link between community and the education college of PSUNY. Dr. Karen J. Agne, director of the SSS and founder of the AAGE, instructs EDU 529 Gifted Education, a course offered by SUNY each spring semester and EDU 536 Creative Problem Solving, offered in the fall. As part of the student requirement for the course, EDU 529, students may teach, facilitate or observe the activities of the students enrolled in the Super Saturday School who represent a population of the top 3% of aptitude ability levels. The Super Saturday School will also provide an opportunity for community in-service teachers to propose and teach creative new curriculum ideas, to observe, research and experience teaching gifted children.

The AAGE and SSS will maintain a constant call for creative, fast-paced, accelerated units for future Super Saturday School programs for gifted levels K - 12. Anyone may contribute potential program material, from detailed unit plans to briefed ideas. Selections will be made from a pool of units on the basis of creativity, uniqueness, variety, cognitive and skill level, needs and choices of students enrolled and appropriateness for gifted education. Certified teachers and graduate education majors, especially those who have completed or are presently enrolled in EDU 529, Gifted Education, are encouraged to participate. Parents are welcome to aide or observe as space permits and teaching/learning allows.

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Home Plattsburgh State University Website by Dr. Karen Agne & David Driver 101 Broad Street, Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Phone: (518) 564-5136 Send comments to: Dr. Karen Agne Last Updated: September 18, 2006