Holbrook Elementary School

Gifted Education

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“Giftedness appears in many different forms in every cultural group at every level of society, yet it remains a potentiality until it has been discovered and developed. In coming to grips with more effective approaches to identify giftedness, the promise is that educators will better understand how to identify and nurture the potential of all learners.” (Passow and Frasier, 1996)

Definition of Gifted Learners

Gifted learners are children and youth with outstanding talent who perform or show the potential for performing at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of their age, experience, or environment. (U.S. Department of Education,1993)

Identification Procedures

The purpose of identification in the gifted program is to find students whose potential and/or performance is so extraordinary that they require differentiation in their instructional program .

Goals

• Locate and recognize students in grades K-12 with extremely strong learning profiles in the areas of:

1. Intellectual ability

2. Academic achievement (general or specific)

• Use multiple criteria for eligibility and specific procedures that acknowledge the variety of ways and environments in which students manifest

giftedness.

Gifted Education Service Options

Figure 1 – DoDEA Gifted Education Services at the Elementary School Level

*Regular classroom with differentiation

Regular classroom with cluster grouping and differentiation

Regular classroom with grade acceleration of content

*Resource sessions outside the classroom

Grade acceleration for specific content

Grade acceleration

Individualized services

Additional opportunities

* Service options primarily used at Holbrook

Problem of the Month

Name the only four words in the English language that end with "dous". (The answer is at the end of this page.)

Word of the Month

haptic - (hap'tick) - relating to the sense of touch

Quote

"To have tried and failed is better than to have never tried at all." Misquoted from a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson

What We Are Working On

 

 K - we have just begun to meet. We are working on reading skills and knowledge of word blends

1st & 2nd grades – We are developing PowerPoint presentations on animals. We are learning research skills on the Internet, how to use the PowerPoint program and how to present what we have learned (reading, using a loud voice and making eye contact.)

3rd & 4th grades – We are reviewing test taking skillls. We are working on higher order thinking skills - striving to think outside the box!

 

Web site of the Month

http://encarta.msn.com/mediacenter 7.0.0/architecture.html

This is great for children to see historic places of interest in 3D with a 360 degree angle

Answer to the problem above: stupendous, tremendous, horrendous and hazardous

DoDEA Gifted Education

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March 3, 2009

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