ESU Holds What If: A Gifted Event for Elementary School Students

On Saturday, November 15, East Stroudsburg University welcomed 67 gifted students from local and regional school districts to “What If: A Statewide Gifted Event.” ESU students taking Instructional Planning in Special Education (SPED 215) created a day of hands-on learning for elementary and middle school aged children (grades 2-8).

This semester, the pre-service students created lessons involving Greek sculpture; movement in music; Indigenous people of the Poconos and how they formed story telling/ literacy; math in music; making music through poetry; muscles and movement; and Germany.

ESU SPED 215 students who prepared the day’s lessons and event were Kayley Boyle, a sophomore from North Wales, Pa.; Georgeanne Cardona, a junior from Jeffersonville, N.Y.;  Stephanie Ciccone-Felmly, a junior from Bushkill, Pa.; Mac Curcio, a junior from Hackettstown, N.J.; Bayleigh Goff, a junior from Bangor, Pa.; Emily Gunuskey, a senior from Honesdale, Pa.; Mia LaBarca, a senior from Toms River, N.J.; Lindsay Langella, a junior from Wading River, N.Y.; Karissa Meier, a sophomore from Pocono Summit, Pa.; Cole Miller, a junior from Milford, Pa.; Sharaven Nixon, a freshman from Sharon Hill, Pa.;  Kyle Nothnagel, a junior from Tamaqua, Pa.; Arianna Rosario, a junior from Huntingdon Valley, Pa.;  Sophia Salvi, a junior from Effort, Pa.; and  Sydney Seyler, a junior from East Brunswick, N.J.

ESU’s Saturday Gifted Institute program is the only program of its kind in Pennsylvania. For more information, please contact Dr. Brooke Langan, dean of ESU’s College of Education by calling (570) 422-3377 or email blangan1@esu.edu.

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