Welcome to Target!Tritt’s Target Team: Tamera Neal, Jill Pierce, Allie Walker, and Angela Wilson

Our Mission

To prepare gifted students for an ever-changing global marketplace where innovation is key and where they must be self-reflective, goal-oriented problem-seekers and solvers

How We Get There

Concrete AbstractSimple ComplexProduct ProcessFewer Facets Multi-FacetedMore Structured More OpenGuided Facilitated

• Aligns with the Gifted Standards

• The elements increase in complexity across grade levels

• Administered quarterly (First grade: end of semester)

Target Progress Report

Quarterly & Annual Review

Assessment Indicators

• (S) Successful: When the student consistently and independently demonstrates outcomes supporting grade level standards and elements.

• (P) Progressing: When the student has demonstrates outcomes supporting grade-level standards and elements with support.

• (D) Does not meet: When the student has shown limited progress in demonstrating of outcomes supporting grade-level standards and elements.

Gifted Standards

• Cognitive Growth• Affective Growth

Cognitive Growth

• Convergent Thinking• Algebraic Thinking• Divergent Thinking• Evaluative Thinking• Relationships/ Connections• Communication

Convergent Thinking

▪ Students will reason logically using induction and deduction.

▪ Examples: logic problems, analyzing reason, drawing conclusions

Logic Problem

Algebraic Thinking

▪ Students will search for patterns in mathematics, symbolically represent mathematical relationships, and solve algebraic problems

▪ Examples: algebraic equations and real-world verbal contexts

Primary Alegbra

Hands-On Equations

Divergent Thinking

• Students will think creatively to generate innovative ideas, products, or solutions to problems.

• Cognitive Components of Creativity: Fluency, Flexibility, Originality, and Elaboration

• Affective Components of Creativity: Risk-taking, Complexity, Curiosity, and Imagination

• Examples: brainstorming, transformations, creative problem solving, repurposing items

Evaluative Thinking

• Students will evaluate and solve a variety of authentic problems and dilemmas.• Examples: Ranking and evaluating the

quality of ideas for problem solving (evaluative thinking process); using and creating rubrics to assess work

Relationships and Connections

• Students will identify relationships and make connections among various topics and disciplines. • Examples: Researching real-world topics

and making connections to other disciplines; reflecting on societal and/or environmental issues and developing potential solutions

Communication

• Students will interact and exchange ideas, feelings, information, thoughts, and knowledge with others.• Examples: Effective verbal and nonverbal

communication, understanding and adjusting communication for a given audience, reading a variety of texts and writing for a variety of purposes

Affective Growth Standards

• Collaboration• Self-Reflection• Respect for Others• Self-Directed

Learner

A Typical Target Day

• Class meeting• Cognitive and affective lessons• Research, discussion, simulation, experimentation,

problem-based learning, STEM• Algebraic thinking• Technology integration• Independent and collaborative

Expectations

• Task commitment/personal best

• Short and long-term projects

• Collaboration• Communication – oral

and written• Individual

accountability• Homework

Home/School Communication

• Blog• E-mail• Phone calls• Conferences

Please make sure you complete and return the student information form so that we have your contact information and preferences.

Current Topics of Study

▪ Grade 1: P.A.C.E.▪ Grade 2: P.A.C.E.▪ Grade 3: F.L.O.W.▪ Grades 4-5: The Great

Outdoors: Independent Study

▪ Process Focused▪ Interdisciplinary

Homeroom/Target Classroom

• Gifted students are not expected to make up missed regular classroom work or homework on scheduled Target day but are responsible for turning in all other homeroom tasks as assigned

• Target homework permitted on Target day

Resources for Parents

▪ Raisin’ Brains: Surviving My Smart Family, by Karen L.J. Isaacson

▪ Secret to Raising ‘Resilient’ Kids▪ Hoagies Gifted Education Page▪ SENG▪ www.mindware.com

Questions?