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thank you Miss Jew and then miss Lynn I'm also going to make you a co-host I think you earlier okay parents good afternoon my name is mrs. kentrell I'm a first grade teacher here at Delevan drive but I'm also the gifted coordinator for our school and we have two meetings a year where we go over the gate program through LAUSD and also more specifically through Delavan to give parents a note review about how the program works and a chance to ask any questions so I'll go ahead and start my presentation if any questions come up during the presentation please type them in the chat I have miss Lynn who's our testing ordinator helping you moderate and mrs. chew who is our school coordinator she is also moderating as well so I will go ahead and get started we'll be going over the goals of the gifted program will talk about how students are identified and then what categories will talk about different options the district has for gifted learners and also more specifically what we have happening at Delavan for our gate learners the goal of our GATE program in any GATE program in LA nastiest identify gifted and talented students including those from diverse racial socio-economic linguistic and cultural backgrounds we try to screen all students and we'll talk about a little bit and we'll talk about in a little bit how we go about screen all students at our school we want to provide high-quality differentiated opportunities for learning that make students unique abilities and some myths about gifted Learners that you might hear quite often is that it's unfair to give attention to get their learner's they're already excelling why do they need more time but what research says is that fair does not mean the same all students should receive educational opportunities that response their individual needs and learning styles whether that's soon as selling or students who need intervention another Miss gifted students will do well on their own we can just leave them in a corner and they'll succeed and the research says the gifted students may not reach their full potential if they're not given differentiate learning opportunities that meet their you complex learning needs another one is gifted students to try to fit in with mainstream you can read right there it says research says gifted students should not have to sacrifice academic excellence in order to then it is the right of gifted students to stand out in their particular areas of strength there is one more sorry about that that gifted students and special programs will develop Souls develop social emotional problems research says that the reverse of this myth is more often true that social emotional content may occur if students are not provided with emulating learning experiences these are some signs that a gifted learner May exhibit and there's a long list here and I'll let you guys just kind of skimmed through them but these are some things we often see in the classroom early rapid learning and listen on energy and exceptional memory Keene mature sense of humor long attention span when interested in something inappropriate acting out or after you when this interested in something frustrated with illogical or disorganized thinking overwhelming curiosity questions everything and everyone including Authority May lack of desire to socialize with age level peers and prefers the company of adults or older friends so these are kinds of things that teachers are looking for and notice scene when they get to know their new students in their class what gifted students need to deal with feelings of being different to recognize and deal with stress to learn how to be proud without being arrogant to Duvall appropriate problem-solving skills to be challenged with meaningful differentiated learning to have opportunities to interact with others of similar ability or interest to recognize and accept their own abilities interest and limitation and those of others and to be recognized as a gifted child not treated as a small adult categories of identification leusd has more categories than many many other districts in the surrounding area the first one is intellectual ability this can be identified from the second semester kindergarten and above this is identified through a test given by a district psychologist and it's a one-to-one test and it's given depending on whether a teacher has recommended that student for the intellectual ability testing shouldn't food General who is General intellectual development is markedly Advance in relation to their chronological peers again it's given by Nelly USD designated gate psychologist ihe an ability this is something that's given in 5th grade and above and also through the second grade all set 8 test students who consistently function for two consecutive years highly Advanced levels in ela English language arts and math evidence by test scores second graders and may also be identified in high achievement with all set 8 that is the universe Universal screener test and I was mentioning earlier that helps us to identify our gate students more equitably specific abilities 5th grade and above students who consistently function for three consecutive years I'd highly advanced levels and either English language arts or mathematics and upper grades that can be also science and social science categories of identification teacher Visual Arts ability second grade and above students who originated perform produce or respond at exceptionally high levels and drawing and painting and this has to be evidenced by a portfolio or a demonstration and there's a whole nother process. I can walk anybody through if there's a recommendation for your child to be screened and visual arts Performing Arts ability second grade and above dance boys are drama creative ability second grade and above students who characteristically perceives significant similarities or differences within the environment challenge assumptions or produce unique alternative solution I've never done a recommendation for Creative ability so that's something I would have to look into if a teacher or a parent recommends that for a student leadership ability second grade and above students who show confidence and knowledge influence others effectively have problem-solving and decision-making skills express ideas and oral or written form clearly show a sense of purpose and Direction and again evidence by a folio in a presentation so only the high chief men in specific academic categories are determined by Tess cords test scores and grades these are determined by grades and will get automatically picked up by our system and they'll automatically be designated as gifted in the high achievement designation all the other categories require a recommendation and the screening team at our school needs to look the recommendation and maybe have a conversation with that teacher and then that moves on to the portfolio or the presentation that needs to be done referrals for identification if an admin teacher parent or child thinks a student is potentially gifted they may provide the students named to the