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Academic Challenge & Enrichment, Gr. 4-5 Curricular Extensions for the Gifted

Providing innovative, differentiated learning experiences for gifted students through critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. Join us for a journey of problem solving and design thinking. Scholarly behaviors and 21st-century skills emphasized.

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Academic Challenge & Enrichment, Gr. 4-5 Curricular Extensions for the Gifted

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  1. Academic Challenge & Enrichment, Gr. 4-5 Curricular Extensions for the Gifted Liesel Steines Supervisor of Curriculum, Instruction & PD September 12, 2018

  2. Curriculum Writer Mrs. Stacia Mascharka Gifted & Talented [ACEs 4 - 5] Full School Enrichment [Curiosity Corner K - 3]

  3. What is giftedness? Dr. Joseph Renzulli’s Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness

  4. ACEs Program Mission The Academic Challenge & Enrichment program provides students identified as gifted with instructional extensions/ modifications in the form of innovative, sophisticated, and differentiated learning experiences. • Through flexible units of study inspired by authentic problem solving, students are guided toward continued development of higher-order processes and strong critical and creative thinking skills. • Experiential opportunities empower students as effective collaborators, communicators, and problem solvers among a team, and foster the growth of individual talents.

  5. “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” • Albert Einstein

  6. Scholars... are ready to learn, actively participate, and take risks. take time to ponder. are curious and ask questions. examine many points of view. persevere and exercise their intellect. set both short and long term goals. take pride in the quality of their work. exhibit academic humility; there is always more to learn. Scholarly Behaviors Dr. Sandra Kaplan University of Southern California

  7. Targeted Skills & Competencies 21st Century Skills • Critical Thinking • Creativity • Communication • Collaboration Higher-Order Thinking Skills • Create • Evaluate • Analyze • Apply Comfort & Competence with: • The open-ended • Divergent thinking • Respect • Self-Reflection

  8. Units of Study Year A • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving • Design Thinking / Prototype Development • Communicating through Robotics Year B • Creative Coding & Problem Solving • Exploring Giftedness • Engineering

  9. Sample EQs/ EUs Essential Questions • How can individual ideas be further enhanced through collaboration? • In what ways can one creatively expand upon limited information to solve challenges? • How can creative problem solving skills be used to formulate design solutions? • How can we communicate respectfully and effectively through online platforms and shared technologies? • In what ways can we nurture each individual’s strengths? Enduring Understandings • Design is a method of exploring creative ideas and transforming them into tangible products that offer value to a variety of disciplines. • Learners benefit from recognizing, understanding, and honoring their unique strengths and areas of growth. • Creativity, innovative thinking, and problem solving are critical skills that can be developed with targeted practice. • The critical thinking skills of observing, interpreting, inferencing, and evaluating can be used to develop and prove conjectures.

  10. Learning in Action:Design Thinking / Prototype Development(Year A) Students utilize Stanford University’s Design Thinking process to develop innovative solutions to problems and 3D prototypes that bring their creative ideas to life!

  11. Learning in Action: Creative Coding & Problem Solving (Year B) Students code pitch, roll, and yaw gyroscopic angles to program the robot to navigate their maze, complete with a water slide finale!

  12. Thank You! @FLPS_Curriculum

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