1. Gifted Programs Overview
Clyde Hill
November 21, 2016

2. Gifted Program Overview
Gifted services provide instruction in the core content areas of language arts, social studies, science and math. Instruction is provided at an accelerated pace around an essential question that leads students to more complex levels of understanding.

3. Instructional Design Conceptual Knowledge Traditional Gifted
Concepts, generalizations,
principles, theories
Procedural Knowledge
Skills and strategies of
the discipline
In general, classroom instruction at school begins with teaching children facts.
Then we move into teaching skills and strategies, and finally, when possible, we move children to develop concepts, generalizations, principles, and theories.
For the majority of students, instruction is mostly provided in the factual and procedural levels.
Because gifted children think differently, it is important that we spend more time at the conceptual level and often even begin our instruction here and then fill in the facts or procedures that can help us take understanding further.
An example of this might be how we teach students about the water cycle.
They learn evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
Then we would move students into studying more about the discipline of meteorology and talk about weather caused by the water cycle.
However, when moving students to the conceptual level, we would talk about cycles in general and think about examples of different kinds of cycles, clarify our thinking by thinking about items that are not cycles, and this would lead students to make generalizations about cycles.
Then the study of cycles would lead to principles and theories.
In gifted classrooms, we would try to start with the concept of cycles and unpack what cycles really are.
Then students can make connections between the water cycle, that they are learning about, other cycles, generalizations, theories, and principles.
Factual Knowledge
Dates, times, people, elements, vocabulary

4. Curriculum and Instruction . . .
Allow students to spend more time on high levels of questioning and discussion rather than spending time gaining factual information.
Begin with big ideas, use of sophisticated note-taking tools, self-directed learning options, and varied instructional methods.
Allow students to work as a disciplinarians in the discipline, framing questions, generating ideas and multiple perspectives, researching to find hypotheses, analyzing the hypotheses and presenting conclusions.
Provide sophisticated levels of complexity by using more divergent and analytical questions, aligning instruction with the highest levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, and focusing on broad concepts that relate to multiple content areas.
Focus on advanced concepts and complex ideas, which requires that curriculum be adapted or extended to meet students’ needs.

5. Gifted Elementary School Program
GESP
2nd Grade GESP
3rd Grade GESP
Literacy
Reading and Writing
William and Mary: Beyond Words
Michael Clay Thompson: Level 1: (Partial)
Junior Great Books (2 and 3.1)
Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program; Primary Level 2
William and Mary: Journey’s and Destinations
Michael Clay Thompson: Level 1
Junior Great Books (3.2 and 4.1)
Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program; Level 1
Mathematics
Student placement is based on placement test performance
GESP Math 2: Math Expressions CCSS
M3 Math Extensions
GESP Math 3: Math Expressions CCSS
Social Studies
TCI: Our Community and Beyond
Our Community and Beyond encourages student awareness about the local and global communities in which they live. Students learn the fundamentals of geography and explore different cultures and public service roles.
“Bellevue Then and Now” Curriculum
TCI: Regions of Our Country
Social Studies Alive! Regions of Our Country presents five regions of the United States through the lens of four social sciences — economics, geography, political science, and history.
StoryPath: Understanding the Marketplace
Science
FOSS Science Kits: One grade advanced
Measurement
Human Body
Rocks and Mineral
Magnetism and Electricity
Structures of Life
Water

6. Gifted Elementary School Program
GESP
4th Grade GESP
5th Grade GESP
Literacy
Reading and Writing
William and Mary: Literary Reflections
Michael Clay Thompson: Level 2
Junior Great Books (4.2 and 5.1)
Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program; Level 2
William and Mary: Patterns of Change
Michael Clay Thompson: Level 3
Junior Great Books (5.2)
Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program; Level 3
Teacher Selected Novels
Mathematics
GESP Math 4,5, GIMT2
Student placement is based on placement test performance
GESP Math 4: Math Expressions CCSS
M3 Math Extensions
GESP Math 5: Core Focus on Math
Social Studies
The Westward Movement
StoryPath*: The Oregon Trail
Washington State History
StoryPath*: Early NW Coast Peoples
American History
A History of US: Making 13 Colonies
A History of US: From Colonies to Country
We The People
StoryPath*: Colonial Boston
Science
FOSS Science Kits: One grade advanced
Environments
Landforms
Mixtures and Solutions
Diversity of Life Populations
Ecosystems
Human Body Systems

7. Gifted Middle School Program Language Arts/Social Studies
6th Grade Gifted Language Arts/Issues in US History
7th Grade Gifted Language Arts/World History
8th Grade Gifted Language Arts/ Foundations of Civilization and Human Geography
In Math, students are afforded the opportunity to move to the level of math that meets their needs, thus we have many students who are working several grade levels above their grade of enrollment. Access to higher level LA and SS works differently, and therefore we want to ensure students have access to a more challenging path with this curriculum as well.
You will see in the GHSP curriculum that students again have choices for LA in the IB Program, so the MS scope will mirror that.
9th Grade
Gifted 9th Grade
English
Gifted AP World
History

8. Gifted Math Second Language (with general education students)
Gifted Middle School Program
Language, Math, Science & Electives
Second Language (with general education students)
Prepare to enter Interlake at Level 2 or higher in French, Spanish, Chinese OR no language.
Gifted Math
Prepare to enter Interlake at Gifted Algebra 2 or higher.
Gifted Science
6th Grade Gifted Science
7th Grade Gifted Science
8th Grade Gifted Biology
Other Electives and Requirements (with general ed)
Students choose from a variety of CTE, Arts, PE/Health

9. Gifted High School Program
Gifted 9th Grade English
Gifted IB Lit.
HL 1/AP Lang. OR
Gifted IB Lang and Lit HL 1/AP Lang.
HL 2/AP Lit.
Gifted IB Lang and Lit HL 2/AP Lit.
2 Semesters of College Level English
English
Gifted AP World History
Gifted IB History
HL 1/AP US History
HL 2/AP Government
2 Semesters of College Level Social Science
IB Diploma Years
Individuals
& Society

10. Gifted High School Program
Level 2 Language or Higher Or
Chinese 1
No Language
Level 3 Language or Higher
Chinese 2
Level 1 Language
Level 4 Language or Higher
Chinese 3
Level 2 Language
No Language Elective
Continue on Level
Level 3 Language
Language
Second
IB Diploma Years
Gifted Chemistry
Gifted IB Physics SL
IB/AP Science
Science

11. Gifted High School Program
Gifted IB Mathematics SL 1/Precalculus
IB Mathematics SL 2/AP Calculus
IB Mathematics HL
IB Further Maths HL
Gifted Algebra 2
Gifted IB Mathematics SL 1/Precalculus
IB Mathematics SL 2/AP Calculus
IB Mathematics HL
IB Diploma Years
Math

12. Gifted High School Program
Elective
9th Grade PE
IB Art/Elective
Or Elective
Health/TOK
IB Diploma Years
Arts and Electives
IB Art/Elective
Or Elective
TOK/Elective
Internship