1. Prosper ISD Elementary Gifted and Talented Program

2. Meet the GT Staff Janet Anders Jenna Whatley Wendy Kruse
Director of Advanced Academics
Jenna Whatley
Elementary GT Campus Specialist
Baker and Cockrell
Wendy Kruse
Elementary GT Campus Specialist
Folsom and Rucker

3. Schedules Wendy Kruse: Monday/Wednesday at Rucker
Tuesday/Thursday at Folsom
Jenna Whatley:
Monday/Wednesday at Cockrell
Tuesday/Thursday at Baker

4. Program Design Project based:
Kdg – Creative thinking, Fluidity, Flexibility, Elaboration, Originality
Texas Performance Standards Projects as a baseline
Lego Mindstorms in Grade 4

5. GT Program Pullout Time Frames
Kindergarten: 30 minutes per week
First Grade: 1 hour per week for projects
Second Grade: 1 hour per week for projects
Third Grade, 1 ½ hours per week for projects
Fourth Grade, 2 hours per week for projects

6. Math Enrichment Component
New this year:
Advanced Academics Math Enrichment
30 minutes of pullout for math for any students (GT or not) who score at or above the 96th percentile on MAP
GT Campus Specialist will also be providing some alternate assignments to be completed in place of the classroom assignments

7. Math Enrichment We are looking for deeper understanding and reasoning
If a child can be shown something 2 or 3 times and repeat what he/she has been shown, they may not have an understanding of the “why” – which is a foundation to advanced math in middle school and high school

8. Understanding and reasoning… Look at the problem below…does the “1” mean the same thing?

9. Math Enrichment
For students not scoring at or above the 96th percentile, we will work with the teacher to provide enrichment at the appropriate level in the classroom.
Students may sometimes have the same assignment as the rest of the class. This may be used as a preassessment or it may be appropriate for the level of understanding for that concept for your student.

10. Differentiated Instruction
We are working with teachers to differentiate for GT students who have mastered the content
Graded assignments may sometimes be different for your child
Your child should not always make a 100% - he/she needs to be challenged

11. Texas Performance Standards Projects
First Grade: SongWriter’s Club
Students will listen songs to identify language and narrative patterns. Students will research the song writing process and songwriters.
This will allow students to examine how songs communicate content and emotions.
Goals:
Identify and practice alliteration, repetition, and rhyme.
Build awareness of song structure
Create original stories
Create song lyrics based on original stories

12. Texas Performance Standards Projects
Second Grade: Pursuit of Passion
Students will explore hobbies and interests in depth from different perspectives. This will allow students to connect one’s personal hobby or interest to a related profession.
Goals: The main goal of the project is to encourage each student to pursue his or her own passion.
Understand the relationship between personal interests and society.
Become familiar with various career and study opportunities related to interests
Develop the essential skills of logical thinking, creative problem solving, intellectual risk taking and communication.

13. Texas Performance Standards Projects
Third Grade: Utopian Destination
It is a social studies unit that allows students to study the formation and history of cities and act as urban planners for a city of their imaginations.
This allows the students to look deep into the history of our local community and other communities and ensure their Utopian City meets the needs of government, education, communication, transportation, and recreation.

14. Texas Performance Standards Projects
Project Goals:
The students will become familiar with urban planning.
They will examine how cities evolve over time and how natural resources play an important role in adaptation.
The students will develop a proposal and presentation for a new city, complete with charter, governance structure, services outline, transportation plan, maps, and materials for promoting tourism and business development.

15. Texas Performance Standards Projects
Fourth Grade: Enigmas (Through December)
The students will investigate a naturally occurring enigma or unsolved mystery.
They will use logical thinking and creative problem
solving to research an enigma and how it manifests
itself. They will investigate theories about the
cause of the enigma, and then hypothesize the
cause of the enigma.

16. LEGO Mindstorms Robotics
Fourth Grade: (January-May)
The students will build and program robots that will perform loads of different operations.
Step 1: The students will build their robot.
Step 2: The students will program their
robot using the LEGO Mindstorms software.
Step 3: The students will test and run their
program.

17. Prosper Gifted Association DI – Destination Imagination
Opportunities for you!
Prosper Gifted Association
DI – Destination Imagination
Odyssey of the Mind

18. Questions?