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Education... NIS Gifted Coordinator -
Mrs. Marcia Martin
The mission of the Nottoway County Public Schools is to improve opportunities that enable students to enjoy life, contribute to others’ well being, and become responsible productive citizens in a global community.
The Nottoway County Public Schools recognize that each child is a unique and worthwhile individual and has the right to an education commensurate with his/her abilities. It is our responsibility as a public education system to encourage and assist each of our students in developing his/her unique abilities. Therefore, the Nottoway County Public Schools are committed to gifted students and provide a K-12 program of appropriately differentiated educational opportunities for them.
Further, we believe that each student’s educational needs must be addressed as an integral part of the comprehensive school program. Nottoway County Public Schools will provide services to gifted students within the classroom and through a variety of enrichment and extension opportunities.
This section includes the division’s five-year goal(s) for each of the five components listed below. These goals serve as targets against which the division will evaluate its growth and development.
1. Identification: To effectively identify students with general and specific intellectual aptitude with a special emphasis on students from previously underrepresented populations.
2. Delivery of Services: To provide all students a program of instruction that is appropriately differentiated, sequential, and continuous, this will be implemented in a consistent manner division-wide.
3. Curriculum Development: To develop strategies that will promote extension and differentiation with regard to the Standards of learning in all content areas.
4. Professional Development: To provide staff development opportunities that help create a cadre of highly motivated personnel who understand, appreciate, and are able to foster learning in gifted students.
5. Parent and Community Involvement: To foster an understanding of the need for and support of gifted education by establishing and maintaining an on-going working relationship with parents and the community.
Description of Services:
The Gifted Program Coordinator and resource personnel will work with individual teachers and gifted students to develop learning plans to adapt the core curriculum to make it more challenging and to provide differentiated learning experiences for the gifted students.
Students will be provided the opportunity to increase their knowledge base and skills in general content areas at an accelerated rate, while being provided a variety of enrichment opportunities.
Students are provided instruction based on their individual needs. This is done through differentiated instruction. Bloom’s Taxonomy is used by teachers in order to meet the diverse needs of students.
NIS GT Projected Services for 2008-2009 School Year: Working through broad based themes, students will incorporate higher level thinking skills, independent study skills, creative acquisition and analysis of information. Student presentations and their products will be included as a means of communicating the re-conceptualization of existing information and/or generation of new information.
1. Mock Election in November (organized and presented by 5th and 6th grade gifted students)
2. NIS School Store (operated and managed by 5th grade gifted students)
3. Yearbook (5th and 6th grade gifted students)
4. Odyssey of the Mind Spontaneous Problems (5th and 6th grade gifted students)
5. Morning Announcements (5th and 6th grade gifted students)
6. Enrichment Activities in core content activities (5th grade gifted students)
7. Beta Club (5th and 6th grade students)
8. Culturally Diverse Activities in Art, Music, P.E., Library (5th grade and 6th grade gifted students)
Proposed Schedule for Projected Services:
1. For specific activities, Gifted Students will report to Ms. Saunders in room 207 during homeroom resource time.
2. The second Thursday of every month, 5th Grade Gifted Students will report to Ms. Saunders in room 207 for 60 minutes during 5th Period.
3. The third Thursday of every month, 6th Grade Gifted Students will report to Ms. Saunders in room 207 for 60 minutes during 6th Period.
4. Students will be responsible for all material missed in class.
5. The services offered by GT are not optional services.
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