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C.L.I.M.B.

• Challenging Learners!
• Inspiring Minds Beyond Boundaries!

Presented by Laura Messinger Enrichment
Specialist
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CLIMB Enrichment Program District-Wide
Identification Model
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Alignment

• Definition
• Services
• Identification Model

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Who, What, When, Where, Why How Do We Identify
Students for Enrichment Services?
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Who are we identifying?

• Those students with exceptional creative and
  intellectual abilities requiring additional
  differentiation of instruction in order to reach
  their potential.

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Who are we identifying?

• Approximately 5 for direct services.

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Who are we identifying?

• Indirect support services for the
  remainder of students
• Consultation collaboration with teachers for
  optimal differentiation

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Who are we identifying?

• 2nd graders are recommended for evaluation in the
  following school year

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Who are we identifying?

• Students new to the district at any grade level
  for which services are offered and for whom
  recommendation is made

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What are we identifying?

• Although there are many diverse gifts and
  talents, we will identify only those we can best
  serve in this program, grades 3-5.

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What are we identifying?

• 1. Specific Academic Ability
• Language
• Math
• Science
• As measured by achievement data

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What are we identifying?

• 2. General Intellectual Ability
• Non-Verbal Reasoning
• 1. Serial Reasoning
• 2. Analogous Thinking
• 3. Pattern Completion
• 4. Spatial Visualization

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What are we identifying?

• 3. Creative Thinking
• Mental Characteristics
• Fluency
• Originality
• Abstraction
• Elaboration
• Creative Strengths

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Why are we identifying?

• Colchester Public Schools is committed to helping
  every child reach his or her potential.

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Why are we identifying?

• Identification is the first step to ensuring
  students receive appropriately differentiated
  educational programming.

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Why are we identifying?

• Connecticut State Law Requires the Identification
  Annual Reporting of Gifted Students.

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How are we identifying?

• Utilize Identification Matrix

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How are we identifying?

• Naglieri Non-Verbal Ability Test
• Torrance Test of Creative Thinking Figural

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How are we identifying?

• Accept Recommendations From
• Faculty Staff
• Parents
• Others

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Other Enrichment Services

• Production Companies
• Town Meetings
• Artists in Residence
• After School Clubs
• Math Olympiads
• Invention Convention
• Lego Robotics
• Band

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Other Enrichment Services. Cont.

• Chorus
• AP Classes
• JETS Engineering Club
• Robotics
• Drama Productions
• Math Counts
• Book clubs

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Other Enrichment Services. Cont.

• Oceanology Trips
• JETS Engineering Club
• Leveled Math
• Leveled Self-Selected Reading
• Leveled World Language

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References

• Colangelo et al. A Nation Deceived How Schools
  Hold Back Americas Brightest Students, 2004.
• National Association of Gifted and Talented
• Connecticut State Department of Education