Texas Performance Standards Project

Klein ISD Office of Advanced Academics

www.texaspsp.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p7-r7eUx_4

Starting with the end in mind

Klein ISD Gifted Showcase

Young Minds Creating Knowledge

The TPSP is a classroom learning experience in which you will have the opportunity to explore, through research, one of your areas of interest in depth.

If you are interested in science, you will conduct studies much as a laboratory scientist would do. If you would like to be a published poet, you might like to focus on taking a poem from conception to publication.

What is it?

Benefits

Support

1. How can you use this task to make

a difference in your community?

2. How can you apply the task to a real-world situation?

3. How will this task have a personal impact on you?

To Think About . . .

Personality Traits Needed for

Successful Completion

Where to Start?

1. Take home the letter to parents2. Show parents the presentation3. Review the synopsis of available tasks: Grades K-5; Grades 6-8; Exit Level4. Complete an interest inventory called “List What You Love”5. Discuss ideas with your parents6. Return the signed Student Profile and Participation Agreement to the homeroom teacher

Keys to Success

Create a calendar and stick to it.

Stay organized (GT WIKI coming soon!)