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• Suppose that no zaggars are jaffers. And suppose
  that all blakkas are zaggars. What else must then
  be true?

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PACE
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• Moorestown Schools
• Mission Statement
• To best meet the needs of all students with
  programs sustainable to the taxpayers.
• Challenge Program
• Mission Statement
• To meet the academic, social, emotional and
  psychological needs of gifted children.

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Challenge and Enrichment Opportunities Kindergar
ten Classroom Balanced Literacy
Outliers First Grade Classroom Balanced
Literacy Outliers Whole Class
Challenge Second Grade Classroom Balanced
Literacy Reading/Writing Enrichment Math
Investigations Pullout Challenge Third
Grade Classroom Balanced Literacy
Reading/Writing Enrichment Math
Investigations Pullout Challenge
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Whole Class Challenge

• 1st Grade Whole Class Enrichment
• 2nd and 3rd Grade Mathematics Investigations
  Pilot

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First Grade Whole Class Enrichment Curriculum

• living vs. non-living things
• mammals
• spiders
• fish
• birds
• insects

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Whole Class Enrichment 1st Grade

• Whole class enrichment is a time when the
  challenge teacher meets with each 1st grade class
  on a weekly basis.
• This component of the challenge program is
  designed to give every student a chance to enrich
  his or her thinking.
• The challenge teacher models higher level
  thinking activities with all students.
• The Challenge of the Week is an optional
  extension activity offered weekly.

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Mathematics Investigations

• Students spend time exploring problems in depth.
• Students express their mathematical thinking
  through drawing, writing, and talking.
• Students develop their own strategies and
  approaches to problem-solving based on their
  knowledge and understanding of mathematical
  relationships.

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Small Group Enrichment

• K, 1 Reading Outliers
• 2nd, 3rd Reading Writing
• Challenge teacher works with groups of students
  to support enrichment in the areas of reading and
  writing.

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What is the Identification Timeline for Pullout
Challenge?

• Rising 2nd Grade
• Challenge teachers maintain a year-long dialogue
  with the classroom teacher and observe students
  through whole class enrichment.
• May and June 2007- Assessments are administered
  by Challenge Teachers to all students.
• June 2007 1st grade teacher evaluation.
• September 2007 MAP assessment.
• Early October 2007 2nd grade teacher
  evaluation.
• October 2007 additional assessments as needed.
• October 2007 Committee review and notification
  letters mailed home.
• October 2007 Pullout Challenge begins.

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What is the Identification Timeline for Pullout
Challenge?

• Rising 3rd Grade
• May 2007 MAP assessment
• May 2007 Teacher evaluation
• June 2007 Additional assessments as needed.
• June 2007 Committee review.
• September 2007 Notification letters sent home.

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Giftedness
National Research Center on the Gifted and
Talented
Above Average Ability
Highly Motivated/Task Commitment
Academically Gifted Child
Creativity
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Characteristics of a Bright Child and Gifted
Learner

• BRIGHT CHILD
• Knows the answers
• Is interested
• Is attentive
• Has good ideas
• Works hard
• Answers life questions
• Top group
• Listens with interest
• Learns with ease
• 6-8 repetitions required for mastery
• Understands ideas
• Enjoys peers
• Grasps the meaning
• Completes assignments
• Is receptive
• Copies accurately
• Enjoys school
• Absorbs information

• GIFTED LEARNER
• Asks  the questions
• Is highly curious
• Is mentally and physically involved
• Has wild, silly ideas
• Plays around, yet tests well
• Discusses in detail, elaborates
• Beyond the group
• Shows strong feelings and opinions
• Already knows
• 1-2 repetitions required for mastery
• Constructs abstractions
• Prefers adults
• Draws inferences
• Initiates projects
• Is intense
• Creates a new design
• Enjoys learning
• Manipulates information

Szabos, J.(1989)
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Thinking Skills

• Evaluation judge the value of new info and
  make predictions.
• Synthesis - combine various pieces of info to
  form a new product.
• Analysis - relationships between components of
  information.
• Application - use previously learned
  information in a new situation.
• Comprehension - understanding information and
  text.
• Knowledge - recall of data and information.

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Pullout Challenge Program

• Students who qualify for the pullout program work
  with the challenge teacher in small groups
• Pullout classes are 80 minutes/per week
• Students work on projects that encourage them to
  use analytical and critical thinking skills
  (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation)

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Contact Information

• Jane LaMarra
• Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum
  Instruction
• jlamarra_at_mtps.com
• 778-6600 ext 18020

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Challenge Enrichment Teachers

• Sherry Burns
• Baker School
• sburns_at_mtps.com
• Paula Kitts
• Roberts Schools
• pkitts_at_mtps.com
• BJ Lemaire
• South Valley School
• blemaire_at_mtps.com