school site gate screening committee so the name would be given to me and then that list of names would then be taken to the screening committee for more feedback the screen committee is responsible for determining if the child is ready for gate referral and in what category the screen process could include observing the student looking through test report cards portfolios interviewing teachers Etc referrals are created in my sis for students being screened if the screen committee determines that the student is qualified and ready for evaluation and we will initiate the formal identification process and if not they may discontinue screening at that time it can also be followed up again in the next year maybe the students performing better can demonstrate a little bit more so just get discontinued it doesn't prevent it from happening at following year the olsat test is district-wide given to all 2nd graders the olsat 8 identifies high achievement students in the Hyatt she meant category assessment is conducted each spring with the exception of covid 2020 we had to give it some different things to try to catch up all the students that I'd missed it during the closures I will set a date is a nationally standardized achievement test there's no highly gifted designation possible using the whole set cuz it's not an intellectual test I'm highly gifted which will go over in just a moment can only be designated with the the district psychologist test we will have a parent informational meeting in February to discuss the olsat more at length with our second grade parents and scores are usually released by mid May Riley get the designation again can only be out on it's only with the intellectual assessment given by the district cake psychologist and students who receive a percentile ranks of 99.5 to 99 eight on the olsat test so those are the two ways to get the highly gifted designation for students gifted identification is not the final goal of this Pro it has been something we've been concentrating on because we did lose our normal way of identifying students because of covid and the lack of testing the lack of being on campus so I feel like we're finally kind of getting back on track and getting our gifted identifications done but we want identification to just be a tool that allows teachers and schools to make instructional and programming decisions to best meet. American social emotional needs of the students the identification process has little value without the appropriate clustering at schools and differentiated instruction by teachers that follow some options given by the district are cluster model and residence schools that's what we have here at Delevan drive there schools for advanced studies there are gifted magnet look at the magnets the conservatory of Fine Arts is a weekend program that's open to all gifted students and honors and advanced placement once they're in middle and high school Delavan we really value our gifted Learners they really are an integral part of the fabric of our school we like to offer many different opportunities for our students to show are unique abilities and also make them into leaders at our school we have a lot of traditions for Delavan that gives students the opportunity to step into a leadership position and really be an example for the other student differentiated instruction happens in the classroom all teachers who have eight students in their classrooms are required to have specialized training on how to work with their gifted and talented Learners we work really closely after school and it's very easy for me to talk to the teachers about which students they see as potentially just did and referrals happen very quickly and Elven because we are not that large of a school every year the amount of funding determines what kind of programs we can offer in the past we've had things as Science Olympiad robotics enrichment after school classes and every year we have our student leaders that work with Miss Yee in miss you and forgetting the group that she works with so I can you repeat that student take on a big leadership role at our school as you've probably seen with our Monday morning assemblies I'll go through the rest of these pretty quick because I do want to give you time for questions when we talked about differentiation these are the kinds of things were talking about accelerated racing Advanced content depth complexity novelty above grade level resources tiered assignments learning interest centers in the classroom independent study offered by the teachers flexible grouping high-level questioning classroom compacting the curriculum in the students area of strength and these are the things that you should be hearing from your teachers during conferences we do have conference coming up in a couple of weeks and this is an opportunity for you to speak to your child's teacher about what you're gifted learner is doing in the classroom and maybe some possible possible new things that you can have the student start doing in the class especially when it comes to independent study project this is often asked what can parents do to nurture giftedness hear some ideas read daily ask questions taking family two areas of Interest Monitor and limit TV viewing and video game playing and courage activities that require critical thinking and problem solving encourage your child empathy and social responsibility not just Iraq achievement for younger children by play materials that can be used in creative ways such as blocks art supplies recycled materials there's a lot of other suggestions here there's a lot of great books out there for parents one of them what's a parent do California Association for the gifted parent handbook is one that was referenced for this there is a gay parent newsletter that comes out from the disc if you've not looked at the gate website there's a lot of resources on there it's published quarterly and there's a whole parents corner on that website in a dish there are gate parent meetings held every other month and those offer a lot of good information there are a lot of people who are able to answer your questions down at the district if you have more of a district kind of question with gate programs and being what you have to do to qualify for other programs but if you ever need help getting in touch with anybody please let me know and I can point you in the right direction and I'm sure with you who's best to contact when you have any questions Mister shoot I think that concludes my presentation I don't know if we have any questions in a chat or if parents want to do it questions control trolls be made but I answered that for you or made by teachers but if they're at 99% then we also recommend that they would prefer that child as well yes and a lot of the referrals happened identification can happen automatically you know what the olsat test with high achievement grades and with us back grades if a child qualifies under those they'll automatically be placed I'm in designated as a gifted learner and will notify the parents with the letter that let that lets them know that their child has been