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Elementary School

Gifted and Talented Education Program

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Our G/T Staff

  • Robert Schwab: rschwab@hcpss.org
  • Ben Weiskind: bweiskind@hcpss.org

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To recognize and develop talent in ALL learners, including those already performing at advanced levels.

G/T Education Program Mission

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Program Components

  • Primary Talent Development
  • G/T Instructional Seminars
  • G/T Math
  • Curriculum Extension Units (CEUs)
  • Research Investigations

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PTD: Primary Talent Development

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  • Push-in model in K and 1
  • Support development of creative and analytical reasoning
  • Extend learning for students already performing at advanced levels

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Instruction in Advanced-Level Skills

Open to All Interested Students

Creative Production or Inquiry

Talent Development Offerings:

G/T Instructional Seminars

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G/T Instructional Seminars at Our School

Cinderella Around the World (2)

Magic (3)

Nature (3)

Poetry (4)

Stock Market (5)

The Biological Ocean (5)

Unheard Perspectives (3, 4, 5)

Mr. Bear Mystery (2)

Origami (3)

Shipwrecked Adventure (3)

Vacation Planning (4)

Movie Making (4)

Cryptology (5)

Genealogy (5)

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Where can I find out more about G/T Instructional Seminars at our school?

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  • Our school website/Class Canvas Pages
  • Fliers sent home with your students
  • School’s G/T Resource Team
  • School’s HCPSS News
  • Interest forms in Friday Folders

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  • Accelerated and enriched curriculum
  • Focus on problem solving and application of mathematics
  • Daily instruction

G/T Mathematics

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4th Gr G/T Math Domains

  • Problem Solving Throughout
  • Multiplication and Division
  • Fraction Operations
  • Place Value and Decimal Operations
  • Expressions and Equations
  • Volume and Area
  • Geometry/Coordinate Plane
  • Statistics

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5th Gr G/T Math Domains

  • Problem Solving Throughout
  • Ratio and Proportion
  • Unit Rates and Percent
  • Fraction and Decimal Operations
  • Integers
  • Rational Number Operations
  • Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities
  • Geometry and Formula Applications
  • Data and Statistics

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  • CogAT administered to ALL students in December of 3rd grade.
    • Meets State COMAR requirement for an ability measure.
    • Helps identify students who may underperform in school.
  • All students reviewed as part of G/T Placement Process using multiple criteria.

Placement Process for G/T Math

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Measures Included

in Placement Process

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  • Ability Measure (CogAT)
  • Standardized assessments (MAP, MCAP)
  • Student work samples
    • Application
    • Analysis
    • Problem Solving
  • Student grades on assignments requiring critical, analytical, and/or creative thinking
  • Documentation from families

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How can families support the placement process?

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  • Provide the school information regarding your child’s academic strengths, including activities outside of school.
  • Request clarification regarding your child’s strengths and/or challenges in a class.
  • Communicate regularly with the G/T Resource Teacher.

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G/T Curriculum Extension Units

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Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

2nd Grade

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Exploring Earth

Economics of Production

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3rd Grade

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Weather

Environmental Literacy

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4th Grade Option 1

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Waves of Communication or Colonial Cultures

The Road to Revolution or Earth’s Systems

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4th Grade Option 2

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Colonial Cultures

Saving Tangier Island

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5th Grade

We the Students

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River Watch

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  • Interdisciplinary
  • Advanced-level content
  • 2 per grade lasting approximately 4 weeks during the corresponding content time
  • All students considered as part of G/T CEU Placement Process using multiple criteria.

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Curriculum Extension Units (CEUs)

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  • Multiple performance measures used to indicate readiness for participation.
    • Performance tasks
    • Writing samples
    • Standardized test scores (MAP, MCAP, CogAT for 4th and 5th)

Placement Process for CEUs

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Supporting Your Child

  • Communicate with your child’s classroom teachers and the G/T Resource Teacher.
  • Encourage your child to take advantage of enrichment opportunities, such as G/T Instructional Seminars.

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Nurturing Advanced Behaviors at Home

Advanced Language

Logic and Reasoning

Motivation and Persistence

Leadership

Perspective

Increase

use of sophisticated language.

Share your thinking. Think sequentially.

Ask thought-

provoking questions.

Show how you solve problems. Discuss strategies and create new ways to solve problems.

Discuss various perspectives.

Ask provocative questions.

Take things apart and put back together – ideas, objects or experiences.

Encourage independence.

Model taking initiative.

Demonstrate and model flexibility in your thinking by examining opposing points of view.

Point out similarities and differences.

Organize collections or ideas in insightful ways.

Show curiosity about ideas, events, experiments, experiences.

Set high expectations.

Embellish/ expand thoughts, perspectives, etc.

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  • Become a G/T Resource volunteer
  • G/T Parent Academies
  • Become a G/T Parent Representative
  • HCPSS News for G/T Program Information

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Opportunities for Parent Engagement

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  • Our school website
  • HCPSS G/T Program website at www.hcpss.org/gt
  • NAGC website at www.nagc.org
  • Our G/T Resource Team

For More Information

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