Instruments and Procedures

Choose your activity.

Face-to-Face Activity Interactive Activity

Work with your Table Group:

Use one of the items on the table to create one metaphor.

A Gifted Learner is like (my object) because_________________.

You have 2 minutes to complete your task.

What are the frustrations gifted children encounter when their answers don’t appear or they see more than one right answer?

What are your thoughts about the use of standardized assessments to identify students for gifted services?

Choose your activity.

Face-to-Face Activity Interactive Activity

Are assessments…

Fun? Intimidating? Fair?

You be the judge!

At your table discuss the following questions and write down the answers.

At the end of the quiz we will discuss the answers.

How are a submarine and a fish different?

Discuss at your table how they are different.

A gifted child said:

A submarine has lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise, but a fish only has tartar sauce.

Guiding the Gifted Child: James T. Webb, Elizabeth A Meckstroth, and Stephanie S. Tolan, 1994

Gifted children often think differently from other children their age.

Creative thinking may generate misunderstandings or problems for the gifted child.

Here are a few more questions.

After each question discuss what the answer is and the answers will be given at the end of the quiz.

Her tooth came out so she put it:

a. On top of the refrigeratorb. Under the treec. Under her pillowd. None of the above

The 3 colors of a traffic light are:

a. red, yellow, blueb. red, yellow, greenc. red, black, greend. red, white, blue

Christmas is celebrated in the month of:

a. Januaryb. Junec. Julyd. December

New Year’s is celebrated in the month of:

a. Januaryb. Februaryc. Marchd. April

How long is a football field?

a. 100 inchesb. 100 feetc. 100 yardsd. 100 miles

Which word best completes this poem?

One is a goose and two are geese, but one mouse and one mouse is not meese! So you can have a mouse or many mice, but one house plus one house is not two _____.

a. heeseb. hicec. housesd. homes

1. Tae Sung-South Korea

In South Korea, a child throws his/her tooth up on the roof so that the next one will grow in straight. None of the answers said that. Tae Sung knew the first answer meant “up” so she marked that answer.

Cultural Bias

2. Lance from SamoaSince there are no traffic lights in Samoa, Lance did not know the answer. He whispered to his Samoan friend Tafiafa, “What are traffic lights?” She whispered back, “They are the things on top of a pole.” Lance thought about poles and imagined a flag pole. “Oh,” he thought, “the American flag is red, white and blue.”

Cultural Bias

3. Sunny from China

Sunny struggled with the question because Christmas is not celebrated in China. He had no idea and marked July.

Cultural Bias

4. Gabriel from Hong Kong

The answer is February. New Year’s is celebrated for one week in Hong Kong. His older brother was in the dragon dance. It was very exciting.

Cultural Bias

5. Karnya from Laos

Karnya was very excited when he read the question, but his heart sank when he looked at the answers. In his country football meant soccer, he didn’t know inches, feet and yards. He picked miles because it began with “m” like meters.

Cultural Bias

6. Tolchiro from Japan

Tolchiro loved writing haiku, a 3 line poem of 17 syllables. He had won a contest for his haiku. He spent a lot of time counting the syllables. He gave up and picked heese because it rhymed with meese.

Cultural Bias

To earn your chair back…

Table group members share an idea with each other relating to the use of standardized assessments and gifted students.

1. In what ways does Lohman consider Illinois to be ahead of other states?

2. Why does Lohman prefer the term talented over the term gifted?

3. Do you agree with Lohman’s belief that aptitude is a broader term than ability?

4. What significance does Binet’s original insight on how long it takes a child to learn a task have to do with gifted students? 

Let’s share our thoughts on the video.

Work with your table group to make sentences from the 2 color matching cards.

Check your work using the handout.

Take a post-it note.

Note down any questions you still have.

Let’s watch the video.

Review your post-it notes.

Discard any questions that were answered.

?

Are there any remaining questions?

Count off 1-4.Move to new tables.

1s - Read about Understanding Key Issues pages 137-140.

2s - Read about Selection of Assessments pages 140-142.

3s - Read about Establishing Procedures

pages 142-147.4s - Read about Detecting and Avoiding Bias

pages 147-148.

Return to your home table.

Share your key points in order.

Question 3: If you were the Director of Advanced Academics in a school district and discovered that there was an underrepresentation of students from lower socioeconomic groups in the gifted program, what would you do? Why?

Question 5: Do you think it is acceptable for school districts to establish identification standards for different groups of students? Why or why not?

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) created guidelines to assist school districts in providing equal access to gifted programs.

Using the handout place the steps in sequential order. 1.

2. 3.

1.2. 3.

Has established an assessment timeline for new and transfer students for a gifted program.

Has ensured equal opportunity of access to all students to a gifted program.

Has established an exit criteria from a gifted program.

Has establish due process and appeals procedures for a gifted program.

Review Table 9-4 on page 148 of the Karnes text.

Check the items on the chart that show what tour school/district is currently doing.

Choose one of the 5 areas to discuss with participants from your school/ district.

If you do not have another school/district member present join another group.

You will be selecting 3 students to enter a Gifted Program.

Determine the type of Gifted Program the students will enter.

School for the GiftedFull Day Pull-OutCluster Grouping with Full Day Pull-OutPush-In, Co-Planning and Teaching with Gifted

Teacher

Your team will select 3 students.Be ready to justify your selections.

Select a spokesperson for your group.

You have 25 minutes to make your selections.

Mary Hall:  Eleanor RooseveltSam Edder:   Albert EinsteinWilliam Horn:  Bill BradleyWilliam Gunther:  Will RogersAlbert Wright:  Abraham Lincoln

Bill Ridell:  Thomas EdisonElaine Hawkins:  Isadora DuncanLloyd Krebbs:  "Joe Average"Pearl Ruth Jackson:  Barbara JordanMike Grost: Youngest student to enter

Michigan State University

Take a minute to think about what you’ve learned.

If you were in charge of the world:What procedures and instruments would you use to identify gifted learners?

Write about it!

Testing in our state is a must.But it is equally important for

us to remember…“Giftedness isn’t what you

do, it is who you are.”

-Anna Marie Roeper