Bettendorf ELP Extended Learning Program

1. Bettendorf ELPExtended Learning Program • November 15, 2010

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3. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. • William Butler Yeats

4. Creative Thinking • There are six eggs in the basket. • Six people each take one of the eggs • How can it be that one egg is left in the basket?

5. Where have we been the last two years?

6. Services

7. Services • K-2 - differentiation in the classroom • 3rd Grade - direct services provided by teacher librarians

8. Identification

10. Screening Pool • Identifies top 15% of student population • To qualify students need 93rd percentile in one of the following: • ITBS Core Total • *ITBS scores based on Iowa Norms • CogAT Composite

12. Elementary Screening for top 3-5% • Multiple Selection Criteria • 90th percentile in the following • CogAT - verbal, quantitative, nonverbal • ITBS - Reading Total and Math Total • Open Ended Student Response • Writing Samples • Creativity Test • Rating Scale - ability, creativity, task commitment • Classroom teacher, teacher librarian, and art teacher

13. BMS Screening for top 3-5% • Multiple Selection Criteria • 90th percentile in the following • CogAT - verbal, quantitative, nonverbal • ITBS - Reading Total and Vocabulary Total • Open Ended Student Response • Writing Samples • Rating Scale - ability, creativity, task commitment, need for services • Classroom achievement

14. High School • Selection • Previous BMS ELP students • Other considerations • Scheduling • Two sections of classes • Four classes per quarter • Additional times for grade specific focuses

16. Where are we now?

17. Currently we are... • Revising lessons • Constantly working to improve the program • Vertical Articulation • Pushing the envelope • Finding what works best

18. Extensions • Students in screening pool • Services provided when appropriate • No guarantee for all extensions • Services tied to curriculum • Teacher recommendations with academic proof • Communication • Challenge their strengths • Elementary Extensions • BMS Extensions

19. ELP

20. Delivery System for Curriculum

21. Problem Solving Creative Thinking Collaboration

23. Bettendorf Middle School • 7th and 8th Grade ELP • Cover Language Arts and ELP Curriculum • Meet two times a day all year • 6th Grade ELP • ELP Curriculum • Meets once a day every other day starting second semester

24. BMS ELP • Follow the Autonomous Learner Model • Independent study projects 4th quarter • 7th and 8th grade: Night of the Notables • 7th Grade: Consumer Fair • 8th Grade: Quad City Spotlight

25. Bettendorf High School • First Quarter • Getting to Know Myself, Others, and How to Think • Second Quarter • Critical Thinking Skills • Third Quarter • Problem Solving to Make a Difference • Fourth Quarter • Controversial Issues that Impact Your World

26. BHS Assessment and Transcript Notation • Rubric Criteria • Attendance • Preparedness • Involvement • Thinking • Transcript Notation

28. Where do we want to be?

29. Things to work on • Assessment • Communication • Scheduling • Extensions • Emphasize HOTS

31. Creative Thinking • There are six eggs in the basket. • Six people each take one of the eggs • How can it be that one egg is left in the basket?

32. Creative Thinking • The last person took the basket with the last egg inside.

33. Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.