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Tierrasanta Elementary School GATE Program

Tierrasanta Elementary School GATE Program. Examples of Differentiation. GATE CLUSTER. We offer a differentiated curriculum in all of our GATE Cluster classrooms GATE Cluster classrooms are offered in grades 3, 4 and 5 GATE Cluster teachers are GATE certified. Our GATE Program.

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Tierrasanta Elementary School GATE Program

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  1. Tierrasanta Elementary SchoolGATE Program Examples of Differentiation

  2. GATE CLUSTER • We offer a differentiated curriculum in all of our GATE Cluster classrooms • GATE Cluster classrooms are offered in grades 3, 4 and 5 • GATE Cluster teachers are GATE certified

  3. Our GATE Program Grades 3-4-5 Highlighting some of the GATE strategies we employ

  4. 3rd Grade Featured Strategy ICONS

  5. DIFFERENTIATION using the ICONS Students use ICONS to help identify elements of depth and complexity to examine content critically.

  6. Lesson Elements Students use their social studies book and other Time for Kids texts to learn about the sequence of events and describe how each period of settlement left its mark on their community. After each period of history students create a flip-book using the ICONS to provide the students with more challenging learning opportunities than retelling or summarizing.

  7. Each individual flip-book is put together to create a book on The Growth and Changes of our community. • Students create a cover to make generalizations.

  8. ICONS and Topics • Explorers Details, Patterns, Unanswered Questions • Spanish Settlers and Early Communities • Details, Ethics, Language of the Disciplines • Communities Change – Ranchos and Pioneers • Details, Multiple Perspectives, Unanswered Questions • Growth of Cities – Gold Rush and Entrepenuers • Details, Trends, Language of the Disciplines

  9. Cover and Back Students take all the information throughout the unit to draw conclusions using the “over time” ICON and big ideas and generalizations. They show this information in written form with pictures to illustrate and glue it to the back of the book. Students came up with the ten most important words that would symbolize the big ideas or generalizations. They used their netbooks to create a document using clip-art or pictures to go with the words and added an explanation. Students create a Title to show generalizations about their research.

  10. Students at Work

  11. Student Work

  12. Student Work

  13. Student Work

  14. 4th Grade Featured Strategy Taba Questioning

  15. Taba • Inductive Reasoning • Taba strategies focus on making generalizations through concept development.

  16. Differentiation - Levels of Taba Questions • Concept formation • Interpretation of data • Application of principles

  17. Concept Formation • Step 1 - Free Association (whole class) Students come to the rug and freely associate any words or concepts related to the Electricity and Magnetism FOSS Science unit. These words are charted by the teacher and entered in the students’ science notebooks Teacher guides the students to come up with the appropriate concepts and vocabulary terms.

  18. Interpretation • Step 2 - Grouping and Labeling Working in small groups and pairs, students group together similar ideas and label them with a concept or reason why they are put together. Students are guided to explore the relationship between electricity and magnetism.

  19. Application • Step 3 - Summary of Learning Students use what they have learned in this lesson to write a final summary of their understanding of electricity and magnetism. They include the concepts discussed in class and support they categories they made with evidence from their experiments or readings.

  20. Concept Formation

  21. 5th Grade Featured Strategy Independent Study

  22. Independent Study • Topics are student selected - teacher approved. • Content addresses student passions, readiness levels and learning styles • Promotes independence and lifelong learning • Allows for advanced learners to learn at their appropriate pace.

  23. Science Fair Research & Investigation • Topic is standards based • Depth and complexity are built into the project • Research and experimentation

  24. Application of the following skills: • Planning and organization • Observation • Measuring and recording data • Hypothesizing • Experimentation • Prioritizing • Analyzing • Synthesizing • Connecting conclusions to the real world

  25. Independent Research Products

  26. GATE SEMINAR PROGRAM

  27. Seminar Program offered in grades 3-4-5 • Seminar qualified students • Unique learning environment • Smaller class sizes

  28. Seminar Video • To see 60 seconds in our classroom, click on the picture

  29. For more information on our GATE or Seminar Program • GATE leader teacher - Jeni Lench - Tierrasanta Elementary School • 858-496-8255 • jlench@sandi.net

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