Westwood - Bales Gifted and Talented

ProgramFriendswood ISD

Westwood - Bales Gifted and Talented

ProgramFriendswood ISD

Stacy Mueller GT Specialist

Stacy Mueller GT Specialist

The FISD Gifted and Talented Program offers special services to students who perform at or show the potential for performing at a remarkably high level of accomplishment when compared to others of the same age, experience, or environment.

State Goal For Services For Gifted Students:

• “Students who participate in services designed for gifted students will demonstrate skills in self-directed learning, thinking, research, and communication as evidenced by the development of innovative products and performances that reflect individuality and creativity and are advanced in relation to students of similar age, experience, or environment. High school graduates who have participated in services for gifted students will have produced products and performances of professional quality as part of their program services.”

Identification and Placement• Fall screening- new students transferring to

FISD• Spring screening- teacher / parent nomination• Data reviewed by committee• Students meeting criteria are selected for the

program ( 2 Quantitative / 2 Qualitative )• Parent contacted• Participation is voluntary

GT Services in FISD• SEARCH (K-5th)

• Grouped with other gifted students• Differentiated Instruction• Pre-Advanced Placement classes- Jr. High

• Advanced Placement classes - High School

• Also…– Destination Imagination (2nd -5th grade)– Robotics (4th & 5th grade)– Mathletes (2nd & 3rd grade)– Young Inventor’s Showcase (4th grade GT)– Mars Rover (5th grade GT )– Spelling Bee (3rd -5th grade)

CharacteristicsCompared to other children your child’s age, your child may show

many of these characteristics:

• Reasons well• Learns rapidly• Has extensive vocabulary• Sensitive• Perfectionist• Intense• Has strong curiosity• Has a high degree of energy• Prefers older companions or

adults• Has a wide range of interests• Has a great sense of humor• Concerned with justice, fairness• Is a keen observer• Has a vivid imagination• Tends to question authority

Kinds of Gifted Learners:

• Studious High Achievers

• Social Leaders

• Creative Intellectuals

• Gifted Underachievers

High Achiever Gifted Learner Creative ThinkerRemembers the answers. Poses unforeseen

questions.Sees exceptions.

Is interested. Is curious. Wonders

Is attentive. Is selectively mentally engaged.

Daydreams.

Works hard to achieve. Knows without working hard. Plays with ideas and concepts.

At the top of the group. Beyond the group. In own group.

Learns with ease. Already knows. Questions: What if…

Enjoys school often. Enjoys self-directed learning.

Enjoys creating.

Absorbs information. Manipulates information. Improvises.

Completes assignments on time.

Initiates projects and extensions of assignments.

Initiates more projects than will ever be completed.

*Joseph Renzulli

8 Gripes of Gifted Kids:1. No one explains what being gifted is all about. 2. School is too easy or boring. 3. Parents, teachers and friends expect us to be perfect all the time. 4. Friends who really understand us are few and far between.5. Kids often tease us about being smart.6. We feel overwhelmed by the number of things we can do in life. 7. We feel different and alienated.8. We worry about world problems and feel helpless to do anything

about them.

From When Gifted Kids Don’t Have All the Answers: How to Meet Their Social and Emotional Needs by Jim Delisle

SEARCH(SEEK, EXPERIMENT, ANALYZE, RESEARCH, CREATE, HYPOTHESIZE)

• Provides GT services in the four core areas and in areas such as productive thinking, problem solving, logic and leadership as identified by the state plan

• Curriculum of greater depth & complexity• Challenges students in pull-out lessons with

increased student responsibility

• GOALS– Develop problem solving and

communication skills necessary for success in life

– Become independent, life-long learners– Become producers and contributing members

of society– Develop a healthy self-concept enabling

teamwork and collaboration

• Critical Thinking

• Creativity/Innovation

• Communication

• Collaboration

SEARCH SCHEDULE

Bales

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday

8:30–9:15 4th (Galli)

10:00-10:45 4th (Hoskins)11:50–12:05 5th (Corley) 12:05-12:40 Lunch12:40–1:10 5th (Corley) 2:15–3:00 5th (Lusk)

Westwood

Thursday

8:30-9:15 1st (Limmer)9:45-11:45 3rd (Defibaugh)12:30-2:30 2nd (German)

Friday

8:30-9:30 1st (Limmer)11:50-12:20 3rd (Rogers)12:20-1:00 Lunch 1:00-2:30 3rd (Rogers)

Units of Study:1st Grade:

Productive ThinkingScientific Method

Color Wheel & SymmetryCereal

2nd Grade:Portfolios SCAMPER

CardsCodes & Ciphers

3rd Grade: Personal Artifacts

ArchaeologyMysteries

Great American Campout

Units of Study

4th Grade: Perspective

This I Believe Galimoto Innovation

Artists

5th Grade: Leadership The Brain

Mars RoverMiddle Ages

• Critical Thinking

• Creative Thinking

• Communication

• Collaboration

• Self-Directed Learning

• Behavior

Destination Imagination• Creative Problem Solving Competition• Builds creativity, problem solving, team work• 5-7 students on a team• Challenges / Rising Stars• www.idodi.org• www.texasdi.org

• Information Meeting September 19th in Bales Library 5:30.

RoboticsWe participate in the

TCEA LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Challenge.

This year’s challenge is

Rubble Trouble!For more information on the challenge,

visit www.tcea.org/robotics

Robotics team members should have the following qualities:

•Team player•Interest in engineering, programming , math•Highly self-motivated•Willing to learn•Able to handle constructive criticism•Willing to commit an extensive amount of time Applications due to Mrs. Mueller

September 13th!

Helpful Websites / Books:

www.txgifted.orgwww.hoagiesgifted.orgwww.sengifted.orgwww.nagc.orgwww.davidsongifted.orgwww.tip.duke.org

Growing Up Gifted by: Barbara ClarkWhen Gifted Kids Don’t Have All the Answers by: Judith GalbraithYou Know Your Child is Gifted… by: Judith GalbraithGuiding the Gifted Child by: James Webb

Thank you for coming tonight!

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Stacy Muellersmueller@fisdk12.net