What is Enrichment?

When you're gifted, you have a lot of curiosity about the world and how things work. In school, we don't have time to learn about all the details of things and you may want to do that. If there is an enrichment plan for you, it let's you study things that wouldn't be studied in school or it let's you study them in more detail.

For example, in school we might learn about the solar system. You might want to learn all the details about the atmosphere on each planet and any moons that might exist. That would be called learning more in depth.

In school, we might learn about the presidents of the 20th century, but you might want to learn about all the presidents and all the first ladies and all their children. That would be learning in greater breadth.

In school, we might learn a simplified version of a Shakespearian play, but you might want to read the adult version of the play and then discuss the ideas Shakespeare was trying to communicate. That would be learning with greater complexity.

So if your parents put you into a special class in which you studied only Shakespeare for two weeks, that would be called enrichment. If you skipped some of your schoolwork and instead did a special project about presidents, first ladies, and their children, that would be called enrichment.