Transcript Advanced Education Services

Advanced Education Services
impacts and benefits….
Las Cruces Public Schools
Mission
Advanced Education Services recognizes
and addresses the rights of gifted students
to be provided with the direction, time,
encouragement, and resources to realize
their potential in order to become
confident, productive adults.
Goal 1
Advanced Education Services offers gifted
students flexible pacing options and
opportunities; including accelerated
curriculum, creativity and critical thinking
skills and transition planning designed to
encourage individual progress.
Goal 2
Advanced Education Services develops in
gifted students an understanding of
individual gifts and talents, which leads to:
– Valuing themselves and others
– Recognizing and accepting personal
differences
– Using positive communication
– Strengthening self-efficacy and life resiliency
skills
Goal 3
Advanced Education Services provides
gifted students a framework and forum to
explore the benefits of developing
leadership skills and investing in his/her
community.
Goal 4
Advanced Education Services Facilitators
serve as consultants to teachers, providing
support that focuses on the needs of gifted
students.
Goal 5
Advanced Education Services Facilitators
collaborate with parents and community
to:
– To enhance the awareness of academic,
social and emotional needs of gifted students
– To advocate for gifted education
AES Impacts and Benefits
AES Facilitators
AES Students
School Community
AES Parents
LCPS Community
State
AES Facilitators
Benefits and Impact on Facilitator
All facilitators are expected to:
– Abide by the professional expectations for
AES facilitators
– Participate in 3 professional learning
committees
– Participate in individual professional
development
– Provide service that includes direct activities
and collaborative activities
– Perform special education case management
responsibilities
Professional Expectations
AES Facilitators are expected to act with
character and competence.
AES facilitators are expected to make
responsible choices.
AES facilitators are expected to make
principled decisions based on the four
critical questions:
– What do you want your students to know and be
able to do?
– How will you know when they know it?
– What will you do if they don’t know it?
– What will you do if they already know it?
AES facilitators are expected to put
relationships first.
AES facilitators are expected to
communicate equally with the all
parties with courage and consideration.
To truly advocate for the student, the
AES facilitator is expected to help
negotiate a win-win.
AES facilitators are expected to listen
before they react.
AES facilitators are expected to come
to their building administrator with a
win-win attitude to design a
collaboration component that will not
only serve gifted education but be a
valuable asset to the school community
AES facilitators are expected to Live!
Learn! Love! And Leave a legacy!
Professional Expectations Handout
Professional Learning Committees
Underachievement
Identification and Assessment
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Traditional
HB 36
Discover
F-TAP
Gifted Education Pedagogy
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Higher Order Thinking Skills
Differentiating the Curriculum
Talent Development through Enrichment
Brain Research Applied to Learning
Self Efficacy
http://lcps.k12.nm.us/departments/sped/ae
s/pd/pdindex.htm
AES benefits me by…..
AES benefits me as a professional by allowing
opportunities to work with the entire staff, development
professionally, meeting with other master teachers,
opportunity for diversity in project developments, and
allows me to be a better problem-solver when situations
arise. Erma Brooks
AES benefits me as a professional by encouraging us to
constantly seek out, then apply, current research on the
academic and affective needs of gifted students. We are
becoming a true research-based unit collaborating with
other professionals in the education field. Niki Mott
Students Who are Gifted
benefit from AES
AES Direct Services
Small Groups (Pull-Out Services)
Academics/Critical Thinking (E, M, H)
Creativity (E, M)
Leadership (E, M, H)
Performance (E, M)
Self Advocacy (E, M, H)
Underachievement (M, H)
– http://lcps.k12.nm.us/departments/sped/aes/curriculum
Acceleration
Individual and Small Group Advisement
Mentorship
Portfolios
Resources http://lcps.k12.nm.us/departments/sped/aes/studentge_links.ht
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Student Centered Activities
Convene, Develop, and implement IEPs for
each AES student on caseload.
Help design/implement/evaluate accelerated
programs for students.
Monitor success of educational programs.
Arrange independent/directed study classes
usually at high school level.
Arrange correspondence courses/college
course work. Liaison between schools when
child travels for appropriate course work.
Arrange transportation.
Act as a liaison between parents and
school.
Plan long range academic/career
objectives.
Provide AES Small groups to address
IEP Goals and Objective’s and AES
Curriculum Strands.
Provide individual monitoring.
Develop student communication skills as
necessary.
Develop student school survival skills:
Assist with scholarship preparation for
secondary students.
Create a plan of action for the
underachieving gifted child, such as;
analysis of school difficulties, AES Small
groups with documented parental
permission at IEP meeting.
AES benefits students by:
Helping them discover new/different ways of thinking and
solving problems, supporting their efforts to discover new
ways to approach learning, providing a non-judgmental
risk free environment where they can present their
"different" creative thinking, encouraging them to
develop a life long love of learning -- by enticing
curiosity, and by collaborating with their teachers to
ensure academic needs and IEP specifications are met.
Begona Farwell
Showing students as many opportunities as I can find, so
that they may make informed decisions on paths to
choose and follow. Giving students opportunities to
explore careers, post-secondary schooling options,
personal interest options.
Kristi Salgado
School Communities
School Centered Activities
Design and Implement, in partnership
with your building principal, collaboration
activities.
Work with teachers to develop goals and
objectives for student and monitor for
appropriate implementation.
Arrange logistics such as transportation
(include transportation form).
Arrange scheduling of courses.
Locate materials as needed by teacher
providing acceleration.
Document course work
Act as a liaison for teachers, students and
parents.
Complete special education paperwork.
Conduct annual reviews.
