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Talented Gifted Program

• Hazelbrook Middle School

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Important Differences

• Elementary Designated TAG Specialist
• Coordinates Program
• Tests Identifies New Students
• Advocates for TAG Students
• Creates and implements enrichment activities

• Middle School TAG Coordinator (Counselor)
• Monitors Files
• Gives Teachers Lists
• Identifies New Students
• Advocates for Students
• TAG Coach (Teacher)
• Helps teachers develop TAG Plans
• Helps teachers develop differentiated
  assignments/projects for TAG students

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Important Differences (continued)

• No Pull-Out enrichment activities for TAG
  students during the school day.
• TAG Program is based on differentiation within
  the classroom.

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What is Differentiation?

• Based on the following beliefs
• Students differ in their learning profiles
• Classrooms in which students are active learners,
  decision makers and problem solvers are more
  natural and effective than those in which
  students are served a "one-size-fits-all"
  curriculum and treated as passive recipients of
  information
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• "Covering information" takes a backseat to making
  meaning out of important ideas.
• The key to a differentiated classroom is that all
  students are regularly offered CHOICES and
  students are matched with tasks compatible with
  their individual learner profiles.

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Curriculum should be differentiated in three
areas

• 1. Content Multiple options for taking in
  information
• 2. Process Multiple options for making sense of
  the ideas
• 3. Product Multiple options for expressing what
  they know

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• Differentiation for the advanced learners
  involves the adjustment of curriculum and
  instruction by using one or more of the following
  four dimensions
• 1. Depth
• 2. Complexity
• 3. Novelty
• 4. Acceleration or Pacing

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Where should you expect to see differentiated
assignments?

• Academically Talented in Math
• Math classes (because we have advanced math
  placement, needs are usually met in this way)
• Academically Talented in Reading
• Language Arts, Social Studies Science
• Intellectually Gifted
• All Core Subjects (Math, Sci, LA, SS)

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Communication

• TAG Plans
• Written Summaries October January
• Fall Conferences
• This is THE time to discuss TAG Plans for the
  year
• TAG Page on HMS Website
• Under Academics
• Important information, resources, etc.
• TAG Parent email list
• For sending home information about opportunities
  throughout the year
• Newsletters
• Look for these to come home from your childs
  teachers

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• If you have a concern about TAG offerings for
  your child, your first point of contact needs to
  be
• Your childs Teachers!

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Amy Haaland, CounselorTAG Coordinator

• Patty Najdek, 8th Grade Teacher
• TAG Coach