Gifted & Curriculum

The Future Classroom...is NOW!

Relationships: Open Doors

• If you get students to believe that you care about them & want the best for them, then you can teach them anything anyway!

• Gifted & Advanced Students WANT to go DEEP. They want you to ask “Why? How? Prove it”

Snapshot:Proportions

Concept: 9 = 54 12 x

Apply it: How could we use proportions to measure the Flag Pole in the front of the school - Without touching it?!*Shadow Reckoning

Got it? Find the height of the world’s tallest building, The Burj Khalifa.

Gifted/Advanced & Cool Tools

• Mathcaching: math webquests to apply the skills

• http://mathbits.com/JrMathBits/

Alternative Assessments

• Online Testing & practice tests

• http://highmail.highlands.k12.fl.us/~pontiousl/

Projects

*Rubric

Photostory

Technology: GPS & “Geocaching”

Using real-world technology with handheld GPS units. Explore longitude & latitude coordinates & how satellites track.

Students learn how to ‘mark’ points & ‘find’ points.

Application: Field trip to Hammock State Park to explore “geocaching”-a recent worldwide phenomenon of a hobby.

Technology is Changing Everything

• Help... http:/highmail.highlands.k12.fl.us/~pontiousl/

Technology: The Future classroom (hint: It’s Now)

BYOD: Bring Your Own Device

*Coming to the High School’s in the Fall!*Middle School’s in the 2nd Term next year!

WHY??Answer:

1) Districts will never afford smart devices even though they are virtually required for Common Core

2) There are Apps for just about everything!

BYOD• Active Response Systems (clickers).

Why spend thousands...

• Celly & Socrative Apps

Got a Smart phone today?

• Let’s try celly… text @giftedclass to 23559

• m.socrative.com (students)

• Virtual room number: 846302

“waiting for teacher to start activity…”

The new SmartBoard...

• Download Doceri (whiteboard)

• Download Reflector (mirrors all devices)

• Use a tablet/Ipad

Other Teacher/Student Tools

• Edmodo.com

• Moodle.com

• Gaggle.net

• See Handout for lots of stuff (free/cheap)

Resources

Common Core & Teachers

• Want the standards? www.commoncore.org

• Want the assessment format & examples by grade? www.parcconline.org

• Florida: www.cpalms.org

• www.achievthecore.org

Common Core Aligns with Syngapore...

• The idea is Vertical Alignment of the standards. Instead of “mile wide, inch deep” learning, we do the opposite

• Pros: students learn only a few concepts but to proficiency

• Cons: Gaps need to be filled

Examples

• Singapore (slides 49,48, 52)

• http://parcconline.org/mcf/mathematics/examples-key-advances-grade-5-grade-6

• http://www.illustrativemathematics.org/standards/k8