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Talent Development Department
Welcome! Please sign-in. There is a sign-in sheet for
each grade level.
6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade
Questions? In lieu of time, please use the index cards provided. Along with your question: include your name, child’s name, grade level, and your contact information.
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Middle School Talent Development Program
Annual Parent Meeting
September 12th, 2013Carmel Middle School
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AIG Mission
To provide appropriate
intellectual opportunities that
help academically gifted students realize their potential and connect them to their complex world.
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AIG Vision
For students from all cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds who are academically gifted to have a rigorous and relevant educational experience.
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What CMS will do to obtain this vision: Use multiple criteria to identify students. Provide CMS educators with comprehensive
training in best practices. Support a continuum of differentiated instructional
opportunities that relates to and expands the Common Core State Standards.
Match students with services that provide instruction geared for significant academic growth while encouraging other strengths and talents.
Support families in their efforts to support these students.
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Understand their unique social and emotional needs.
Strive for self-actualization. Foster creative, critical, and innovative thinking. Practice self-directed learning and independent
problem solving. Engage in collaborative experiences. Develop a capacity to see interconnections among
disciplines. Apply life skills for leadership, accountability,
adaptability, productivity, and social responsibility.
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Everyone works collaboratively to meet the needs of gifted learners.
Classroom Teachers
Content Specialists
Academic Facilitator
Parents
Middle School
Program
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Standard Plus
For students who need to be challenged with enriched grade level curriculum and work beyond their grade level.
Standard Plus courses are offered in Language Arts and Mathematics.
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Honors Courses
For students who need to be advanced in their learning, which will require curriculum beyond grade level.
Honors courses are offered in Language Arts and Mathematics.
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Placement in Honors Classes:
Students are placed in the course based on:
Their EOG Math & Reading Scores Grades & Prior Course Enrollment Academic Performance Teacher Input
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Desired Outcomes
Curriculum studied in greater depth through the rigor of lessons and differentiated activities.
Curriculum accelerated to include above-grade level material when appropriate.
Advanced pace of learning (some VHS classes offered).
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What is differentiation?
“A differentiated learning experience occurs when educators modify the regular curriculum setting and select instructional practices that reflect students’ readiness for learning. This ‘readiness’ includes ability levels, achievement levels, interests, and learning preferences.”
~ Mary Landrum~
Educational Consultant
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Practices & Strategies
Divergent Questioning & Rigor Socratic Seminars Text Complexity Research Skills & Investigations Arts infusion Multiple Intelligences Reflective assessment/Product assessment Performance-based assessment
How is middle school TD different from elementary school TD?
Carmel uses cluster groups to serve our TD students in the classrooms. We do not use a “pull out” model; instead students are served in their classrooms through differentiated instruction. Students are provided learning experiences and assessments that are conceptually advanced, challenging and complex. Lessons involve critical thinking, creative problems solving and inquiry based assessment. Teachers will use pre and post assessments to determine students’ strengths and weaknesses as well as ensure that students have mastered concepts taught.
Our Goal: to provide appropriately challenging, stimulating experiences throughout the school day.
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How will Carmel Middle School communicate with the parents of our TD students?
Each quarter we publish a newsletter to parents of TD students. The newsletter can be found on Carmel’s web page under Academic Enrichment.
At the end of the year a Performance Review will be sent home with every TD student along with their CMS report card.
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CarmelMiddle SchoolWebpage
Academic Enrichment
http://schools.cms.k12.nc.us/carmelMS/Pages
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Special Programs at Carmel National Academic
League (NAL) Drama Club Jazz Band Battle of the Books Science Olympiad Math Counts National Junior Honor
Society (NJHS) - 8th grade
Shakespeare Recitation Contest
Student Council Geography Bee Spelling Bee Future Business Leaders of
America (FBLA) Writing & Poetry Contests Odyssey of the Mind (OM) Chess Club Duke Talent Identification
Program (TIP)
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What do gifted services look like?
MathLanguage ArtsScience Social Studies
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Middle School Math Overall Goal
To prepare students for higher level math courses at the high school level such as Advanced Placement (AP classes) and International Baccalaureate (IB Program).
Math
Math I (Algebra) is offered in 7th and 8th grade this year
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Math
Math II (Geometry) will be offered in 8th grade next year
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Language Arts
Concept Driven Connections
Critical StanceInterpretationInquiry Based
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Language Arts
SpringBoardCollege Board’s official Pre-AP
program“Back-Mapping” instructional
designThematically designed units
SpringBoard Themes
6th Grade – Change7th Grade – Choice8th Grade - Challenge
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Overall Goal
To build higher level literacy strategies that will build success in all subject areas.
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You might see…
Cooperative Learning Investigations Inquiry & Questioning Socratic Seminars Visual representations of
ideas Interdisciplinary work Performance Based Tasks
Mini-ProjectsAuthentic TasksApplication of
knowledge in new settings
Literature CirclesThinking Maps
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DUKE T. I. P. Mr. Canupp– 7th grade Counselor
Criteria to participate: Scored at or above the 95th percentile on an accepted subtest
(Based on 5th grade scores)
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Tonight:
Teachers will be giving specifics about their curriculum and their instructional practices
Please remember that tonight is NOT a time for parent conferences. If you have concerns about your child, please e-mail the teacher and/or the Academic Facilitator. If the question is on differentiation within the class, please see the teacher first.
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T.D. Contact Information
Peggy Fadero
Carmel Middle School
Academic Facilitator
Phone: 980.343.6705 ext. 239
Email: [email protected]
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Carmel Middle School
Marc Angerer
Principal Melanie Francis
Assistant Principal Leanne Conyers
Assistant Principal Patrick Dean
Dean of Students