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EXPO Parent Meeting 2010-2011. Intellectual Humility. Fair-mindedness. Faith in Reason. Intellectual Courage. Intellectual Virtues. Intellectual Perseverance. Intellectual Empathy. Intellectual Integrity. Sandra Kaplan’s Depth and Complexity with the Texas Performance Standards. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Being Gifted Has Its Ups and Downs

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Being Gifted

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Intellectual Virtues

Inte

llect

ual

Hum

ility

Intellectual

Courage

Intellectual

Empathy

Intellectual

IntegrityInte

llect

ual

Per

seve

ranc

eFaith in

Reason

Fair-

mindedness

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Sandra Kaplan’s Depth and Complexity with the Texas Performance Standards The EXPO department has received

extensive training in Sandra Kaplan’s model of Depth and Complexity and Scholarliness

We’ve taken this model of differentiation and combined it with the Texas Performance Standards Project.

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Concrete Abstract

Depth Complexity Novelty

Dependent Independent

Reflective Learners

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Kaplan’s Grid

Thinking skill

Research skill

Product

Complexity

Curriculum

Depth

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The Learning Experiences: Building Blocks of the Unit

Content

+ Process + Product

=Learning

Experiences

ContentKnowledg

eConcept

Skill+

ProcessThinkingProblem Solving

Research

+

Product Visual

OralKinestheti

cWritten=

Learning Experience

s

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Taxonomy of Learning, Instruction, and Assessment

The Knowledge Dimension

The Cognitive Process Dimension1

Remember2

Understand3

Apply4

Analyze5

Evaluate6

Create

A.Factual Knowledge

B.Conceptual Knowledge

C.Procedural Knowledge

D. Metacognitive

Knowledge

•The taxonomy is two dimensional

•The taxonomy can be interpreted in layers

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Concepts in the Disciplines

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EXPO Universal Themes/Units

3rd – Patterns – Mathematics in Nature 4th – Structure - Enigmas 5th – Culture – Collectibles: Fad or Fortune 6th – Relationships – Everyone’s A Winner:

The Study of Conflict and Mediation 7th – Change – Lifestyles of the Fit and

Famous 8th – Systems – Challenging the System

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Depth Discipline exploration How do teachers and students

dig deeper into the curriculum? Focus teacher’s and student’s

attention on increasingly more difficult, divergent, and abstract qualities of knowing a discipline or area.

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Language of the

Discipline

Trend

Detail

Big Ideas

Unanswered Questions

Patterns

Ethics

Rules

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Complexity

How the topic relates to other disciplines

How does perspective affect the way disciplinarians explain their environment?

How knowledge is extended or broadened

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Across the Disciplines

PerspectiveOver Time

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Results

Students have the opportunity to explore an enriched, differentiated curriculum

Concrete

Abstract

Curriculum

Student Cognition

Student’s

academic

development

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Set

Batik

Blink

Chairs

Plexers

Rush Hour

IT TAKES LITTLE EFFORT TO MEET THEIR NEEDS!

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ChessScrabble

Battle ShipImprovisationRubik's Cubes

Jig Saw PuzzlesBrain Teaser Puzzles

IT TAKES LITTLE EFFORT TO MEET THEIR NEEDS!

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EXPO Policies

• Furlough

• Probation

• Reporting progress in EXPO

• Expectations

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GIFTED RESOURCES

www.mindwareonline.comwww.piecesoflearning.comwww.engine-uity.comwww.tinmanpress.comwww.edimpressions.comwww.criticalthinking.comwww.giftedbooks.comwww.kingore.comwww.txgifted.orgwww.tea.state.tx.us/gtedwww.nagc.orgwww.dentonisd.org/expo

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FOR FURTHER ASSISTANCE…• Please feel free to contact me for more detail on

any concept presented today.• I will be happy to visit with you anytime you have a

question. You may also contact:• Lori Mabry, Coordinator of Advanced Academics

Professional Development Center

1212 Bolivar

Denton, TX 76201

940-369-0678

[email protected]

www.dentonisd.org/expo