Maintain current knowledge related to
House Bill 36a.
AES Collaborative Activities
Enrichment
Teacher Consultation on Gifted Ed
Strategies
Service Learning
Special Extra-Curricular Activities
Professional Development
Researching, purchasing and presenting
materials to teachers to support and
extend coursework
Disseminating information to staff from any
presentations, workshops
Make professional literature available
Writing Staff Newsletters
Lead Group Discussion and Staff
Development Meetings
Present at the Teachers Teaching
Teachers Conference
http://lcps.k12.nm.us/departments/sped/aes/lesson_index.htm
Members of
Matrix Bank Committee
Parent Involvement
Child Study Team
Discipline Committee
Birthday Committee
Spelling B Committee
Technology Committee
Site Based Management Team
Science Committee
Character Counts
Technology Management Team
Vertical Alignment
Underachiever Intervention Team
Reading Literacy Committee
Team Leaders Plus
Magnet Teams Committees
Renaissance Committee
Picacho Recruitment committee
AP Vertical Team
CAPS/Transition
Teachers' Center Policy Board
NEA -LC Board of Directors
Sponsors
Battle of the Books
Spelling Bee
Math Night
PEACE JAM
Underclassmen Academic Award’s
Ceremony
TSA
Future Educators of America Club
College fair day
Student Council
National Honor Society
Word Masters
Laramie Project – NMSU
After School Canine Club
Career Day
Magnet Lunch Presentation
Chairperson for
HB 36 Advisory Committee
Section 504
AP Coordinator
coordinator's evaluation committee
Technology Chair
Hispano Student Awards Ceremony
PREP Committee
Administers/Proctors
AP Exams
Disabilities Tester for ACT
Explore
PSAT
PLAN
ACT
NM Competency
Otis Lenon (Gifted Screening)
Judges
School Forensics Club
Science Fair
Spelling Bee
Spanish Team Competition
Activities for ALL Students
Provide College Prep Scholarship Training
http://lcps.k12.nm.us/departments/sped/aes/College/INDEX.htm
Teach monthly critical thinking activities
Co-Teach HOTS
Tutoring
Assisting with Field Trips
Hall, Bathroom Monitoring-concession stand
Registration and Scheduling
Teach ACT Prep Class
AES Parents
Parents and Advocates of Gifted
Education
PAGE'S PAST EVENTS
– Dripping Springs Family Trip
– Understanding Your Child’s Results in Laymen’s
Terms
– White Sands Missile Range Family Trip
– College Application Seminar
PAGE’S UPCOMING EVENTS
– March/February - Family Trip to the Bosque- Date to
be Announced
– April - Dr. James Webb - Date to be Announced
– May - Agricultural Field Trip -Details to be Announced
http://lcps.k12.nm.us/departments/sped/aes/PAGE/index.htm
Parent Centered Activities
Act as a liaison between school and
parent.
Clarify IEP goals.
Complete interim reports, as needed.
Initiate long range and transition
planning.
Provide financial aid information at the
secondary level.
AES benefits parents by
providing a service to my student's parents by
communication on IEP goals, communication about
student needs and progress, communication about gifted
issues in the form of articles and newsletters, serve as
liaison between PAGE and parents of students I serve.
Susan Grandle
providing a service to my student’s parent by writing
informative newsletters, disseminating information, I
make phone calls for various reasons, I counsel parents,
make a library available to them, complete the IEP
process, do the transition meetings, and attend the Open
House where I meet parents. Erma Brooks
providing a service to my parents by being here and
being available to talk, vent, discuss, brainstorm or
gather information, provide a working parent library to
check out books, provide current research to parents
through e-mail and attachments with updates on goals
and objectives. Michelle Harris
LCPS Community
Service Learning
Involved in protest to NM Legislature to prevent
“cutting the arts”.
Renaissance Faire participation
PEACE JAM – Fighting Racism and
Discrimination among Native Americans –
Leadership Conference Opportunity - Rigoberta
Menchu Tu, Nobel Laureate 1992 from
Guatemala
Nursing Home Trip Service Learning Project
Food Can Drive
Service Learning
Reading to the Primaries
Supporting the Animal Shelter
Basic Necessities Project
Supporting Salvation Army
Laramie Project
Jardin de Los Ninos
AES benefits the community by
encouraging students to provide
community service, teaching them how to
provide service.
Kristi Salgado
making parents aware of
college/scholarship opportunities through
our AES website. Lorraine Rocks
The State of New Mexico
AES benefits the state of NM
Piloting Mary Frasier Talent Assessment
Portfolio Alternative Assessment
Piloting DISCOVER Alternative
Assessment
1 of 2 Gifted Education Websites in NM
2 participants on the NM Gifted Task Force
– Technology Spotlight
3 participants on the NM Gifted Committee
F-TAP
ACHIEVEMENT
INTELLIGENCE
CRITICAL THINKING
CREATIVE THINKING
OBSERVATIONAL/PERFORMANCE
DISCOVER
Written-Linguistic
Logical-Mathematical
Spatial-Artistic
Spatial Analytical
Oral Linguistic
AES Website
http://lcps.k12.nm.us/departments/sped/aes
Aztec, Lovington, Hobbs, Gallup
Technology Spotlight
http://www.charm-bracelet.org/spotlight/
NM Gifted Education
Committee
2004 Initiatives
Service Initiatives
Elementary – Critical Thinking Skills
Curriculum
Middle School – 7 Habits for Highly
Successful Teens and Service Learning
High School – College Preparation
K-12 – Differentiating the Curriculum
Research Initiative
Twice Exceptional Students
Social Emotional Needs of the Gifted