1. September 21, 2015 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Kolak Education Center - Board Room Advanced Learner Open House

2. Advanced Learning Resource 4K - 3rd Grade Carole Campbell ccampbel@sdb.k12.wi.us 361-4082

3. Advanced Learning Resource 4th - 5th Grade Sheri Drolshagen sdrolshagen@sdb.k12.wi.us 313-4621 (Google Voice)

4. Advanced Learning Resource 6th - 12th Grade Kristy Champion kchampion@sdb.k12.wi.us 361-4082

5. 5 Areas of Identification General Intellectual Specific Academic Creativity Visual/Performing Arts Leadership

6. General Intellectual Characteristics ● Understands complex concepts ● Draws inferences between content areas ● Sees beyond the obvious ● Thrives on new or complex ideas ● Enjoys hypothesizing ● Intuitively knows before taught ● Uses an extensive vocabulary ● Does in­-depth investigations ● Learns rapidly in comparison to peers (1­2 repetitions for mastery) *Adapted from the National Association for Gifted Children

7. Specific Academic Characteristics ● Manipulates information ● Strong memorization ability ● Intense interest in a specific academic area ● High academic capacity in special­ interest area ● Pursues special interests with enthusiasm ● Operates at a higher level of abstraction than peers ● Asks poignant questions *Adapted from the National Association for Gifted Children

8. Creativity Characteristics ● Discusses and elaborates in detail ● Exhibits original thinking in oral and/or written expression ● Generates many ideas to solve a given problem ● Possesses a keen sense of humor ● Creates and invents ● Intrigued by creative tasks ● Improvises and sees unique possibilities ● Risk taker ● Resists conformity *Adapted from the National Association for Gifted Children

9. Visual/Performing Arts Characteristics ● Communicates their vision in visual/performing arts ● Unusual ability for aesthetic expression ● Compelled to perform/produce ● Exhibits creative expression ● Desire for creating original product ● Keenly observant ● Continues experimentation with preferred medium ● Excels in demonstrating the visual/performing arts *Adapted from the National Association for Gifted Children

10. Leadership Characteristics ● Takes an active role in decision making ● High expectations for self and others ● Expresses self with confidence ● Foresees consequences and implications of decisions ● Follows through on a plan ● Appears to be well­ liked by peers ● Ideas expressed accepted by others ● Sought out by others to accomplish a task *Adapted from the National Association for Gifted Children

11. Advanced Learner Website School District of Beloit --->Departments --->Gifted and Talented http://www.sdb.k12.wi.us/Domain/98

12. Website - Identification

13. Identification - General Intellectual (Website)

14. Identification - Specific Academic (Website)

15. Identification - Creativity (Website)

16. Identification - Visual/Performing Arts (Website)

17. Identification - Leadership (Website)

18. Response to Intervention (RtI)

19. Upcoming Events... * See website for additional upcoming events

20. Programs - Arts Immersion Day *See Website for additional information

21. Programs - VPA Showcase * See website for additional information

22. Programs - Kids @ BIFF * See website for additional information

23. Programs - SENG Group * See website for additional information

24. Programs - Destination Imagination * See website for additional information

25. Programs - Math 24

26. Programs - Developing Leaders * See website for additional information

27. Programs - NUMATS * See website for additional information

28. Programs - DRIVEN * See website for additional information

29. Programs - SL Anthology * See website for additional information

30. Programs - College Matters * See website for additional information

31. Programs - MS Leadership Conference * See website for additional information

32. Programs - Engineering Expo * See website for additional information

33. Social/Emotional Needs

34. What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. Chuck Grassley

35. Wisconsin’s View FACT Wisconsin explicitly defines RtI as a process for helping all students reach higher levels of academic and behavioral success.

36. Universal Screening Level 3 Level 2 Tier 2 Tier 3 In Addition Instead of District Curriculum Tier I and Level 1 “All” students experience differentiated lessons Tier 2 Robinson & Kueht 2008

37. Our Roles as Advanced Learning Resource Teachers: 1. Student Identification 2. Student Programming 3. Communication 4. Building Teacher Capacity

53. http://www.slideshare.net/sholomfried/differentiated-instruction-powerpoint-for-pd-workshop-4464340

57. Use higher level questions...

58. Menus...

59. Learning Contracts...

60. When the needs of gifted children are not met, one or more of the following are likely to occur: Perfectionism Underachievement Negative self-image Isolation Severe identity issues Dropping out Not attending college Some hide giftedness Others act out Stress Depression Self mutilation Suicide

61. Southern Lakes Advanced Learners Network

62. Greater Dane County Advanced Learner Network

63. As James Gallagher wrote in 1978, ”…failure to help the gifted child reach his potential is a societal tragedy, the extent of which is difficult to measure but which is surely great. How can we measure the sonata unwritten, the curative drug undiscovered, the absence of political insight? They are the difference between what we are and what we could be as a society."