Hillside’s Gifted Academic Program Back to School NiGHt Mr. Schwing Fall 2017
Who is Mr. Schwing? ● GAP AND STEM Teacher ● 10th year teacher in Mount Laurel ● 2nd Grade 8 years ● 3rd 0.5 years at Parkway ● M.S. in Elementary Education ● B.S. in Computer Science ● 34 Years Old ● MMA Trainee ● Blue Belt in BJJ ● Husband/Father ● Sarah (Also a teacher!) ● Jacob (15 months today!) ● Butters (3 y.o. Black Pug Puppy)
What is gifted? New Jersey’s definition: “ Those students who possess or demonstrate high levels of ability, in one or more content areas, when compared to their chronological peers in the local district and who require modification of their educational program if they are to achieve in accordance with their capabilities.”
Mount Laurel’s Philosophy Gifted students come from all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds and possess unique abilities. Gifted students exhibit high performance, or the potential to achieve, in intellectual, creative, or artistic areas; possess strong leadership capacity; or excel in specific academic fields. They are a unique segment of the district’s student population, therefore, instructional techniques are needed from kindergarten through eighth grade to nurture growth and development. It is our responsibility to provide students with educational alternatives that teach, challenge, and expand their knowledge, while simultaneously stressing the development of independent and self-directed learners who continuously generate questions, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information and ideas.”
Mount Laurel’s G.A.P. Goals ● provide students with challenging learning experiences that align with and extend the Common Core Curriculum Standards and the New Jersey Common Core Curriculum Standards ● implement high-quality curriculum that is supported by research-based models appropriate for gifted students ● provide a variety of appropriate learning experiences that are flexible and innovative to meet the unique needs of all gifted learners in our district ● support self-directed, 21st century learners who research, communicate, create, collaborate and think critically to solve real world problems ● support affective education of each student in the Gifted Program
Mount Laurel’s G.A.P. Organization Kindergarten Consultation and resource basis ● Grades 1- 4: “pull out program” Resource for classroom teachers ● Pre G.A.P. (grades 1 and 2) ● meets once a week for 1 hour ○ G.A.P. (grades 3 and 4) ● meets twice a week for the equivalent of one school ○ day
Curriculum Focus on student choice and ownership in the learning ● environment Opportunities: ● for collaboration with peers that extend beyond the ○ classroom walls for learners to explore themselves as gifted people, ○ and discover ways in which to use those gifts as a service to those around them for the utilization of new technologies offered as a ○ way to motivate and extend learning for creative, innovative ways to problem solve using ○ advanced research skills
Pre - G.A.P. Units of Study Gifts All Around Us Ben Franklin: A Genius of Many Gifts Thinking About Our Thinking/Logic The Gifted Me
G.A.P. Units of Study Economics/Financial Literacy Independent Study/Genius Hour Thinking About Our Thinking/Logic The Gifted Me
GAP Projects and assignments ● Stock Market Game ● Literature ○ Bud, Not Buddy ○ Esperanza Rising ○ Fiction and Nonfiction Picture books
Genius Hour ● 21st Century learning ● Google’s Concept ● Each student will have an Interactive Notebook ● Students will have time to explore in depth topics and concepts they are interested in ● Students will chose how they share what they have learned with others
Affective Characteristics Positive Negative Inquisitive Overly self critical Has high expectations of self and Perfectionistic tendencies others Intrinsic motivation Sensitive to criticism or peer rejection Independent Strong willed; resists direction Acquires/attains information easily Bored easily
Affective How can we help them? Develop and practice ● Mindfulness (Interactive Notebook) Encourage use of Habits ● of Mind thinking skills in their daily lives Promote acceptance of ● themselves and each other
Logic ● Students need to be taught how to develop and apply higher level thinking skills to solve problems ● Promotes creativity and “out of the box” thinking ● Coding ● Rubik’s Cube ● Puzzles and Games
How to see what we’re up to... SeeSaw - Download the free family app or use the website for updates and announcements. (more info will be sent home soon) Google Classroom - receive a summary of your student’s work and announcements (more info will be sent home soon) Twitter - @MTL_HSGAPSTEM Class Website http://hs.mtlaurelschools.org/subsites/Jacob-Schwing/
Conferences We’ll be using a digital signup (probably signupgenius.com) for conference scheduling. More information will be sent home in the near future. Please contact me if none of the available times work for you.
Contact Information jschwing@mtlaurelschools.org Thank you for coming!
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