A Realistic Approach to Teaching Gifted Education in the Classroom.You have been to all the trainings…

NOW WHAT?

Robyn ArnoldSherman Oaks Elementary Charter School

Los Angeles Unified School District

mrsarnold23@aol.com http://www.schoolrack.com/robynarnold/

Background Information/Goals

O Teacher for over 12 yearsO Specialize in Gifted Education in many

different types of schools- School for Advanced Studies, Highly Gifted, Title 1

O Original member of JAVITS Grant with Dr. Sandra Kaplan

O My goal is for you to go back to your classroom and have something to implement

Some Humor To Start Us Off…

What Happens When You Go Back to Your Class on Monday?

O Pick one thing that you have learned from this conference and apply it

O All material that has been presented is for gifted AND non-gifted learners

O Don’t reinvent the wheel!O Don’t put pressure on yourself- you

are teacher of the gifted population- NOT a gifted teacher

Activity # 1O There is NO point in putting up the

icons if you aren’t going to use themO Each day focus on introducing a FEW

icons at a time.O How do you introduce the icons?

MAKE THEM KID FRIENDLY AND SIMPLE…

This is the sign for details.

We use this sign to show evidence of

clues, facts, features, and data ideas.

Starry Night by Vincent Van Gough

This is the sign for parallel.

We use this sign to show ideas or

events that are similar.

Batman

Superman

Now You Try It…

Pick one icon and brainstorm how you would introduce it to your students.

Activity #2O Class Activity on Chart Paper O Read a story that lends itself to

multiple icons

*The Great Kapok Tree*Chrysanthemum

*So You Want To Be President* The Story of Ferdinand

Activity #2 Continued O After you read the story, divide your

students into groups and have them find evidence from the story for each icon

O Students will then share out with their classmates.

O Why do this activity- it’s a great springboard to introducing the icons, allows for small groups, and works on presentation skills.

Now You Try It…

The Three Little Pigs

Activity #3O Advanced Organizer Lessons

Activity #3 Continued

Activity #3 Continued"Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak;

they just do. But reading is different.”

Steven Pinker"The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I

[haven't] read.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

Frederick Douglass

Activity #3

Learning to read is the first step in learning about the world around you through books.

How does reading books

help students learn?

Activity #3

Research New Information

Don’t reinvent the wheel!

Activity #3

Think How To Apply It

Homework- Respond to the Following Statement:“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free,” by

Fredrick Douglas.

Discuss the of when you remember learning how to read and how it changed you for the better.

Classroom Example

Now You Try It…O How would you introduce and apply

this unclear idea to your students:Communication Has

Activity #4- The Scholar of the Week

Activity #4 Continued

Activity #4 ContinuedO Based on your theme, pick

people for your students to research.

*Vincent Lombardi *Pat Summitt*Bela Karolyi *Herb Brooks

* John Wooden

Activity #4 ContinuedO Students have one week to research

the Scholar of the Week. O Beginning of the year- bullet pointsO Middle/End of the year- paragraph

using to describe what makes that person a Scholar.

Now You Try It…

Summary

Four for you to work on when you get back into the classroom:

*Introduce the icons in a kid friendly way

*Use literature to have students find examples

*Advanced Organizer/Respond to the Following Statement

*The Scholar of the Week