Mrs. Goodson’s Curriculum Night

Mrs. Goodson

• Professional

• Personal

Gifted Testing

• Testing for grades 3-5 will be at the district office in September and January. The testing will be on a Saturday and is from 9:00-12:00.

• Testing for K-2 will be in October and March and will be at the school.

Gifted and High Achieving Students at Lomas

• Title 1 schools include high achieving students to participate in Gifted Curriculum.

• The placement for high achieving students is fluid and not permanent. The best place-ment is a classroom that a student can succeed in and be happy. The best place-ment is not always the gifted classroom.

Language Arts• Novels- Reading must be done for Tuesdays and Fridays

for group discussions• Writing- • Vocabulary

– Wordsmith– Novels– Wordly Wise

• Jr. Great Books• Homework is listed on my website:

www.kyrene.org/mgoods

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Math

Common Core Math Standards for 4th, 5th and some 6th grade

Fosnot Math Units problem solving approach-uses real-life situations to model mathematical ideas

Number Strings/ Number talks

Investigations/Connected Math Group Math Projects- in class

Hands on Equations Scott Forseman

Exit questions quizzes biweekly Homework M,T,Th

Nonverbal

Auditory Sequential Visual Spatial

Thinks primarily in words Thinks primarily in pictures

Has auditory strengths Has visual strengths

Usually good organization Creative organization

Can show steps of work easily Arrives at correct solutions intuitively

Processes from easy to difficult Gets difficult concepts often but

struggles with easy concepts

Relates well to time Relates well to space

Learns by trial and error Learns concepts all at once.

Does this look familiar?

Nonverbal

• NV reasoning @ school

• Creating using graphs, tables, charts

• Activities involving mapping, measuring, scale drawings

• Statistics and data analysis• Science experiments• Number patterns and

sequencing• Designing inventions, simple

machines

• NV reasoning @ home

• Sudoku or Ken-Ken puzzles• Legos, k-nex, checkers, chess• Origami• Brain teasers• Art projects• Activities that involve drawing

conclusions based on a set of givens

• Cooking, woodworking

K-3 Cluster classes

• There is ongoing professional development for the cluster teacher.

• Besides myself there will be an additional gifted teacher who will be in contact with your child’s classroom teacher to provide additional support.

• This model has been shown to improve student• achievement across all academic levels. • Differentiated Learning Plans provide a framework

for instruction for your child.

Additional Resources

• Kyrene Gifted Webpage http://sw.kyrene.org/Page/1021

• Nonverbal Resource Page http://sw.kyrene.org//site/Default.aspx?PageID=1051

Contact Information

• Phone contact is 480-541-3534 • Email is your best bet to contact me.

• mgoods@kyrene.org Michele Goodson

• Website for homework www.kyrene.org/mgoods

Thank You

Questions?