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Gifted Program & Enrichment @ the Ridge
IROQUOIS RIDGE HIGH SCHOOLGrade 8 Parents Night
Nov 17, 2016
Mr. David PearceSpecial Education (Gifted) Resource Teacher
ALEX & AUSTIN
A Special Shout Out to My 2 Volunteers:
▶ Supports classroom teachers and students by generating ideas, providing resources and collaborative time to discuss curriculum development
▶ Meets with gifted students 2x/year, monitor their progress, and update the IEP as needed
▶ Develops transition planning for students▶ Maintains and updates Enrichment website▶ Manages Enrichment activities outside of the
classroom
The Special Education Resource Teacher
1. Teaching Gifted & Highly Able students2. How Clustering is Done3. Enrichment Opportunities
Topics to be Covered
Definition of “Giftedness”:An unusually advanced degree of general intellectual ability that requires differentiated learning experiences of a depth and breadth beyond those normally provided in the regular school program.
Ontario Min. of Ed. Special Ed. Guide for Educators 2001
1. Teaching Gifted & Highly Able Students
▶ Keen to go beyond the curriculum▶ Anxious to share ideas and discuss
areas of interest▶ Think/process quickly ▶ Continuously ask questions,
inquisitive
Traits of a Gifted and/or Highly Able Learner
▶ Skip steps in a process and jump to the answer
▶ Have messy notebooks/incomplete homework OR are perfectionists with extraordinary organization
Traits of a Gifted and/or Highly Able Learner
▶ Differentiated curriculum ▶ Greater depth, breadth and a faster
pace.▶ Evaluated on the same scale and
expectations as Academic classes▶ Enrichment opportunities – often a field
trip, guest speaker, special lab, choice projects
Learning in a Clustered Enriched Class
▶ Focus on Critical and Creative Thinking▶ High Level Questioning▶ RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, Topic)▶ Think Tac Toe
Strategies for Differentiated Classrooms
▶ Students are offered choices to meet their Learning profile needs.
▶ Sometimes students are challenged to work outside of their areas of strength to precipitate personal growth
▶ Always, students are encouraged to challenge themselves to learn
CHOICE!
▶ “A great classroom conveys to all students ‘This is hard, but you can do hard things, and I am not willing to let you settle for less’”
- Carol Ann Tomlinson
“Failure is not an option” - Apollo 13
Challenging Work = Growth
▶ Students are clustered by:a) identification (Gifted) orb) marks (Highly Able)
▶ Clustering in Grade 9 occurs in: Math, English, Science and Geography
▶ Students cannot be clustered AND in French Immersion unless timetable easily permits it and it does NOT interfere with French Immersion
2. How Clustering is Done
▶ Formally identified “Gifted” students are placed in clustered classes first according to their IEP placement
▶ They may choose to be in some or all of the 4 clustered classes offered in grade 9
Placement in Clustered Classes for Students with an IEP (Gifted)
▶ Highly Able students fill the classes according to marks, beginning with the student with the highest mark in each specific subject.
▶ Students can be invited into more than one class but in each case it depends on their marks for that subject.
Placement of Highly Able Students
▶ February Report marks are used first and the invitation is dependent on the student maintaining a grade above the “cut off” by the end of the year.
▶ If they do not do so, another student with a
higher mark may be invited into the class and the original student moved to an academic class.
Placement of Highly Able Students
▶ Invitations (a letter and/or phone call) are issued to the highly able student and parents, they may choose to accept or reject that invitation to join the clustered class(es).
▶ Once the classes are filled to approx. the same size as Academic classes in the same subject area, the class is “closed”.
Placement continued
▶ If your child was identified in another boardOR
▶ If you would like to see if they meet the criteria to be identified “Gifted” in the Halton District School Board
1. Send a copy of a psycho-educational testing report to me, David Pearce
2. It is then reviewed by our Board Psychological Education Consultant
3. IPRC happens
Process for Identification HDSB
Enrichment is for EVERYONE!
3. ENRICHMENT AT IRHS
OUR ENRICHMENT WEBSITE
▶ Advanced Placement▶ E=mc2 (Queens)▶ Encounters with Canada▶ SHAD Valley▶ Rotary Camp Enterprise▶ Ontario Student Leadership Conference▶ COLs Leadership▶ Waterloo Unlimited▶ Ontario Student Leadership
Conference
Enrichment Opportunities
● Student Senate● SHSM● Writing & Speaking Contests● Math, Computers, Science Contests ● Language & Cultural Exchanges● Skule Sisters● Go Eng Girl● Duke of Edinburgh● Brain Bee
Enrichment Opportunities
Go to www.irhs.caFeel free to contact me at any time
Mr. David PearceE-mail: pearced@hdsb.ca
Phone: (905) 845-0012 x255Gifted Education Office: Room 214
Website: http://enrichridge.blogspot.com/
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