identified and then here at our school we are obligated to do is to put those students into a cluster also that they have anywhere from three to five of their like ability peers to work with in the classroom can you provide an update in the IB process would you like me to take Berlin Friday we're in the process of actually running it to the full year and its highs and really well with you stood identification because a lot of it is increase bass and we allow students to freedom to create project did not increase I think a lot of the kids I'm really interested in and then research it at a be able to prevent it if she was as well so I be process is fully i b stands for international baccalaureate that is what we are striving to be authorized as by October of next year so it's just six units chance disciplinary themes that'll probably be a different meeting that you were with me so you can email me with questions about that later if you have more questions yeah and you're right with the shoe it really does tie in with that kind of been and then study or you know kids going after what their interests are with passion projects and you know there's a lot of very common ideas and vocabulary using both any other questions parents I appreciate you hopping on I know that ask questions come up you are more than welcome to reach out to me I have spoken message with several if you so you know either I or mrs. chew or miss Lynn we are here to answer all of your questions and I would definitely recommend that with parent conferences coming up that you have these conversations with your child's teacher about your child being identified as gifted and what that means in their classroom I see Catherine stand up Catherine do you have question I do thank you I'm driving I'm just barely thing once they're identified as gifted they are going to be categorized as gifted throughout their entire career with LA unified all the way through through 12th grade okay thank you not a problem there is it is possible for students to get multiple identification so as student for example can be identified under intellectual ability when they get tested by a gate in leusd psychologist and then they can also qualify for high achievement resignation once their scores come in her grades come in so we do have several kids with multiple multiple identifications and that is possible and it stays with them all the way through 12th grade Mister Meyer on next steps with parents I would say definitely take advantage of parent conferences coming up I know a lot of you have just recently been notified that your child was identified as gifted and so definitely talk to child teachers they are also being made aware of the new students that we just got a whole new list of students who have been identified because of test scores so I would say that is definitely the first step is to talk to your child's teacher second step is go on to the LAUSD gate website and get familiar with that and there's a whole parent corner and get familiar with all of those things you can see what information is on and lastly any questions at all through the process you are more than welcome to reach out to me Miss control on a question on the line but could you also remind him that we can only test for the psychologist once that's why we usually wait yes thank you mrs. true that is something that we always want to let parents know I know a lot of parents are eager to get their child tested and get that intellectual designation but we have been what we've seen is that a lot of these students are getting tested very young and not qualifying for that intellectual ability designation and once that test is given it even if it's in first grade second grade it's that's the only time that the test that's that's it's a one chance kind of test so we try to consult with the parents and let them know that if possible maybe to wait until the child matures a little bit there are students we've had will have passed without a problem but if your child is maybe a little shy or a little Maybe awkward around strangers it is given by someone that they've never met before until that could impact how well they perform I usually recommend parents to wait until after second grade cuz they are all being screened with that olsat test in second grade anyway so have your child take that olsat test that every second grader takes and if they get designated that way fantastic and if not then kind of electrical testing as a backup or wait until they're a little bit older if you think that their age may be a hindrance in that it says how can I child get tested so there's money cast for talking about one the first test is the olsat test that is a screener that's given to every single second grader at our school in the spring and so all students decide grade are testing using not olsat test the other and the other tests that were talking about is one that is given by a district psychologist and that one will only be given to a child if it is if they've been recommended by their teacher to take that intellectual ability test and that happens throughout the school year and it's the one that says she was talking about that they can only take once during their school career to get that intellectual ability resignation and also that is another way that a child can be designated as highly gifted if they score in the 99th percentile of the LAUSD test administered by the last psychologist so those are the two tests that are given aside from that of course there are aspects scores can give them the high achievement designation and also they can get high achievement or high ability through their report card grades so there's many different path to being identified as a gifted learner anything else we need to mention this is true or any other you see I don't see any more questions in the offering the enrichment Club this year again that is a I think a budgetary question isn't it yes we'll have to talk to you on that and so whatever budget or volunteers come to our disposal we try to make the most definitely we we enjoyed our enrichment class last year miss Lynn and I caught it and had a great time with our high-achieving students and so we are hoping to be able to do it again this year but we haven't been given the exact green light yet will parents thank you so much for attending again I purposely wanted to hold this meeting right before parent conferences so you kind of know what things you may want to talk to your child's teacher about options what kind of differentiation you could expect to see and if you again if you have any other questions please feel free to reach out to me to message you fortunate Lynn if you have any questions about testing you know what like I said before are our high cheating students in our gifted students are a really important part of our school we try to give them as many opportunities as possible to show they their abilities and to show their giftedness and have them shine so thank you again for attending and please reach out if you have any questions screenshot going to stop recording

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