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Define & Deliver:Multiplying your GT Impact
Cindy ClarkMcFarland School District GT Resource Teacher
[email protected] WATG, October 9, 2014
What are my roles? Responsibilities? Priorities?
Who must I work with? What is my preferred model for
acting? How will I be evaluated – Teacher
Effectiveness?
Essential Questions
STUDENT Needs + Time + Obligations + Partners/Audience + Mission = YOUR GT REALITY
YOUR GT REALITY (plus NAGC Standards) = readiness to select/discuss evaluation components
(See session: “Who is an effective gifted educator: Linking Educator Effectiveness & Gifted Ed., Friday 2:30 – 3:30)
Define Your GT Reality
Seer into the future Font of all knowledge and wisdom Human library of resources and perfect
answers Motivator & performance guru Social graces instructor Perfect Role Model Instant problem solver Collaborator of all trades 24 X 7
Remember What You Are Not. . .
Elements to consider: Formal Job Description (obligations &
rationale clues) Informal expectations and perceptions
of colleagues, administrators, and BOE members
Student and parent expectations and needs
Time Own values, training, and beliefs
Define Your Roles, Responsibilities, Priorities
WHOLE child focus – more than dataAsynchronyResponsibility, initiative, resilienceAuthenticityParentsSystem requirements
Know your rationale for all you prioritize
It’s About Students, But Which?
Your defined GT Reality – Your Personal Commitment Early goal (in service to your long-term quest)? What/ Who do you need to know?
StudentsWho focus, how many, do you know them as
people or on paper, what do they really need? Staff and administrators
Begin with those you know best and “g/t friendly”
Define your “ask” – in two clear, short sentences, at most.
To Deliver: Create your plan?
First focus: highly – exceptional students (and families) Academic growth
Life skill developmentSocial-emotional health***Authenticity***
Second: other top performers and achievers (at HS)
Ex: Fundamentals of My Plan
Check-list Calendars / Schedules GT student lists New students list (review files) Class rank lists (for reference) – Sept. &
Feb. Testing data (confirmation & sleepers) Teacher & student schedules (semester)
Impact multipliers: Ready-for-new- year Tools
Impact multipliersGuidance Department, Psychologist,
Activities/testing coordinatorSpecial Ed Dept. (re: 2E students) ELL teacherTeachersAdministratorsParents
Impact Multipliers: Collaborations
Share information; foster connection Create class rosters after last schedule changes Visit teachers (including ELL and Sp. Ed) to
review their class lists and talk about what they see re: highly able kids (LISTEN first, then speak!)
Mini-in-service (New Teacher GT 101Bright Kids or Gifted Kids, Mindset Works, Social-Emotionsal)
Mid semester progress/concerns check-in
Collaboration: Teachers
Share information, foster connections Long-range planning meetings Addition social-emotional support for
students Special Ed meetings with/about 2-e student Mini-in-services (if they cannot make staff
inservices)
Collaboration: Guidance, ELL, Special Ed., Librarians
To keep them in the loop Long-range vision (inclusive), THIS year goals
and activities (what you will do). Schedule regular update meeting (that works for
you) Mini-in-service opportunity/ introduce evaluation Share Students focus list(may be same as
Guidance list)
Collaboration: Administators
Other routine, continuous activitiesOngoing issuesTesting data (as available)GT Team meetings
With students (continuous)Check-in with most asynchronous2EIntrovertsMotivated and high-initiativeUnderachievers
Impact Multipliers: Activities/Services
Who? Most asynchronous Most successful, highest potentialWhy? Get to know each other Support students Mentor Info sharing & reminders:
PSAT, Youth Options, Internships, course planning, Independent Study Group Gatherings Breakfasts or lunches, during ASR (intervention time)
Impact = Service to Students
Thank you for joining me today. But more, Thank YOU
for your Dedication and Care for
Wisconsin’s Gifted and Talented Children.
Questions?
Contact me at: Cindy Clark, McFarland High School GT Resource Teacher, McFarland High School, 5103 Farwell St., McFarland, WI.
608-838-4500 ext. 4537 mailto:[email protected]
My Go To Resources & Contact Info
Hoagies Gifted Education Page, http://www.hoagiesgifted.orgSENG (Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted) http://www.sengifted.orgNAGC (National Association for Gifted Children) http://www.nagc.orgWATG (Wisconsin Association for Talented and Gifted) http://www.watg.orgImagine Magazine http://www.cty.jhu.edu/imagineJim Delisle (Everything he does – see Pieces of Learning, Prufrock Press, Amazon)Jean Sunde Peterson, Purdue faculty, (Free Spirit Press, Great Potential Press, Amazon)
