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Curriculum Night
Mrs. Goodson
• Professional
• Personal
Mrs. Kelleher
• Professional
• Personal
Gifted Testing
• Testing for grades 3-5 will be at the district office in September and January. The testing will be on a Saturday and is from 9:00-12:00.
• Testing for K-2 will be in the fall and spring
Gifted and High Achieving Students
• The placement for high achieving students is fluid and not permanent. The best place-ment is a classroom that a student can succeed in and be happy. The best place-ment is not always the gifted classroom.
Language Arts• Novels- Reading must be done for Tuesdays and Fridays
for group discussions• Writing- • Vocabulary
– Wordsmith– Novels– Wordly Wise
• Jr. Great Books• Homework is listed on my website:
www.kyrene.org/mgoods
Math Curriculum/Adopted Resources/Homework
• Curriculum– Common core math standards for 4th, 5th and some 6th
• Adopted Resources– Investigations (4th/5th grade)– Connected Math (6th grade)
• Homework (listed on my website www.kyrene.org/ESP-skelleher – My philosophy
• 30 minutes• Skip ones you don’t know• practice
• Weekly pre-post assessments
Nonverbal
Auditory Sequential Visual Spatial
Thinks primarily in words Thinks primarily in pictures
Has auditory strengths Has visual strengths
Usually good organization Creative organization
Can show steps of work easily Arrives at correct solutions intuitively
Processes from easy to difficult Gets difficult concepts often but
struggles with easy concepts
Relates well to time Relates well to space
Learns by trial and error Learns concepts all at once.
Does this look familiar?
Nonverbal
• NV reasoning @ school
• Creating using graphs, tables, charts
• Activities involving mapping, measuring, scale drawings
• Statistics and data analysis• Science experiments• Number patterns and
sequencing• Designing inventions, simple
machines
• NV reasoning @ home
• Sudoku or Ken-Ken puzzles• Legos, k-nex, checkers, chess• Origami• Brain teasers• Art projects• Activities that involve drawing
conclusions based on a set of givens
• Cooking, woodworking
K-3 Cluster classes
• There is ongoing professional development for the cluster teacher.
• Besides myself there will be an additional gifted teacher who will be in contact with your child’s classroom teacher to provide additional support.
• This model has been shown to improve student• achievement across all academic levels. • Differentiated Learning Plans provide a framework
for instruction for your child.
DLP
• Consultative with classroom teacher• Student Differentiated Learning Plans
• Testing for K-2 will be in December.
Additional Resources
• Kyrene Gifted Webpage http://sw.kyrene.org/Page/1021
• Nonverbal Resource Page http://sw.kyrene.org//site/Default.aspx?PageID=1051
Contact Information
• Phone contact is 480-541-3534 • Email is your best bet to contact us.
• [email protected] Michele Goodson• [email protected] Stephanie Kelleher• Website for homework
www.kyrene.org/mgoodsESP and/or www.kyrene.org/ESP-skelleher
Thank You
Questions?