AAE: Advanced Academics & Enrichment. Our school's version of a gifted & talented program.
Academy Program: the name of BHS's basic skills program. THere are 2 Academy Programs: one for grades K-5 with services offered during the school day, and one for grades 6-8 with services offered before or after school
Advanced, Real-Life Tasks: Allows a student to work on complex problems that would involve real-world situations
BHS: Bay Head School
Bloom's Taxonomy: developed by Benjamin Bloom in order to provide a common language to discuss and exchange learning and assessment methods. The goal of the educator is to encourage higher-order thought in students by building from the lower-cognitive skills up to the higher cognitive skills. There are six levels within the taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, creativity.
BSI: basic skills instruction
Creative thinking: involves creating something new or original. involves the skills of flexibility, originality, fluency, elaboration, brainstorming, modification, imagery, etc. Creative thinking stimulates curiosity and vice versa
Critical thinking: involves logical thinking and reasoning, including skills such as comparison, classification, sequencing, cause/effect, patterning, analogies, deductive and inductive reasoning, etc.
Differentiation: the instructional way in which a teacher anticipates and responds to a variety of needs in the classroom. To meet student needs, teachers modify the content in various ways which can include: changing the pace, changing the delivery, changing the product, or changing the process.
ELL (English Language Learner), ESL (English as a Second Language): Students whose first language is something other than English., students who are emergent bilingual. Communication challenges can often cover gifts and talents, causing them to be underrepresented in enrichment programs. BHS makes every effort to offer, when necessary, instruction and assessments that address this issue of underrepresentation.
Gifted and Talented Students: According to NJAC 6A:8, gifted and talented students are "those students who possess or demonstrate high levels of ability in one ore more content areas, when compared to their chronological peers in the local school district and who require modifications of their educational program if they are to achieve in accordance with their capabilities.
Identification: methods used to determine which services are best suited for students within the framework of AA&E or BSI
PEP (Pupil Enrichment Program): a "special" offered to all students in kindergarten through fifth grade offering STEAM experiences.
Problem Based Learning: an approach to learning in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem. Students take an active role in current, authentic, and real-world problems.
Program Evaluation: a systematic assessment of the outcomes and values of a program provided over a period of time
Renzulli: Joseph Fenzulli studied gifted behavior and developed the three-ring conception of giftedness. Renzulli considers three factors important for the development of gifted behavior: above average ability, creativity, and task commitment
RTI (Response to Intervention)
STEAM- an acronym used to describe the subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math. The goal is integrating the five subjects into an inquiry-based, hands on curriculum that is more closely aligned to real-world situations
Tiered Assignments- tasks that create different levels of challenge, growing in complexity for the student
Twice Exceptional: the quality of being both gifted and possessing a learning disability, a physical disability, or an emotional disability or a combination of a few or all
borrowed with thanks from K. Hoffman/Antrim
Academy Program: the name of BHS's basic skills program. THere are 2 Academy Programs: one for grades K-5 with services offered during the school day, and one for grades 6-8 with services offered before or after school
Advanced, Real-Life Tasks: Allows a student to work on complex problems that would involve real-world situations
BHS: Bay Head School
Bloom's Taxonomy: developed by Benjamin Bloom in order to provide a common language to discuss and exchange learning and assessment methods. The goal of the educator is to encourage higher-order thought in students by building from the lower-cognitive skills up to the higher cognitive skills. There are six levels within the taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, creativity.
BSI: basic skills instruction
Creative thinking: involves creating something new or original. involves the skills of flexibility, originality, fluency, elaboration, brainstorming, modification, imagery, etc. Creative thinking stimulates curiosity and vice versa
Critical thinking: involves logical thinking and reasoning, including skills such as comparison, classification, sequencing, cause/effect, patterning, analogies, deductive and inductive reasoning, etc.
Differentiation: the instructional way in which a teacher anticipates and responds to a variety of needs in the classroom. To meet student needs, teachers modify the content in various ways which can include: changing the pace, changing the delivery, changing the product, or changing the process.
ELL (English Language Learner), ESL (English as a Second Language): Students whose first language is something other than English., students who are emergent bilingual. Communication challenges can often cover gifts and talents, causing them to be underrepresented in enrichment programs. BHS makes every effort to offer, when necessary, instruction and assessments that address this issue of underrepresentation.
Gifted and Talented Students: According to NJAC 6A:8, gifted and talented students are "those students who possess or demonstrate high levels of ability in one ore more content areas, when compared to their chronological peers in the local school district and who require modifications of their educational program if they are to achieve in accordance with their capabilities.
Identification: methods used to determine which services are best suited for students within the framework of AA&E or BSI
PEP (Pupil Enrichment Program): a "special" offered to all students in kindergarten through fifth grade offering STEAM experiences.
Problem Based Learning: an approach to learning in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem. Students take an active role in current, authentic, and real-world problems.
Program Evaluation: a systematic assessment of the outcomes and values of a program provided over a period of time
Renzulli: Joseph Fenzulli studied gifted behavior and developed the three-ring conception of giftedness. Renzulli considers three factors important for the development of gifted behavior: above average ability, creativity, and task commitment
RTI (Response to Intervention)
STEAM- an acronym used to describe the subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math. The goal is integrating the five subjects into an inquiry-based, hands on curriculum that is more closely aligned to real-world situations
Tiered Assignments- tasks that create different levels of challenge, growing in complexity for the student
Twice Exceptional: the quality of being both gifted and possessing a learning disability, a physical disability, or an emotional disability or a combination of a few or all
borrowed with thanks from K. Hoffman/Antrim