Talent Development Department Welcome! Please sign-in. There is a sign-in sheet for each grade level. 6 th Grade 7 th Grade 8 th Grade Questions? In lieu

Talent Development Department

Welcome! Please sign-in. There is a sign-in sheet for

each grade level.

6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade

Questions? In lieu of time, please use the index cards provided. Along with your question: include your name, child’s name, grade level, and your contact information.


Middle School Talent Development Program

Annual Parent Meeting

September 12th, 2013Carmel Middle School


AIG Mission

To provide appropriate

intellectual opportunities that

help academically gifted students realize their potential and connect them to their complex world.


AIG Vision

For students from all cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds who are academically gifted to have a rigorous and relevant educational experience.


What CMS will do to obtain this vision: Use multiple criteria to identify students. Provide CMS educators with comprehensive

training in best practices. Support a continuum of differentiated instructional

opportunities that relates to and expands the Common Core State Standards.

Match students with services that provide instruction geared for significant academic growth while encouraging other strengths and talents.

Support families in their efforts to support these students.


Understand their unique social and emotional needs.

Strive for self-actualization. Foster creative, critical, and innovative thinking. Practice self-directed learning and independent

problem solving. Engage in collaborative experiences. Develop a capacity to see interconnections among

disciplines. Apply life skills for leadership, accountability,

adaptability, productivity, and social responsibility.


Everyone works collaboratively to meet the needs of gifted learners.

Classroom Teachers

Content Specialists

Academic Facilitator

Parents

Middle School

Program


Standard Plus

For students who need to be challenged with enriched grade level curriculum and work beyond their grade level.

Standard Plus courses are offered in Language Arts and Mathematics.


Honors Courses

For students who need to be advanced in their learning, which will require curriculum beyond grade level.

Honors courses are offered in Language Arts and Mathematics.


Placement in Honors Classes:

Students are placed in the course based on:

Their EOG Math & Reading Scores Grades & Prior Course Enrollment Academic Performance Teacher Input


Desired Outcomes

Curriculum studied in greater depth through the rigor of lessons and differentiated activities.

Curriculum accelerated to include above-grade level material when appropriate.

Advanced pace of learning (some VHS classes offered).


What is differentiation?

“A differentiated learning experience occurs when educators modify the regular curriculum setting and select instructional practices that reflect students’ readiness for learning. This ‘readiness’ includes ability levels, achievement levels, interests, and learning preferences.”

~ Mary Landrum~

Educational Consultant


Practices & Strategies

Divergent Questioning & Rigor Socratic Seminars Text Complexity Research Skills & Investigations Arts infusion Multiple Intelligences Reflective assessment/Product assessment Performance-based assessment

How is middle school TD different from elementary school TD?

Carmel uses cluster groups to serve our TD students in the classrooms. We do not use a “pull out” model; instead students are served in their classrooms through differentiated instruction. Students are provided learning experiences and assessments that are conceptually advanced, challenging and complex. Lessons involve critical thinking, creative problems solving and inquiry based assessment. Teachers will use pre and post assessments to determine students’ strengths and weaknesses as well as ensure that students have mastered concepts taught.

Our Goal: to provide appropriately challenging, stimulating experiences throughout the school day.


How will Carmel Middle School communicate with the parents of our TD students?

Each quarter we publish a newsletter to parents of TD students. The newsletter can be found on Carmel’s web page under Academic Enrichment.

At the end of the year a Performance Review will be sent home with every TD student along with their CMS report card.



CarmelMiddle SchoolWebpage

Academic Enrichment

http://schools.cms.k12.nc.us/carmelMS/Pages


Special Programs at Carmel National Academic

League (NAL) Drama Club Jazz Band Battle of the Books Science Olympiad Math Counts National Junior Honor

Society (NJHS) - 8th grade

Shakespeare Recitation Contest

Student Council Geography Bee Spelling Bee Future Business Leaders of

America (FBLA) Writing & Poetry Contests Odyssey of the Mind (OM) Chess Club Duke Talent Identification

Program (TIP)


What do gifted services look like?

MathLanguage ArtsScience Social Studies


Middle School Math Overall Goal

To prepare students for higher level math courses at the high school level such as Advanced Placement (AP classes) and International Baccalaureate (IB Program).

Math

Math I (Algebra) is offered in 7th and 8th grade this year


Math

Math II (Geometry) will be offered in 8th grade next year



Language Arts

Concept Driven Connections

Critical StanceInterpretationInquiry Based


Language Arts

SpringBoardCollege Board’s official Pre-AP

program“Back-Mapping” instructional

designThematically designed units

SpringBoard Themes

6th Grade – Change7th Grade – Choice8th Grade - Challenge



Overall Goal

To build higher level literacy strategies that will build success in all subject areas.


You might see…

Cooperative Learning Investigations Inquiry & Questioning Socratic Seminars Visual representations of

ideas Interdisciplinary work Performance Based Tasks

Mini-ProjectsAuthentic TasksApplication of

knowledge in new settings

Literature CirclesThinking Maps


DUKE T. I. P. Mr. Canupp– 7th grade Counselor

Criteria to participate: Scored at or above the 95th percentile on an accepted subtest

(Based on 5th grade scores)


Tonight:

Teachers will be giving specifics about their curriculum and their instructional practices

Please remember that tonight is NOT a time for parent conferences. If you have concerns about your child, please e-mail the teacher and/or the Academic Facilitator. If the question is on differentiation within the class, please see the teacher first.


T.D. Contact Information

Peggy Fadero

Carmel Middle School

Academic Facilitator

Phone: 980.343.6705 ext. 239

Email: [email protected]


Carmel Middle School

Marc Angerer

Principal Melanie Francis

Assistant Principal Leanne Conyers

Assistant Principal Patrick Dean

Dean of Students

Documents

Talent Development Department Welcome! Please sign-in. There is a sign-in sheet for each grade level. 6 th Grade 7 th Grade 8 th Grade Questions? In lieu