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Opportunity. For Life.
Solving the CRISIS: Designing Real-World Gifted Programming Through Partnership
with Content Specialists
Melissa A. Rains, M.Ed.Assistant Director for Elementary Programs
Duke University Talent Identification Program
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TIP is a self-supporting, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to the identification and support of academically gifted students.
Arm-in-arm with schools and families, Duke TIP identifies talented young people and provides them with a wide array of fulfilling educational opportunities from fourth grade through twelfth.
Founded in 1980, more than 2.5 million students have participated in the Duke TIP talent searches.
What is Duke TIP?
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A one-week summer residential program for fifth and sixth graders in the 4th–6th Grade Talent Search.
Allows students to explore fields to discover who they are and what they want to be.
Students assume the role of a professional and work on teams to solve a community crisis.
Utilizes problem-based learning and content specialist models.
What is CRISIS?
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Past CRISIS programs
2012 - Earthquake Business & Government Communications & Media Health & Medicine Structural Engineering Wildlife Sciences
2013 - Hurricane Business & the Private
Sector Civil Engineering Communications & Media Government & Public
Policy Medicine & Public Health Meteorological Sciences Wildlife & Environmental
Sciences
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The Content Specialist Model A partnership between
experts in a specialized field and experts in the classroom.
Broadens and enriches experiences offered to students.
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The Curriculum Should:
Provide mastery of the structure of knowledge in the discipline;
Deliver an understanding of the basic concepts, themes and principles within; and,
Engage students in problem-solving, creativity, data collection/analysis, and research skills.
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The Challenge of Curriculum Development To design and develop such curriculum, the K-12
teacher requires an impressive variety of skills and knowledge.
The range of knowledge and skills that address sophisticated content in a variety of areas will rarely be found in a single human being.
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To address this problem, James Gallagher implemented the Content Specialist model in developing curriculum, based on the idea that... The sophisticated knowledge of the content areas is in the possession of scholars and academicians who are often found in university settings…
A Solution to the Challenge
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“…whereas the special knowledge of how to design experiences and programs for specific gifted youngsters is most likely in the possession of experienced and capable special [gifted] education teachers.
The physical and psychological distance between persons with these attributes has been inhibiting sophisticated program development during the past several decades.”
A Solution to the Challenge
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Combining problem-based learning with the content specialist model:
Helps students make connections between classroom learning and the real world;
Fosters an inventive spirit in students so they recognize the world’s problems and needs and think of how to design, test, redesign, and implement practical solutions;
Provides high level content specific knowledge of a field for the rigor gifted students require; and,
Allows educators to focus on the development of the problem-based, interdisciplinary project.
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Why should I want to learn more about this? Grant Opportunities Interdisciplinary team of teachers After school projects Quarter long projects
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Roadmap to CRISIS
Identify the learning project. Identify potential
partnerships. What to ask your partners to
develop. Taking what they develop
and turning it into meaningful and usable lesson plans.
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Identify the projectIdentify potential
content specialistsFind content specialists
Design your curriculum GO! GO! GO!
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Identify the project
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Identify the project
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Identify the project
Identify potential content
specialists
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Identify the project Identify potential content specialists
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Identify the project Identify potential content specialists
Find content
specialists
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Identify the project Identify potential content specialists Find content specialists
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Identify the projectIdentify potential content
specialists Find content specialists
Design your curricu
lum
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Identify the projectIdentify potential content
specialists Find content specialists Design your curriculum
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GO! GO! GO!
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Evaluation Methods
Rubrics Presentations Debates Journals Discussion Groups Show and Tell
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Coming to a program site near you!
Influenza Pandemic Biomedical Engineering Business and the Private Sector Finance and the Global Economy Government and Public Policy Journalism and Media Technology Medical Facilities and Acute Care Management Pharmacology and Immunology
2014
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QUESTIONS?
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Contact Information
Melissa Rains
919.668.9100
