Elementary Elementary G/T ProgramsG/T Programs

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Elementary G/T ProgramsElementary G/T Programs

Enhance understanding and commitment to implementing HISD and Texas G/T Standards

Increase participation of underrepresented populations

Build capacity of teachers and school leaders to incorporate research skills that lead to advanced level products

Water Bottle Foundation Water Bottle Foundation Project Grade 4Project Grade 4

If your district asked you to send in examples of advanced products, what would you send?

What makes an advanced level product?

G/T State GoalG/T State Goal

•What connections do you make between student products and the State Goal?

•Why would the state describe the goal with emphasis on the creation of a product?

Students who participate in services designed for gifted/talented students will demonstrate skills in self-directed learning, thinking, research, and communication as evidenced by the development of innovative products and performances that reflect individuality and creativity and are advanced in relation to students of similar age, experience, or environment.

Turn to your shoulder partner and discuss.

Step 1: G/T IdentificationStep 1: G/T Identification

The G/T identification of a student can be initiated in 4 ways:

1) parent2) teacher3) student4) district-generated rosters based on the universal testing done at Kindergarten and 5th grade

Step 1: G/T IdentificationStep 1: G/T Identification

Nomination

What are the barriers to the identification of those in our underrepresented groups?

How do we overcome the barriers? 

Step 2: Class AssignmentsStep 2: Class AssignmentsInstructional Delivery Models

Vanguard Standard 5Research indicates that gifted and talented students’ academic and social emotional needs are best met in classrooms with other students with similar abilities and with fluid, flexible groupings that change as needed based upon students’ interest and abilities. G/T instruction shall be delivered in one of the following instructional delivery models: G/T homogeneous classrooms G/T clusters in the general classroom Combination of G/T homogeneous and G/T cluster

models

Step 2: Class AssignmentsStep 2: Class Assignments

Look at the handout. What do you notice?

Step 3: Step 3: Support for G/T ClassroomsSupport for G/T Classrooms

So…we have G/T identified students…

And…they are assigned to classes with G/T trained teachers

But…there are still so many questions…How do we teach research skills to young children?Where do we go for support? Ideas?How do we know what advanced level products are?How do we guide students to create them?

Step 3: Step 3: Support for G/T ClassroomsSupport for G/T Classrooms

Human capital: Self-contained teacher using differentiation

effectively Enrichment teacher as co-teacher Enrichment teachers as mentors

Materials/resources: ◦ Texas Performance Standards Project (TPSP)◦ Renzulli◦ Independent Investigation Method (IIM)

◦ What else is working on your campus?

Renzulli Superstarter ProjectsRenzulli Superstarter Projects

TPSPTPSPGrade Level TasksGrade Level Tasks

Phase I: Learning ExperiencesWhole class activities

Phase II: Independent ResearchIndividual or small group studies

The Big Question: How do I teach my students HOW to conduct research?

EXPLORATORY

RESEARCH

Follow These Footsteps to SuccessFollow These Footsteps to Successin a Research Projectin a Research Project Topic

Goal Setting

Research

Organizing

Goal Evaluation

Product

Presentation

INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION METHOD (IIM)

TopicTopic

TopicTopic