Target Open House

1. Mt. Bethel Target
Open House
August 2015Stacye Fogel - 1st Grade
Claryn Burnett - 2nd Grade
Carolyn Griffin - 3rd, 4th & 5th Grades
Julia Varnedoe - 3rd, 4th & 5th Grades

2. Our ALP Mission
To prepare gifted students
for an ever-changing global marketplace,
Where innovation is key,
and where they must be self-reflective,
goal-oriented problem-seekers and
solvers.

3. Our Theme for 2015-16
Collaborate
Innovate
Create

4. Our Theme for 2015-16
Collaborate...
✘Communicate proactively with parents and utilize
their expertise
✘Work together with experts from the community
✘Student to Student
✘Student to Teacher

5. Our Theme for 2015-16
Innovate...
✘Office 365
✘Edmodo
✘Class Dojo
✘Robotics (3rd)
✘Inventure (4th/5th)
✘We will continue to
seek out additional
opportunities, as well

6. Our Theme for 2015-16
Create...
✘Inventions
✘Relationships
✘Production of
original works
through use of
technology

8. Our Mission:
Develop Thinking Skills

9. 1. Rank and evaluate the quality of ideas for problem solving
2. Use and create rubrics to assess work
3. Develop tool to assess performance-based products and
personal goals
4. Research, Service Learning, Problem Based Learning
Thinking

10. Thinking
● “Creative Thinking”
● Affective: Risk-Taking, Complexity,
Curiosity and imagination
● Cognitive: fluency, flexibility, originality,
elaboration
● Brainstorming: Creative Problem
Solving, Problem Based Learning

11. ● Higher level thinking
skills…
○ Metacognition
○ Observation
○ Questioning
○ Predicting
○ Analyzing
● Research, Service Based
Thinking

12. Thinking
● Students reason logically
● Hands on Equations,
Algebraic Reasoning, Logic,
Exemplars

13. Relationships and
Connections
Students will make relationships and
connections among various topics and
disciplines.
✘Research: Real-world topics and making
connections to other disciplines
✘Reflect: On societal and/or environmental
issues and developing potential solutions

14. Affective Growth
Affective standards address the social-
emotional needs and life skills that gifted
students need for success.
Topics include:
✘Communication
✘Collaboration
✘Self Reflection
✘Respect for Others
✘Self-Directed Learning

15. 1st Grade Curriculum

16. 2nd Grade Curriculum

17. 3rd Grade Curriculum

18. 4th & 5th Grade
4th & 5th Grade Curriculum

19. Progress
Report
✘Aligns with the
Gifted Standards
✘Consistent for all
grade levels
✘Administered
quarterly

20. Learning Skills
Assessment Indicators
Successful (S) = Consistently and independently
demonstrates outcomes supporting grade-level
standards and elements
Progressing (P) = Demonstrates outcomes supporting
grade-level standards and elements with support
Does Not Meet (D) = Limited progress in demonstration
of outcomes supporting grade-level standards and
elements

21. Continuation Criteria
Gifted services are recommended for the following
year if:
✘Student has met continuation criteria in 3 out of 4
quarters
AND
✘Student has received a minimum of 1 “S” per
standard in at least 7 out of 11 standards over the
course of the academic year

22. Expectations
Be Prepared
✘Homework
✘Checks
Edmodo
✘Target Folder
✘Charged
Device
✘Lunch/Snack/
Water Bottle
Task
Commitment
✘Stays on task
✘Consistently
puts forth best
effort
✘Works
independently
Accountability
✘Student takes
responsibility
for own actions
✘Respectful of
others
✘Participates
appropriately in
group setting
Class Dojo will be used to communicate student progress each
week. Please be sure that you have signed up online.

23. Target Policies
✘ Absent students MUST check with Target teacher and
check Edmodo for missed work and homework
✘ Gifted students not expected to make up missed regular
classroom work or homework on scheduled Target days,
but are responsible for understanding any concepts
covered
✘ Target homework due on next scheduled Target day or
on date indicated
✘ Parents...please send written note to Target teacher for
dismissal changes (in addition to the note sent to
student’s homeroom teacher)

24. ● Common website, blog updated weekly:
www.mbestarget.wix.com/gifted
● Email - Addresses listed on front page of website.
We will do our best to respond to you within 24 hours.
● Phone - Please note that we are typically not able to
access the phone during school hours, as we are with
students
● Scheduled conferences, as needed
Parent
Communication

25. Thank You...
Thank you to the MBES PTA and Foundation
for their support of our Target program and
initiatives. If you have not had the
opportunity to join, please do so today!!!