DRIVER’S EDUCATION

                                                                                                                                  Credit:  ½

Grade 10, 11, 12                                                                           Course Length:  Summer Only

This course provides classroom and laboratory experiences designed to enable motor vehicle operators to become safe and efficient highway users.   The ultimate goal of traffic safety education is to enable drivers to operate their vehicles safely, efficiently, and responsibly.  Each pupil should pass minimum performance levels as outlined in the Drivers and Traffic Safety Education Guide, Kentucky Department of Education.

  This course is offered for a fee of $175.00 with instruction provided by the Bluegrass Driving School.  A minimum enrollment of 15 students must be met for the course to be offered.

GIFTED AND TALENTED SEMINAR:  AMERICA THROUGH THE DECADES

Credit:  l

Grade:   10,11, 12                                                                                    Course Length:  Term  

Prerequisite:  Identification as gifted and talented in creativity, leadership, or general intellectual.  

Is there something you love and would love to learn more about, but haven’t had the chance in ordinary classes?  This is a class created for the in-depth pursuit of your creative interests.  The class will be conducted in true seminar style, more like a college class, with student-led review of major artistic and scientific inventions in twentieth-century America.  We will focus on cultural developments such as jazz and rock music and space and computer technologies, rather than the economic and political events emphasized in history courses.  Our goal is an enhanced understanding of the creative process and a cultural inventory, a sense of where we stand as a nation entering the 21^st century.  Designed to offer heightened intellectual and creative challenges, the course will involve various projects, rather than tests or traditional essays, and will culminate in a major research and creative project of the student’s own choice and design.

Preference will be given to 12^th and then 11^th grade students.

PEER TUTORING

Credit:  l

Grade:  10, 11, 12                                                                                     Course Length:  Term  

Prerequisite:  teacher approval.  

This course is designed to provide opportunities for “non-handicapped” peers to interact (socially and academically) with peers in the FMD classroom.  This will increase the levels of awareness and understanding of persons with disabilities.  This course includes a study of the causes and prevention of mental retardation and other handicapping conditions, special education, life management skills, values and issues related to integration and career opportunities for various human service careers.  The grade is determined by participation and assignments completed.  This is a great course for those wanting to go into a social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy or the teaching field.