Transcript Talent Development Presentation

Hale Community School’s
Talent Development
Presentation
MPS Beliefs
• Beliefs
• All students at all ages have relative talent strengths, and schools should
help them identify, develop and understand their own special abilities.
• The development of ability or talent is a lifelong process requiring effort
and support.
• Schools can and should be places for developing the talents of all
students.
• Highly talented students demonstrate outstanding achievement or show
potential for high levels of accomplishment relative to others of similar
age, experience, and environment.
• Highly talented students have cognitive and affective needs requiring
differentiated and challenging educational programs/services beyond
those provided in the general education program.
• Highly talented students represent the diverse populations of our
communities, and can be identified throughout their PK-12 program to
provide the appropriate instruction and support for continuous growth.
MPS Commitments
•
Providing opportunities for all children to develop and demonstrate advanced
learning behaviors, including children from groups underrepresented in advanced
programs.
•
Building a profile of student strengths which can be used to document the need
for differentiated curriculum and instruction.
•
Identifying highly talented students for the purpose of providing appropriate
instruction and support which meet these students’ unique academic and
social/emotional needs.
•
Building the capacity of MPS teachers, leaders and families to recognize, nurture
and accelerate talent development.
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Aligning our program with the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) PK12 Gifted Program Standards
Advanced learners are students from
all cultural and socioeconomic groups
who
perform at, or show the potential for
performing at an outstanding level when
compared with the age, experience or
environment. They have cognitive and
affective needs that require a
differentiated curriculum and instruction.
Elementary Advanced Learners
Ability
CogAT 7
Achievement
MAP
Demonstrated
Behaviors
Teacher Rating
Scales/Parent
Survey
All 2nd
graders
are screened
universally.
K, 1st, 3rd,
and
4th graders
are
nominated.
Timeline
Identification Process
• November: Informed consent letters will go home to second
grade families describing the identification process and the
cogAT7.
• December: A district cadre will administer the cogAT7 test to
all second graders. (It takes about one hour)
• December: Kindergarten, 1st, 3rd and 4th grade teachers and
or parents can nominate students with high achievement or
ability to be identified as advanced learners. These students
will be given the cogAT7 test, and both teacher and parent
rating scale needs to be completed.
• Spring: Parents will be notified of the results of the
identification process with a letter delivered via US Mail.
Hale Community School’s
Levels Of Service Plan
• Level One Services (for ALL): field trips, guest speakers,, residencies,
author visits, science fair, culture night, all school assemblies
• Level Two Services (for MANY but not all) based on interest: Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, Community Ed. Offerings, choir, band, Lego
League, chess club, spanish, french, Hwa Ran Do, Mad Science.
• Level Three Services: (For Some- including students who have been
identified as advanced learners) Continental Math League for
grades 1 – 4. Differentiation by 2nd and 3rd grade teachers including
an enrichment teacher for literacy and inquiry, 4th grade for math
and guided reading, Regrouping for 1st grade for advanced
differentiation of core content in literacy with depth, complexity,
novelty and acceleration in all classrooms.
• Level Four Services: (For Few) Emphasis on subject or grade
acceleration or individual ILPs. Special projects for individual
students.