Primary Talent Development Early Learning Program

The Primary Talent Development Early Learning Program PreK - 2 is a science-based critical and creative thinking curriculum integrating gifted education and early childhood education theory and practice. PTD engages all students in open-ended, hands-on, problem solving experiences which promote the learning behaviors associated with lifelong success: perceptive, communicative, inquisitive, persistent, creative, resourceful, and leadership. By the completion of Grade 2, each student has a cumulative PTD Behavioral Scale documented by portfolio artifacts that can be used to make referrals for gifted and talented student identification.

In Focus

View the Primary Talent Development Video

"Nurturing & Challenging All Children"

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, prekindergarten – 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 which are transferrable to new learning situations.

Primary Talent Development
Early Learning Program Pre K-2
"Nurturing & Challenging All Children"
Video

Contact Information

Maryland State Department of Education

200 West Baltimore Street

Baltimore, MD 21201

Highlights

	PTD Brochure
	How to Implement the Program
	Sample Lesson, PreK
	Sample Lesson, Grade 2