Donna BertschResource Teacher for the

GiftedAshlawn Elementary School

October 19, 2016

Before we start

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Collaboration with RTG

Curriculum for Gifted Learners

Cluster Teacher

Part 1:Professional Learning

Communities

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Part 1:Professional Learning

Communities

Arlington Tiered System of Support (ATSS)

ATSS is a system within collaborative learning teams (CLT) for meeting the needs of all students

Uses data to identify students who are in need of remediation or extensions

Arlington Tiered System of Support (ATSS)

ATSS is a system within collaborative learning teams (CLT) for meeting the needs of all students

Uses data to identify students who are in need of remediation or extensions

ATSS at Ashlawn

■ Math Extensions- My instructional role in...■ 2nd Grade - Eagle Block Problem Solving■ 3rd Grade - Flex Grouped, Co-taught■ 4th Grade - Flex Grouped, Rotations■ 5th Grade - Rotations, 6th Grade

Extensions■ Working on using data to compact math

more frequently

2e Wrap Around Support

My roles within a PLC

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• APS Local Plan for the Gifted 2012-2017

Differentiation in the ClassroomDifferentiated Instruction provides multiple approaches to content,process and product.

Teachers can differentiate…

■ Content: what students learnExamples: supplementary curriculum, extensions

■ Process: how students go about making sense of ideas and information

Examples: activity, opportunities to apply information or ideas

■ Product: how students demonstrate what they have learned Examples: portfolio, exhibition, project, etc.

Tomlinson, Carol. Fulfilling the Promise of the Differentiated Classroom. ASCD, 2003.

Differentiation for Gifted StudentsDifferentiation

StrategyWhat it looks like in the classroom

General Examples

Specific Examples

Process Providing students with different ways to interact with content

-activity-use of curriculum designed for high ability learners

-integrating lessons and activities from Project M3:Factors, Multiples and Leftovers as a way for high ability learners to learn GCF and LCM

Product Providing options for demonstrating their learning

-choice board-tic-tac-toe menu

To show an understanding of the different regions of Virginia students can create a project of their choice (ie: artwork, piece of writing, performance, etc.)

Content Content typically is differentiated when a student has already mastered grade level standards for a particular unit or topic.

-standard extension-enrichment project

-extending the grade 5 order of operations standard to include parentheses and exponents

Part 2:Gifted Services in K-5 classrooms

Collaborative Teaching

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Classroom Support (K-1)

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Co-teaching in Kindergarten

Critical and Creative Teaching Strategy: Concept of Patterns

Big Ideas and Bloom’s Taxonomy

Critical and Creative Teaching Strategy: Concept of Patterns

Modeling for teachers

Curriculum for Advanced Learners: Jacob’s Ladder & Junior Great Books

Planning with TeachersCollaborative Book Studies: Mindset in the Classroom

Classroom Support(Grades 2-5)

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Planning and Co-Teaching

Advanced Content: Project M3

Supporting the Goals of Teachers

Planning for Vocabulary Development Aligned with LA Standards

Parallel Teaching

William & Mary Teaching Model: Vocabulary Web

Leading Whole Group Lessons

Critical and Creative Thinking for All: Applying GEMAS to Riddles and Multistep Mathematics

Problems

Leading Small Group Lessons

Advanced Content: Hands On Equations

Connecting to Content

Advanced Content: Primary Source Analysis: President McKinley

Modeling of CCT Strategies

Critical and Creative Thinking: Fluency, Flexibility, Originality and Elaboration (FFOE)

Connecting to ContentCritical and Creative Thinking: Visualization and Comparisons:

Works of Shel Silverstein and Langston Hughes

Collaborative Teaching

Advanced Content and Process: Socratic Seminar

Communication

■ Differentiation Record Form- quarterly report to parents for identified students in grades K-5

■ Parent information nights (Fall and Spring)

■ Conferences

■ Ongoing collaboration between rtg-classroom-home

Getting Connected: APS Gifted Services

APS Gifted Services Website www.apsva.us/giftedservices

Getting Connected: GSAC ACI Parent Advisory Group

APS Gifted Services Website, GSAC folder https://www.apsva.us/gifted-services/gifted-services-advisory-committee/meeting minutes, presentations and past reports

For more information and/or to join, email one of the two co-chairs: Meredith Purple: meredithmcclure@hotmail.comBeth Dowd: bdowdcgo@aol.com

Contact Information

ADD YOUR SCHOOL LOGO HERE

Parent Resources

■ Virginia Association for the Gifted (VAG)

http://www.vagifted.org

■ National Association for the Gifted (NAGC)

http://nagc.org

■ Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG)

http://sengifted.org

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