Transcript Who are These Kids Called Gifted?

Welcoming
Gifted and Talented
About Mr. Messier
 HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY
 Elementary Ed/Psychology
•Masters Degree in MST
(STEM) Science, Tech, Engineering, Math
•Educational Leadership Administration Certification
•Part of Stratford Family for 16 years
•Mathlete’s Coordinator
Goals/Objectives of QUEST
GOALS
 The students will expand thinking capacities: creative,
critical, logical reasoning, meta cognitive, conceptual.
 Provide for the cognitive and academic development
through challenging, inquiry based learning
experience.
 The students are empowered to perform a high level of
achievement and to develop their individual,
exceptional abilities.
Goals/Objectives of QUEST
Objectives
 The students will develop an understanding of their own needs and talents in
order to select and to apply learning to new situations, to pace learning
experiences, to evaluate their progress, and to show growth in individual
responsibility, self management, and social ability.
 The students will show ability in logical reasoning and in the critical thinking
skills of observing, inferring, collecting data, classifying, analyzing,
synthesizing, evaluating, and problem solving.
 The students will show creativity in their capacities for fluency, flexibility,
originality, elaboration, and transformation.
 The students will demonstrate understanding of the various types of research
and knowledge of the skills and products appropriate for each type.
 The students will demonstrate understanding of the various types of research
and knowledge of the skills and products appropriate for each type.
What can we do to meet their
needs?
Gifted Truth or Consequences!
 Gifted students are social isolates by nature and prefer
to be alone. FALSE
 You can tell a gifted student by the grades and
classroom performance. FALSE
 Gifted students are at risk of underachievement. TRUE
 Gifted students will make it on their own. FALSE
 Perfectionism is the result of a pushy parent. FALSE
 Accelerating students causes social problems. FALSE
 Gifted kids are all egotistical and elitist. FALSE
Higher Order Thinking
What is Inquiry-Based Learning
Cohesiveness in STEM education (meta-disciplinary)
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Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for
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Developing and using models.
Planning and carrying our investigations.
Analyzing and interpreting data.
Using mathematical and computational thinking.
Constructing explanations and designing solutions
Engaging in argument from evidence.
Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information.
What Is STEM Education?
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Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education often has been called a metadiscipline, the “creation of a discipline based on the integration of other disciplinary knowledge into a
new ‘whole’. This interdisciplinary bridging among discrete disciplines is now treated as an entity,
known as STEM (Morrison, 2006). ” STEM education offers students one of the best opportunities to
make sense of the world holistically, rather than in bits and pieces. STEM education removes the
traditional barriers erected between the four disciplines, by integrating them into one cohesive
teaching and learning paradigm. Morrison and others have referred to STEM as being an
interdisciplinary approach. “STEM education is an interdisciplinary approach to learning where
rigorous academic concepts are coupled with real- world lessons as students apply science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics in contexts that make connections between school,
community, work, and the global enterprise enabling the development of STEM literacy and with it
the ability to compete in the new economy (Tsupros, 2009).”
Through a series on inquiry-based project modules, QUEST students will have opportunities for
exploration, individual creativity, deduction, group decision making and research science. Using
various instructional technologies, students will investigate, explore and design their own research.
Each module varies in time, however the framework for the modules is approximately 6-7 weeks. At
the conclusion of each project, students will develop a presentation of their research, designs and/or
findings. Parents will be invited to these presentations and will be informed of the date in advance.
WHY STEM? Global Leadership
 If the United States is to maintain its global leadership and
competitive position, then we just have to motivate our most
promising students into the STEM fields. Science has been identified
as a national priority, but science teachers can’t do it all on their own.
Parents have to become more interested and knowledgeable. A 2008
survey by USA Today showed that only 26% of those surveyed believe
that they have a good understanding of science. Forty-four percent
could not identify a living scientist. Our students are not stacking up
with other developed countries. In calling for common standards as
early as 2009, Representative George Miller of California, chairman of
the House Education and Labor Committee, made this statement
during a hearing “We all know the statistics—we’ve fallen to 21st in
math achievement, 25th in science, and 24th in problem solving. We
used to be No. 1 in college completion. Now we are 18th.”
THANK YOU!
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