Bright IDEA: Interest Development Early Abilities

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Bright IDEA Interest Development Early Abilities
K-2
Nurturing Program
Classroom Management
Intellectual Diversity and Leadership
Pathways
Transforming Education for the
21st Century Learner
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Bright IDEA II Interest Development Early
Abilities
Transforming Education for the 21st Century
Learner
By Frank Beck, Advanced Learner
Coordinator Guilford County Schools, Greensboro,
North Carolina Special Effects by Beverly
DePrez, Teacher, Allen Jay Elementary School,
Greensboro, N.C. A Javits Education Program
Funded by the US Department of Education
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Follow the Bright IDEA Path
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Bright IDEA Goals

• To increase the number of gifted students from
  underserved populations via changing teachers
  dispositions and capacity to wisely choose
  curricula tailored to teaching those students.

• To study the extent to which such activities
  increase the number of third graders from
  underrepresented populations who enroll in gifted
  and talented programs.

• To advance the quality of these students
  meta-cognitive and cognitive skills.

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Conceptually Designed Instructional Delivery Model

• Standards
• 21st Century Taxonomies
• Interest Development
• Metacognition
• Concepts, Generalizations
• Essential Questions
• Intelligent Behaviors

• Curriculum Tailoring
• New Thinking Models
• Vocabulary Development
• Learning Styles
• Multiple Intelligences
• Decision Making
• Problem Seeking/Solving

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21st Century Learner

• Diverse Populations
• Concept of Changing Intelligence
• Developmental Journey
• Global Learner
• Knowledge Creators
• Technology Savvy

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Learning Environment

• Child Centered
• Emotionally Safe, Risk-Taking
• Teacher as Facilitator
• Culturally Responsible Teaching
• Multicultural Literature
• Inquiry Based
• Center-Based Learning

• Discussions
• Interactive Materials
• Meaningful Bulletin Boards
• Technology
• Parent/School/
• Community
• Interactive World

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Know thyself. Socrates
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Optimistic Voices

• Youre out of the woods
• Youre out of the dark
• Youre out of the night
• Step into the sun
• Step into the light
• March up to the gate
• And bid it open open!

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Transformational Model Pathways to Intellectual
Diversity and Leadership

• Conceptually-Designed Instructional Delivery
  Model
• 21st Century Learner
• Learning Environment

Creating New Understandings of Knowledge
Developing Talents and Wisdom
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LION

• Id be brave as a blizzard
• Acting courageously, even when you are
• scared, as represented by
• the Lion, corresponds to
• Bright IDEAs courageousness
• to know what needs to be done
• and then taking the necessary
• path to help make dreams realities.

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TIN MAN

• Id be gentile as a lizard
• Caring, as represented by the Tin Man,
• corresponds to Bright IDEAs
• caring and nurturing of the
• entire community, proving
• that groups of diverse cultures
• can respect one another, work
• together and achieve common goals.

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SCARECROW

• Id be clever as a gizzard
• Being open to continuous learning,
• As represented by the Scarecrow,
• corresponds to Bright IDEAs
• rigorous concept-based integrated
• units and a research-based building
• thinking skills program infused with
• Intelligent Behaviors.

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DOROTHY

• If the Wizard is a Wizard who will serve
• Thinking about thinking, as
• represented by Dorothy,
• corresponds to Bright IDEAs
• goal to empower individuals to
• understand that strength and
• resolve come from within and
• that each of us has
• the power to solve all problems.

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Putting the Pieces Together
Blooms Revised Taxonomy
Multiple Intelligences
Manipulatives
Multicultural Literature
Task Rotations
Bright IDEA
Gifted Intelligent Behaviors
Building Thinking Skills
Generalizations
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Gifted Intelligent Behaviors
Showing Thinking about your thinking!
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Multiple Intelligences
Logical Mathematical
Bodily Kinesthetic
Visual Spatial
Nature Smart
Verbal Linguistic
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Generalizations
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Multi-cultural Literature
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Building Thinking Skills
Manipulatives
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Task Rotations
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The nerve!
A brain!
A home!
A heart!