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Using AAP Curriculum and Strategies to Develop 21st
Century LearnersAdvanced Academic Programs
Instructional Services Department
Fairfax County Public Schools
What educators and psychologists recognize as
giftedness in children is really potential
giftedness, which denotes promise rather than
fulfillment and probabilities rather than
certainties about future accomplishments.
How high these probabilities are in any given case
depends much on the match between a child's budding talents and the kinds of
nurturance provided.
-Dr. Harry Passow, expert in gifted education
Intelligence is not how much you now or how fast you learn but
how you behave when you don’t know the answer.
So . . . if we want to
develop children who
think critically, we
must present
curricular problems,
challenges,
discrepancies or
dilemmas for which
the answers are not
easily accessible.
Hallmarks of Gifted
Education
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Problem Solving
Collaborative Skills
Current Focus on 21st Century Skills
The pedagogy and teaching practices that
were once reserved for the gifted are
now recognized as
important skills for
all students.
How the Program of Studies (POS) is Differentiated through the Advanced Academic Programs (AAP) Curriculum
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CONCEPT-BASED
INSTRUCTION
Language arts
Social Studies
Science
Math
Systems
Change
Conflict
Interdependence
Supports content integration
Assess the Concept of Systems
Pre-test
What do you know about systems?I’m not 100% sure, but I think a system is when one thing leads to another thing.
What are some examples of systems?TV because when you broadcast a news show, it gets recorded into the TV.
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Harley Young ScholarGrade Three
Student Post-Assessment AnswersWhat do you know about systems?
Every system has input, output, elements, and boundaries. Families are systems because they give money to the world and take in things like food and clothes from the outside. The elements are the people who live in the family and the boundaries depend on where their jobs are.
What are some examples of systems?A system could be all sorts of things. It could be a food drive.
That would be a system that gives food to people that can’t get food. There are many systems in the world. Some are still being tested or invented.
Harley (three weeks later)
Concepts Create a Mosaic of Learning
Parallel Curriculum ModelEndorsed by the National Association for Gifted Children
Ascending Levels of Intellectual Demand15
Novice
ApprenticePractitioner
Expert
Growth Toward Expertise
The Parallel Curriculum Model
2009 Corwin Press
Advanced reading and resources
process
Instructional strategies
In the Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, is the poet
ambivalent, self-assured, regretful,
or adventuresome?
Mayflower Compact
Why did they choose a civil government when they were
seeking religious freedom?
Dear Ms. Henry,
When you were teaching Ruby, you were changing the whole world. You showed
people that it is what’s inside that counts…what matters is your personality and
your character….
Dear Miss Ruby Bridges,
You were very brave to walk through an angry mob with your head up high every day.
It must have been scary walking through an angry crowd of people…you have
inspired me to be brave and confident…Who cares if your skin color is different?
The hearts are the same…
Dear Diary,
Today was my second day of school. Every day the crowd gets worse! The marshals
follow me everywhere I go. Well they’re nice and they protect me from the crowd
…Every day I stop and I start to pray for the people to treat black as white…
written by 4th grade general education students following a Socratic Seminar on Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
JASON Project
Hands on labs
Connections to scientists working on
current scientific problems
Integrated technology
Paul’s Reasoning Model
Who are the
Stakeholders?
What is their
point of view?
What are
assumptions
of each
group?
What are the
implications of
these views?
What is the Situation?
Who are the
Stakeholders?
What is their
point of view?
What are
assumptions
of each
group?
What are the
implications of
these views?
Colonies Declare Independence from England
Problem-Based Learning in Science
Investigating Primary Source
Documents
Mini Q’s in American History Examples
Early Jamestown: Why Did So
Many Colonists Die?
Valley Forge: Would You Have Quit?
How Did the Constitution
Guard Against Tyranny?
Mini Q’s in World History examples
Hammurabi's Code: Was It
Just?
How Did the Nile River Shape
Ancient Egypt?
The Great Wall of Ancient China:
Did the Benefits Outweigh the
Costs?
Early Jamestown: Why Did So Many Colonists Die?
1. Hook – Analyzing the placement of English settlements and forts 1607-1611
2. Background information including vocabulary work
3. Understanding the question and pre-bucketing
4. Students examine primary source documents (documentation from archeological center, rainfall graphs, supply lists
from shipping records, chronology of mortality 1607-1610) in order to gain supporting evidence for bucketing.
5. Students write persuasive essays using “buckets” with supporting evidence from the primary source documents.
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Jamestown DBQ example (Intro Paragraph from General Education Student)
Jamestown was the first English settlement in Virginia: Why did so many colonists die? In 1607 -1612 in the Chesapeake Bay ships with lots of settlers were coming with not enough resources. There were three main problems why so many colonists died. The problems were: lack of settler’s skills, environmental problems, and relationship with the Indians. It was a hard and bad beginning for the English settlers. 400 out of 500 settlers died in the first few years.
Early Jamestown: Why Did So Many Colonists Die?
Jamestown DBQ example (Intro Paragraph from student in Level IV classroom)
Imagine coming to a land with brackish water, a limited amount of food, and Native Indians right next door. During the first five years of settlement, these are the hardships that the Colonists of early Jamestown had to deal with. During 1607-1611, countless colonists died because of the poor environmental conditions, lack of settler skills, and bad relationships with the Indians. Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America. English investors hoping to make money funded the project. Many of the Colonists going on the trip were poor people who were trying to start a new life in a new country. Also, women were initially not allowed to go to Jamestown in the early years because it would distract the men from their important work.
Early Jamestown: Why Did So Many Colonists Die?
Year 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
Number of
Students4,290 5,506 6,512 7,654 8,220 8,979 11,270
Percentage of 3-8 students in
centers6.7% 8.5% 10.4% 12.7% 13.7% 15% 18%
Number of
Centers
16 ES centers10 MS centers
17 ES centers10 MS centers
23 ES centers10 MS centers
23 ES centers10 MScenters
23 ES centers11 MS centers
24 ES centers11 MS centers
24 ES centers11 MS centers
Number of Local
Level IV centers1 9 20 32 34
New centers
opened
New center
Sangster
New centers
1. Clearview
2. Colvin
Run
3. Lorton
Station
4. Mosby
Woods
5. Oak Hill
6. Riverside
New center
Jackson MS
New center
McNair
Student Placement Decisions2007-2012
All that is valuable
in human society
depends upon the
opportunity for
development
accorded the
individual.
-Albert Einstein
