2013-2014+Networking+Meetings


 * Teacher Effectiveness **

Instructionally Certified Personnel with Unique Roles and Functions serve in many different capacities across the Commonwealth given their varied roles, function and contexts. Below a committee of educators worked to develop general and specific examples as an optional and potentially useful supplement to the existing and already validated Danielson Rubric for use with instructionally certified personnel.

Please note that this is an example only and is not meant to represent the full range of training, experience or unique roles and functions that a given educator may provide. Discussion of this example may help the evaluator and person being evaluated facilitate meaningful conversation and were not developed to be used as evidence or lack thereof within practice and the evaluation process.

Teaching Professionals with Unique Roles and Functions serve in many different capacities across the Commonwealth given their varied roles, function and contexts. As shown, committees of educators worked to develop general and specific examples as an optional and potentially useful supplement to the existing and already validated Danielson Rubric for use with instructionally certified personnel.

Please note that these are examples only and are not meant to represent the full range of training, experience or unique roles and functions that a given educator may provide. Discussion of examples may help the evaluator and person being evaluated facilitate meaningful conversation and were not developed to be used as evidence or lack thereof within practice and the evaluation process.
 * Examples for Gifted Education Teachers **
 * Paula Bevan Rubric - Website **

Compare Non- Teaching Professionals/ Specialists Evaluation Pilot: Draft evaluation rubrics for professionals under Act 82. This is a link to PDE. = = =**Making Gifted Education Work: A Leadership Summit **= =**August 21, 2013 **=
 * Educational Specialists Rubric **
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 * Just a few of the summit attendees **


 * Breakout Session 2B: Raising the Bar: The Common Core and Gifted Education **

= ___ = =10.14.2013 Regional In-Service Day =

Dr. Gae Anderson-Miller
== This humorous hands-on session will allow teachers of the gifted to evaluate their own creativity using the most widely used creativity evaluation in the world, followed by some specific revitalization strategies designed to relax and revive their own creative juices. Come and learn about your creative abilities, the barriers that can keep your creative energy locked away and how to keep your own creative spirit alive during these upcoming stressful days. Then explore how you can use those creative strategies, utilize some of the newer trends in gifted education and feel empowered with new activities and strategies to use with your gifted students. ==



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 * 29 Ways To Stay Creative **


 * PAGE Affiliate Planning Documents **








 * News not added to the agenda **

==**Writing Effective GIEPs, Part 1 (1 CPE credit, 2 Weeks)**==




 * C-MITES Programs **


 * Academic Games **


 * Working with Parents - Michele Kulesza **





December 18, 2013


 * Joint Session with Secondary Literacy Council **
 * Teaching with Primary Sources **


 * @http://tpscalu.pbworks.com **

February 4, 2014



House Bill 139 Report

The Status of Special Education for Gifted Students in the Commonwealth






 * The Framework for Teaching Evaluation Instrument 2011 Edition by Charlotte Danielson **


 * Framework for Teaching: Examples for Gifted Educators **

C-MITES

Additional Resources **

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This 165 page .pdf is titled, "Closing America's High Achievement Gap" by Andy Smarick


 * April 22, 2014 **
 * April 22, 2014 **


 * Agenda **
 * Meeting Resources **

What is a Gifted Student?
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= Big Bang Theory: "Because We Can" =


 * Additional Resources **




 * All Things Google **


 * SCAMPER - **

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SCAMPER is an acronym for useful list of words that can be applied as stimuli to make you think differently about the problem area.

__Substitute__
What can you substitute? What can be used instead? Who else instead? What other ingredients? Other material? Other process? Other power? Other place? Other approach? Other sounds? Other forces? Instead of ... I can ...

__Combine__
What can you combine or bring together somehow? How about a blend, an alloy, an assortment, an ensemble? Combine units? Combine purposes? Combine appeals? Combine ideas? I can bring together ... and ... to ...

__Adapt__
What can you adapt for use as a solution? What else is like this? What other idea does this suggest? Does past offer a parallel? What could I copy? Who could I emulate? I can adapt ... in this way ... to ...

__Modify__
Can you change the item in some way? Change meaning, colour, motion, sound, smell, form, shape? Other changes? Also: Magnify: What can you add? More time? Greater frequency? Stronger? Higher? Longer? Thicker? Extra value? Plus ingredient? Duplicate? Multiply? Exaggerate? And: 'Minify': What can you remove? Smaller? Condensed? Miniature? Lower? Shorter? Lighter? Omit? Streamline? Split up? Understate? I can change ... in this way ... to ...

__Put to other uses__
How can you put the thing to different or other uses? New ways to use as is? Other uses if it is modified? I can re-use ... in this way ... by ...

__Eliminate__
What can you eliminate? Remove something? Eliminate waste? Reduce time? Reduce effort? Cut costs? I can eliminate ... by ...

__Rearrange//__
What can be rearranged in some way? Interchange components? Other pattern? Other layout? Other sequence? Transpose cause and effect? Change pace? Change schedule? I can rearrange ... like this ... such that ...