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Welcome to Los Paseos’GATE Parent Night
December 6, 2006
Please take a Parent Handbook
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Agenda•What is a gifted child?
•What makes people successful?
•How did my child get identified?
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What is a gifted child?• Unusually large vocabularies for their
age
• Ability to read earlier than most children, often before entering school
• Greater comprehension of the subtleties of language
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• Longer attention span, persistence and intense concentration
• Ability to learn basic skills more quickly and with less practice.
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• Wide range of interests• Highly developed curiosity and
a limitless supply of questions.• Interest in experimenting and
doing things differently• Tendency to put ideas or things
together in ways that are unusual and not obvious.
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What makes successful people?
• Alert
• Committed to a task
• Flexible
• Courageous
• Decision Makers
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• Enthusiastic
• Decision Makers
• Energetic
• Risk Takers
• Self Confident
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How did my child get identified for GATE?
• Screening• Testing • Case Study• Evaluations• Panel review• District Office approval
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Case Study
• Report cards• Anecdotal records• Teacher (s) evaluation• STAR test results• Running Records• Student information sheet
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What is the legislation governing Gifted and Talented Education?
• The Education Consolidation and Improvement Act passed by Congress in 1981 - Gifted and Talented students are ones who have high performance capability in intellectual, creative, artistic, leadership or specific academic.
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What California legislation are we under currently?
•2000 new legislation was passed with standards set for GATE programs.
•Presently, working under a three year plan for Morgan Hill Unified.
•Parent Involvement is a key component
•Differentiated strategies must reside in the regular classroom
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How do schools meet the legislation?
• Recipe for Differentiation• Compact the Curriculum• Acceleration, complexity,• Novelty, depth• Mix well• Serves for a lifetime.
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Compacting the Curriculum
• Eliminating skills or concepts already mastered by the student.
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Depth
• Challenging learners by enabling them to venture further, deeper, and in a more elaborative manner.
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Complexity
• Broadening the learner’s understanding of the area of study by making connections, relationships, and associations.
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Novelty
• Gaining a personal understanding of the area under study or constructing meaning of knowledge in an individualized manner.
• Enrichment
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Acceleration
• Altering the pace or speed of learning and providing more sophisticated resources for learning in order to challenge learners.
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Individualized Program Design
• Given by your homeroom teacher at conference or after identification takes place. http://www.mhu.k12.ca.us/
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End of Year Report Card
• This shows the opportunities your child participated in that meet the definition of differentiation.
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How can parents help their gifted child?
• Always be aware that you cannot protect your children from all painful experiences.
• Be consistent, fair and honest in all interactions.
• Take advantage of your child’s questions to guide further learning.
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• Answer their questions with patience and good humor.
• Provide opportunities for the development of physical and social skills.
• Avoid comparing your child with another.
• Provide opportunities for the development of physical and social skills.
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• Provide a place to display their work.
• Read to and with your child• Act as a role model• Help your children make decisions• Provide quality time for your
children• Develop good communication with
your children.
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• Teach values to your children
• Never do your children’s homework
• Help your child learn to prioritize everything
• Don’t criticize or ridicule your children
• Validate your children by loving them because they are your children and not because of the grades they receive.
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• Help in the selection of T. V. programs
• Provide a place where your child can work on his/her studies and hobbies.
• Provide increased independence as the ability to handle responsibility increases.
• Avoid pushing your child into activities
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• Set educational goals and visit college campuses
• Provide opportunities to learn about varied occupations.
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GATE Parent Support Group
• A collaborative group of parents of GATE students who are willing to help institute an after school enrichment program for identified and invited students
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How Can You Help?• Teach a class for 10-15 students one to four
afternoons (Tues., Thurs., or Fri.)• Monitor a class – Be an extra adult in the classroom
to pass out materials, watch behavior, run errands, stay with students until they are all picked up.
• Snack person- Serve and watch over snack time (3:00-3:15) before the sessions begin.
• Supplier of snacks• Class scheduler – Help schedule students into classes.• Class finder – Help us find enrichment opportunities.
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Field Trip Opportunities
• Help us arrange one fall and one spring enrichment trip.
• Fall – a performance or science oriented field trip such as Tech Museum with lab
• Spring – a visit to Cal or Stanford (5th and 6th grade only alternating each year.)