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Single Subject Acceleration: Parent Meetings

Single Subject Acceleration: Parent Meetings. July 17, 2013 August 21, 2013 September 11, 2013. James Overman. Welcome & Introductions. James Overman. Desired Outcomes. Understand the process of online learning for your child.

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Single Subject Acceleration: Parent Meetings

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  1. Single Subject Acceleration:Parent Meetings July 17, 2013 August 21, 2013 September 11, 2013

  2. James Overman Welcome & Introductions

  3. James Overman Desired Outcomes • Understand the process of online learning for your child. • Understand the resources available to support your child in online learning. • Build connections with school and district staff to support the process.

  4. Ruth Steidinger & Brian Pittman Online Course Information • Traditional calendar • Start date: August 26, 2013 • Blackboard course • Grading scale

  5. Christina Zukowski Common Core Math 6 PLUS • Curriculum includes: • All of the 6th grade standards • Ratios and Proportional Relationships • Number System • Expressions and Equations • Geometry • Statistics and Probability • Part of the 7th grade standards • All of the Ratios and Proportional Relationship Domain • Part of the Geometry Domain • Students will take the 5th grade EOG

  6. Christina Zukowski Common Core Math 6 PLUS • Resources: • Holt Course 1 Textbooks (supplemental resource) • Online calculators • Online Videos

  7. Christina Zukowski Common Core Math 6 PLUS • Students on this trajectory will likely exhaust high school math course offerings by the junior year. • Common Core Math I and II taken in middle school will count for HS credit and appear on the student’s transcript but will not factor into the student’s GPA.

  8. Kathy Rhoades 6th Grade Language Arts The curriculum includes all of the 6th grade ELA Common Core Standards, such as: • A focus on argumentative writing with the use of textual evidence • Close reading of literary and information texts • Analysis of text for explicit evidence as well as inferred content • Comparison of different literary genres • Language instruction in grammar that includes pronoun case and proper usage, intensive pronoun usage, and the correction of vague pronouns Students will take the 5th grade EOG

  9. Kathy Rhoades Sixth Grade Language Arts • Resources • Prentice Hall Common Core Six Edition • Online videos and text • Online collaboration tools such as Edmodo and VoiceThread • Novels

  10. Kathy Rhoades 6th Grade Language Arts *This course counts for high school credit and appears on the student’s high school transcript but does not factor into the student’s GPA.

  11. Wendy Carlyle AIG Support • Enrichment units • Real world connections • Investigations • Feedback provided • Identify areas of need in grade skipped • More advanced text levels • Point of contact • AIG teacher at the elementary school

  12. Tina Gallucci & Amy Walter Meet the Teachers

  13. Academics & AIG Staff Questions

  14. Contact Information • Ruth Steidinger, Sr. Director Academic Program and Support • rsteidinger@wcpss.net, 919-852-3307 • Brian Pittman, Sr. Director Middle School Programs • bpittman@wcpss.net, • James Overman, Sr. Director Elementary Programs • joverman@wcpss.net, 919-431-7440 • Wendy Carlyle, Director of AIG • wcarlyle@wcpss.net, 919-431-7656 • Christina Zukowski, Sr. Administrator Middle School Math • czukowski@wcpss.net, 919-431-7474 • Kathy Rhoades, Sr. Administrator Middle School ELA • krhoades@wcpss.net, 919-431-7644 • Michelle Tucker, Sr. Administrator Elementary Math • mtucker@wcpss.net, 919-431-7646 • Sharon Collins, Sr. Administrator Elementary ELA • sgcollins@wcpss.net, 919-431-7461 • Tina Gallucci, Online Math Teacher • cgallucci@wcpss.net, 919-363-1870 • Amy Walter, Online ELA Teacher • awalter@wcpss.net, 919-570-2285

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