Welcome to GLEE for Middle School!
Your GLEE FacilitatorsNikki Sandor- AIG Coordinator [email protected]
Kris Harlan- Pitts School Rd. Elem [email protected]
Julie Felix- Harris Road Middle [email protected]
Kimm Murfitt- Harris Road Middle [email protected]
Esther Hauber- Mount Pleasant Middle [email protected]
Bernice Williams- Concord Middle [email protected]
Angie Martin- JN Fries Middle [email protected]
Erica Giles- JN Fries Middle [email protected]
April Wingler- Hickory Ridge Middle [email protected]
GLEE HAS ARRIVED!GIFTED LOCAL ENDORSEMENT FOR EDUCATORS
Description and Definition of Local Endorsement:
Cabarrus County Schools, in compliance with the North Carolina Academically / Intellectually Gifted State
Standards, offers local training to classroom teachers working with gifted students.
This training, Gifted Local Endorsement for Educators (GLEE), is not comparable to AIG state licensure and is non-
transferrable.
GLEE for Middle School promotes basic understanding of the characteristics and social/emotional needs of gifted students as well as implementation of differentiated
content and instructional strategies for advanced learners.
Warm UpGifted Person Character
Map
On the 1st page of your notebook glue in your character
map:
Turn and talk with a partner about your character map.
Include:
Physical traits
Emotional characteristics
Social characteristics
Cognitive characteristics
Gifted Learner Profiles
1. With your group, read the Gifted Learner Profile
2. Use the chart paper to:
• Put Profile # in the top right-hand corner
• Make a "nickname" for your profile
• List Key Characteristics of your profile
• List ways in which we are currently meeting the needs of these students
• List any "gaps" we may currently have in meeting the needs of these students
PILOT YEAR BASIC FACTS
WHO? 4-6 teachers from each middle school.
WHY?Upon successful completion of the GLEE program, participants will earn 3 CEUs and a CCS Gifted Local
Endorsement certificate.
Administrators will be encouraged to place AIG students in GLEE endorsed teachers classrooms.
HOW?Participants will complete an Interactive Notebook filled
with tasks related to gifted education, and learn strategies for using Interactive Notebooks.
Participants will need to share textbooks in order to complete monthly readings.
GLEE Cohort Requirements:
Two whole group meetings with GLEE Cohort participants and Facilitators.
Meeting with the AIG chairs at your school at the end of each month to discuss the monthly activity, present any questions you have, and turn in your finalized tasks for the month
Turn in your completed Interactive Notebook (the product) in April as evidence of your work
Return the 3 books at the last GLEE Cohort meeting that were on loan to you to use as references.
GLEE Checkpoints Erica Giles
Angie Martin
Alyn Szmanski & Kim Harris
Kristy Bullock
Leslie Griffin
Shanna Meehan
Megan McNutt
Kim Burr
GLEE Overview
Topic 1: Overview of gifted learners
Topic 2: Social and Emotional Understanding of gifted
learners
Topic 3: Thinking like a gifted kid
Topic 4: Rigor: What is it?
Topic 5: Content Differentiation
Topic 6: Product Differentiation
Topic 7: Technology and Gifted Learners
8 month course
GLEE Due Dates:
Task 1: September 30th Task 2: October 30thTask 3: December 15thTask 4: January 29thTask 5: February 26thTask 7: March 21stTask 8 and Notebook: April 26th
4/26/16 Cohort final meeting and project sharing 4:30-5:30 Winkler Middle
GLEE Website Go to CCS Website
Go to Departments: Gifted Education
On Left Side at Bottom of List:
CCS Middle School GLEE
Available on the Website
Monthly task assignment directions and materials These will be available through the month of the
assignment and 2 weeks past the due date
Interactive Notebook Resources for use in your classroom
1st meeting PowerPoint for reference
Additional Resources list for working with gifted children
GLEE Notebook Checklist
Complete front cover information
Glue in Article 9b (inside cover top)
Glue in GLEE Task Check List (inside cover bottom)
Glue in GLEE rubric on inside back cover
Fill in Table of Contents Pages
Put tabs in notebook
TABS:Pg 1 IntroductionPg 5 SeptemberPg7 OctoberPg 13 Nov-DecPg 15 JanuaryPg 21 FebruaryPg 23 MarchPg 25 April