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GATE Pico Canyon Elementary 2019-20

WELCOME • Mrs. Wilson, Asst. Principal • Mrs. Hallden, Grade 6 • Mrs. Walsh, Grade 5 • Grade, 4

WHAT IS GATE? Gifted and Talented Education • Gifted students my show outstanding talent or perform at high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of the same age, experience, or environment. • Gifted students may show a high performance capability in intellectual, creative, and/or artistic areas, may possess and unusual leadership capacity, and may excel in specific academic fields. • Outstanding talents and abilities are present in children and youth from all cultural groups, across all economic strata, and in all areas of human endeavor. National Excellence: A Case for Developing America’s Talent, 1983

THE HIGH ACHIEVER

THE CREATIVE THINKER

THE GIFTED STUDENT

THE SAME SIZE FITS ALL? • No two students are alike • No two children learn in identical ways • An enriched environment for one student is not necessarily an enriched environment for another • Children should be taught to think for themselves

DIFFERENTIATION Differentiation is not about giving more work. It is about adjusting the work to meet the needs of the learner.

THE DIFFERENTIATED CLASSROOM Traditional Classrooms Pico Classrooms • Student differences are • Student differences are masked or seen as studied as a basis for problematic planning Assessment is only given Assessment is ongoing • • at the end of learning to and diagnostic to see “who got it” understand how to adjust instruction • A relatively narrow sense of intelligence Focus on multiple forms • prevails of intelligence • A single definition of • Excellence is also excellence exists identified in growth from the starting point

Grade Level ELA Math Grade 3 83% 64% 82% 62% Grade 4 83% 68% 87% 60% Grade 5 85% 59% 75% 54% Preparing Pico Students

WHAT ARE EMPLOYERS LOOKING FOR? By 2020, 65% of all jobs will require a postsecondary degree.  Creative Problem Solvers  Communicators  Critical Thinkers  Collaborators Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce

QUESTIONING

ICONS OF DEPTH AND COMPLEXITY  Recognizes individual diversity among learners  Teaches toward highest level of knowing  Builds expertise  Strengthens critical thinking skills  Makes something abstract more concrete  Allows students to “jump” into the content and make sense of it  Builds in inquiry and academic language

PICO, GRADE 4  Benchmark leveled readers with text dependent questions  Readers Theater  Readworks Mrs. Keller, Mrs. Motter,  Math Stars Mrs. Coffey, Mrs. Yoo  Dreambox  Stemscopes with leveled passages  Technology projects  Vocabulary enrichment  Extension of complex sentence structures  Depth and Complexity Icons

PICO, GRADE 5  Stemscopes- challenge Science and Math  Dreambox-Math Ms. Cop, Mrs. Lamoureux/Yuhan,  Benchmark universe- Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Walsh challenge readers with constructed response and writing  Depth and Complexity Icons

PICO, GRADE 6  Depth and Complexity Icons  Thinking Maps  Algebra Enrichment morning classes Mr. Eifert, Mrs. Eifert/Susino, Ms.  Dreambox-Assigned Focus with specific goals for each student Hall, Ms. Hallden, Mrs. Hartzog  CPM-Core Connections Enrichment tasks  Benchmark Extension tasks  Reader's Theater/Writer's Workshop  PowerPoint/Excel/Coding projects

2019-20 GATE ENRICHMENT 2018-19 GATE Arts Integration

GATE LEGO ROBOTICS Who: GATE identified 4 th , 5 th , and 6 th grade students at Pico What: Lego Robotics When: Fridays sessions, 12:30-2:00 pm Where: Pico Canyon Library How: Please complete your permission slips to enroll your student!

GDAC GATE District Advisory Council Eve vent Date te Time Location tion GDAC- Art Night 10/3/19 6:00 TBD GDAC- Science ce Night 3/5/20 6:00 TBD GDAC-Co Cook okin ing g Night 4/30/20 6:00 TBD These events will bring together students from all across Newhall School District!

RESOURCES FOR PARENTS • National Association for the Gifted • http://www.nagc.org/ • California Association of the Gifted • http://www.cagifted.org/ • Mensa for Kids • http://www.mensaforkids.org/