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

Place 6 addition signes between these numbers and get a sum of 99:

987654321

Word of the Month

Faineant (fay-nay-awn) idle or lazy

Quote

“Your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." Bill Cosby

What We Are Working On

 

 K - word sounds

1 st grade – Super Star Math

2 nd grade – Compacted Math Curriculum

3 rd grade – Compacted Math Curriculum, Literacy Analysis of the Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

4 th grade – Super Star Math and the Literary Analysis of The Tale of Despereaux

Culture Day was a big success.  The fourth graders presented information about a country of their choice and 3rd graders presented a State of their choice.  Their displays included a poster board depicting history, geography, foods, and traditional clothing.  Students dressed in an outfit representative of their country / state.  They brought a sampling of food to share with their guests.

Dinner Table Topics

*Note: According to a 2005 survey conducted by Columbia University , kids who eat dinner with their families at least five times a week are more likely to get better grades in school and much less likely to have substance-abuse problems.

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

 

DoDEA Gifted Education

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January 2, 2008

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