City of Salem Schools

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City of Salem Schools

• Children Come First in Salem!

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Gifted Program Overview

• Gifted support service to

Staff Coordinators meet with approximately five
to seven teachers a week to assist them with
planning differentiation opportunities,
conferencing about individual students needs,
developing curriculum, etc

Students Salem has two gifted program
coordinators for 338 students. The students
participate in an array of differentiated
opportunities in their own classrooms, as well as
attend workshops in their areas of interest.
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Gifted Program Overview Cont.

• Gifted support service to
• Parents Coordinators send home differentiation
  opportunity logs which describe differentiation
  opportunities students have in the classroom. In
  addition, coordinators meet with parents as
  needed to discuss their childrens particular
  needs.
• Community Various community members volunteer
  in programs such as our Shadow Program in which
  community members invite students, who have
  indicated an interest in their particular field,
  into their work place to explore potential career
  opportunities.

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Elementary

• Support for teachers
• Resource materials
• Ideas of how to use differentiation strategies in
  the classroom
• Team teaching
• In-service opportunities

• Support for Parents
• Meeting with parents as needed to discuss their
  childrens individual needs
• Workshops for students
• In-school and after-school

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Middle School

• Tutorials
• Gifted Programs Coordinators go to 6th and 7th
  grade tutorials at least once a week to do whole
  group and small group projects.
• Support for teachers
• Resource materials
• Ideas of how to use differentiation strategies
• In-service opportunities
• Co-teaching
• Support for Parents
• Meeting with parents as needed to discuss their
  childrens individual needs
• Workshops for Students
• Before-school
• After-school

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High School

• Support for students
• Individual assistance
• schedules
• applications
• college planning
• Shadow Program
• Workshops
• Governors School

• Support for teachers
• Assist in planning
• Working with small groups
• Co-teaching
• Resource materials and ideas

• Support for parents
• Meet with parents as needed to discuss individual
  needs
• College Planning

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Highlights of the Year

• Artice Ledbetter, a parent of two sons in the
  City of Salem Schools Gifted program has been
  selected as Virginia Parent of the Year for the
  Gifted. Artice is serving on our local advisory
  board, the VAG board, and is working on several
  projects including the Shadow Program.

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Highlights of the Year

• Gifted Education Article
• Amanda Gibson and Dr. Darryl Helems co-authored
  an article on Multiple Intelligences and gifted
  learners. The article was published in the
  Virginia Journal of Education.
• http//www.veaweteach.org/articles_vje_detail.asp?
  ContentID2083

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Highlights of the Year

• We are piloting the Renzulli Learning System, a
  web based teaching tool for our identified gifted
  seventh grade students. It enables teachers to
  gain a comprehensive profile of each students
  interests and learning style in just one class
  period. After answering questions the system
  searches the Renzulli Differentiation Database
  for learning and enrichment activities that match
  the students profiles. The database is a
  collection of more than 10,000 pre-screened,
  safety-tested, and constantly updated web-based
  enrichment activities. The students, their
  parents, and teachers are able to access this
  unique learning system both at school and at
  home.

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Highlights of the Year

• Our Elementary students attended a field trip to
  the Science Museum of Western Virginia and
  Studios on the Square Art Gallery during the
  Parent Teacher Conference Day in November. Due
  to its huge success, we are planning future field
  trips for our students to be held on our parent
  teacher conference days, early release days, and
  during the pre-service week in August.

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DestiNation ImagiNation

• Our very own ALMS DestiNation ImagiNation Team,
  the ALMS DInamites, will travel to the
  University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee
  to compete in the DestiNation ImagiNation Global
  tournament.
• Team Manger, Rachel Sailor, will cheer on her
  team consisting of Clay Bradshaw, Sarah Collie,
  Alison Giles, Breanna Kawa, Phillip Rodgers, Jake
  Sailor, and Jenna Whisler.
• These students have worked diligently on
  creative problem solving, drama, set design, and
  team work to be able to compete at the highest
  level of competition in the arena of DestiNation
  ImagiNation.

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DestiNation ImagiNation Volunteer Opportunities

• Team Managers
• Team Helpers
• Tournament Volunteers
• Appraisers

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Future Plans

• Photography workshop
• Film script workshop series
• Podcasting series
• Artist exploration series
• Foreign language workshops
• Jamestown celebration activities
• Russian pen pals
• Teacher workshop series focusing on G/T topics

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Outcomes fromParent Meetings

• Foreign Language Workshops

• Creative Writing Clubs

• Communication

Workshop notification

• Academic

College Planning
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Website
http//www.salem.k12.va.us
Gifted and Talented