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BETHEL-TATE GIFTED�STEM PROGRAM�2024-2025

Open House

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Greetings from our administrative staff...

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Bethel-Tate Gifted Staff

Heather Frost

Kari Mays

-Gifted Coordinator

-BTMS 6th, 7th & 8th

  • Bick 1st and 2nd
  • Hill Intermediate 3rd, 4th & 5th

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  • Ohio Revised Code
  • Areas Served:
    • Superior Cognitive Ability
    • Reading Ability
    • Mathematics Ability
    • Creative Thinking Ability if accompanied by one other identification above
  • Testing opportunities

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Identifying Gifted Students…

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The Written Education Plan (WEP)

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When you receive your child’s WEP, please review it. If you agree to its implementation, please sign electronically and submit.

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  • Gifted Identification Dates
  • Description of Services
  • Staff member responsible for services
  • One or more goals for the student
  • Policies

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  • State Allocations

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  • Grants

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  • PALS (Parents for �Advanced Learners)

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FUNDING…

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In the Bethel-Tate Local School District…

our commitment to

our gifted students remains strong!

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Gifted Education…

  • Challenging
  • Individualized
  • Respectful
  • Engaging
  • Rigorous
  • Relevant Ongoing Assessments

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Curriculum…

  • Content Standards
  • STEM Concepts (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) with Language Arts woven throughout
  • Problem and Inquiry Based Learning
  • 21st Century Skills: Communication, Creativity, Critical Thinking and Collaboration, Leadership
  • Affective Development
  • Executive Functioning Skills
  • Community Building �

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Working Memory

The ability to hold information in memory while performing complex tasks, Lets you draw on past experience and prior knowledge.

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Emotional Control

The ability to manage your emotions to achieve goals, complete tasks, or control and direct behavior.

Task Initiation

Getting started on something without procrastination. Ready? Set, go!

Sustained Attention

Maintaining attention even when distracted, bored, or tired.

Planning / Prioritizing

Create a road map to reach a goal or complete a task. Knowing what’s important and what’s not.

Organization

Ability to create and maintain systems to keep track of information and materials

Time Management

Ability to estimate how much time one has, how to allocate time and how to stay within time limits of deadlines

Flexibility

aka GROWTH MINDSET!!! Face obstacles, setbacks, new information and mistakes.

Metacognition

The ability to take a bird’s eye view of oneself. To evaluate how you problem solve. Self monitoring, self evaluation “How am I doing? How did I do?”

Goal Directed Persistence

Having a goal, completing the goal and not getting off track with distractions and items of competing interests.

Stress Tolerance

The ability to do well in stressful situations and cope with uncertainty, change and performance demands.

Response Inhibition

Thinking before you act or speak. Evaluating a situation and how our behaviour may impact it before taking action

EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING SKILLS FOR SUCCESS

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Our Schedule… Bick Primary

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Monday

Tuesday

Wed.

1st Grade

9:15 -10:45

9:15 -10:45

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9:15 -10:45

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2nd Grade

9:15 -10:45

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9:15 -10:45

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Our Schedule… Hill Intermediate

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Monday

Tuesday

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Thursday

Friday

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5th

2:10- 2:55 pm

STEM Class

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2:10- 2:55 pm

STEM Class

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2:10- 2:55 pm

STEM Class

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2:10- 2:55 pm

STEM Class

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All day STEM if identified in both reading and math.

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4th

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1:20 - 2:05 pm

STEM Class

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1:20 - 2:05 pm

STEM Class

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1:20 - 2:05 pm

STEM Class

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1:20 - 2:05 pm

STEM Class

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Flex Work in classroom

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3rd

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12:30 - 1:15 pm

STEM Class

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12:30 - 1:15 pm

STEM Class

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12:30 - 1:15 pm

STEM Class

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12:30 - 1:15 pm

STEM Class

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Flex Work in classroom

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Gifted Service Attendance/Expectations

  • Gifted students make a commitment to Gifted Service. It is expected that students attend their gifted class if they are at school on the day they receive gifted service.

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  • Students are expected to make up work from their regular classes if there is a gap in their learning, new concepts are introduced, or if a test needs to be made up. Long term projects or week long classroom assignments must still be completed and turned in on time.

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  • Gifted Intervention Specialists work closely with classroom teachers to minimize special event/scheduling conflicts.

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  • Should students (and families) choose to opt out of the program, an OFFICIAL Withdrawal Form must be completed and submitted to school. The following academic year students would once again become eligible for service.

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A word about the “growth mindset” and the importance of struggle…

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In the words of a former student…

  • “I love coming to a class where I don’t always know all the answers.”

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Home/School Communication:

Bethel-Tate Gifted STEM Program

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Bring to Class Each Week:

  • 1 inch binder w/ 5 tab dividers
  • Notebook paper/spiral notebook
  • Pencil pouch with school supplies
  • Chromebook (charged)*
  • Water Bottle/Snack/Lunch*
  • Jacket/sweatshirt*

Optional to Donate:

  • Pencils/Crayons/Markers
  • Expo markers
  • Dollar store prizes/candy
  • Clorox wipes
  • Tissues/Paper Towels
  • Ziploc bags - any size

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Under Construction

Hill Intermediate

Bick Primary

BTMS

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Acceptance and permission forms

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Please complete and digitally submit ASAP:

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Bick

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Hill

WEP’s - have all been emailed from SameGoal on 8/23/2024

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Join Us / Renew Membership

Let’s be PALS!

What is PALs? The Parents of Advanced Learners parent teacher organization.

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Quarterly Meetings - hear about upcoming events and what's happening in the classroom

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Fundraisers, activity planning, family challenges

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Teacher/ Classroom support for supplies and materials

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For more information contact:

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parentsofadvancedlearners@gmail.com

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Tentative PALS Meeting Dates 2024-25

  • 10/3/24 Location Middle School 6:30 pm

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  • 12/5/23 Location Hill 6:30 pm

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  • 2/6/25 Location Virtual 6:30 pm

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  • 4/3/25 Location Bick 6:30 pm

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New Gifted Site!

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https://sites.google.com/betheltate.org/bethel-tate-giftedstemprogram/home

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Contact Information…

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Mrs. Kari Mays

(GIS Grades 1-5)

mays_k@betheltate.org

734-2271 ext. 7025

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Ms. Heather Frost

(Gifted Coordinator,

GIS Grades 6-8)

heather.frost@betheltate.org

734-2271 ext. 7143

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Twitter: @frostteaches

Facebook: Bethel-Tate Gifted STEM Program

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QUESTIONS?