I have recently been appointed tic gifted and talented in english and am at a loss as to where to start from. We have just started our new year at school and I am to present a paper on how we are going to implement our GATE programme in English. Can anyone help with ideas and or materials. I am scared but excited.
Hi Mabel!
I'd suggest starting by looking at what you're doing already that provides for gifted pupils in English - rather than colleagues feeling they have to start doing something new. It could be interesting to look at some definitions and characteristics of gifted pupils in English, and seeing what you agree with and what you might want to add - see the QCA gifted and talented area at http://www.qca.org.uk/qca_2052.aspx for some ideas.
And check out the LGT Teacher Tools resources at http://teachertools.londongt.org/index.php (note you may have to register but it is free!) - the 'easy walkthroughs' are particularly useful for getting started. The questioning presentation at http://teachertools.londongt.org/index.php?page=questioningTechniques is great for getting teachers thinking about the kinds of questions you're asking and how you can differentiate them to provide greater challenge.
Hope that gives you some ideas - am sure others will have more!
The first step will be to embed G&T more firmly into the English Curriculum via sending two other colleagues in October to the next round of e-English (15th October) as you can't beat first hand experience!
To research gifted and talented more throughly and disseminate the findings.
I'm looking forward to diving straight into my new role as teacher i/c Key Stage 3 by addressing how we challenge and extend gifted students in English - in our department we need to think about how day-to-day teaching meets the needs of the most able children. I will want to talk to the whole-school co-ordinator for Gifted and Talented, and build a department-wide policy for teaching gifted students. I also hope to work with the post-holders for Key Stage 3 for Maths and Science to ensure our G&T provision is a bit more "joined-up" across the school.
Step 1
I am waiting to teach in September. Our first cohort of Year 7. To implement our SOW and put into practice our planning and everything from the network. We have written in Socratic dialogue and thinking skills into our first SOW on Autobiography. This will involve powerpoint presentations incorporating eerything we have learned.
Step 2
Reflect on our first term. Involve student voice with feedback and implement extension activities for G&T students.
Step 3
Evidence: School ethos will hopefully reflect P4C and e english. I will have embedded Latin project to look at derivations of language which will feed into 'Literacy' as well as higher order thinking skills.
Will have to do a study of all the topics available and incorporate it into planning for next year. Will have to make a conscious effort to stimulate gifted and talented kids in each class I teach. The only way to really figure out whether it was successful or not would be to get feedback from classes-boring or not,what they liked or disliked,interesting/uninteresting,etc. Would also be able to see if the kids could do higher level thinking when I mark their work.
Probably right foot then left foot or maybe left foot then right foot. I think I will repeat these steps too.
- To teach, with these issue in mind
- I think progress of G+T students should be monitored specifically but also in line with the progress of other students
- I want to see a change in my teaching focus and develop strategies to empower the students, rather than chalk and talk or just give them extra worksheets.
In the coming year I hope to incorporate these online resources into our shemes of work and also to look at how they will blend into changing POS for KS3 in 2008.
I would really like to see my colleagues attend the other e-networks.
I'll be interested to see how the department embraces these new resources and the work that students will produce as an outcome of using some of these resources.
My next steps will be formally cascading the resources I have learnt about on this course; I have informally spoken to many but I would like to formally do it.
Beyond this, I would will be encouraging colleagues to use the resources - if not, then certainly taking advantage of the links.
Furthermore, embedding within my own teaching and hopefully collaborating with colleagues to produce work which challenges and enriches our students.
I will certainly be involved with my school's enrichment activity program in some way. I will be investigating how student voice is elicited in my school and pushing to explore ways that it can be identified.
: )
I think that I want to think more carefully about a G and T department policy and of course make further use of the online resources / ideas from network colleagues in my own teaching.
I aim to increase student awareness and understanding of the higher order thinking skills at the beginning of the year and to incorporate opportunities to use these thinking skills within my lessons. I hope to see greater focus in my more able students and believe this, along with the work that they produce, will be evidence of the sucess of these changes.
To evaluate Yr 7 Inbetween the Lines Project with Intervention teacher and plan for intervention for next year. I also plan to train my NQT to use the resources, or maybe recommend she comes on this course herself.
I have been inspired by the ideas shared in this session and have decided to try and set up a club for gifted and talented students, possibly leading towards a trip at the end of the year to one of the creative writing courses at the Arvon Foundation. http://www.arvonfoundation.org/
I might also try and push for a whole-school approach to listening to the voice of gifted and talented students, maybe using questionnaires to be filled in at the end of each unit studied.
Next year I would like to use lots more thinking skills in lessons. I have alrady started making posters, so I can just blutack them on the board and move them around if the board needs to be used for something else.
I've also written a scheme of work for Angela's Ashes which builds in mind maps.
We are going to use IBTL for post Sats teaching next year, so we will need, as a dept to come up with a route through them.
I'd like to spend more time looking through the many resources on the e-english website for planning.
I would really love to attend the star performance learning network!
*Fully audit schemes of work to ensure we are catering fo G&T students, with particular focus on effective questioning and critical and crestive thinking.
*continue staff training on e-english network.
*set up a mentoring scheme for Year 10 G&T students.
*organise a support system in English for G&T students.
Look into setting up A/A* focus groups.
Set up resource pack / file for G&T resources / activities. Try out resources discussed today with my top set. Look into Star Performance course.
Next steps are to compile a resources pack for colleagues full of lovely 'how to stretch your g&t pupils' ideas along with what skills these activities promote.
Also, i'm going to contact the whole school g&t coordinator to ensure that a structured whole school approach to g&t can be designed for next year.
One of the key next steps I need to take is to embed this teaching into the department. This could be done by incorporating these resources into schemes of work, peer observations and time in department meetings set aside for the discussion of Gifted and Talented pupils and our provision for them. We also need to ensure that we read and use the feedback pupils give us as part of our evaluation of our teaching.
I now want to explore more of the e-learning english network resources and make them explicitly available to the department. I will also use these resources to trial lessons and feedback to the department. I also want to use them in current schemes of work.
english
I have recently been appointed tic gifted and talented in english and am at a loss as to where to start from. We have just started our new year at school and I am to present a paper on how we are going to implement our GATE programme in English. Can anyone help with ideas and or materials. I am scared but excited.
Getting started with english
Hi Mabel!
I'd suggest starting by looking at what you're doing already that provides for gifted pupils in English - rather than colleagues feeling they have to start doing something new. It could be interesting to look at some definitions and characteristics of gifted pupils in English, and seeing what you agree with and what you might want to add - see the QCA gifted and talented area at http://www.qca.org.uk/qca_2052.aspx for some ideas.
And check out the LGT Teacher Tools resources at http://teachertools.londongt.org/index.php (note you may have to register but it is free!) - the 'easy walkthroughs' are particularly useful for getting started. The questioning presentation at http://teachertools.londongt.org/index.php?page=questioningTechniques is great for getting teachers thinking about the kinds of questions you're asking and how you can differentiate them to provide greater challenge.
Hope that gives you some ideas - am sure others will have more!
Liz
Next Steps
The first step will be to embed G&T more firmly into the English Curriculum via sending two other colleagues in October to the next round of e-English (15th October) as you can't beat first hand experience!
To research gifted and talented more throughly and disseminate the findings.
Next steps in G&T provision
I'm looking forward to diving straight into my new role as teacher i/c Key Stage 3 by addressing how we challenge and extend gifted students in English - in our department we need to think about how day-to-day teaching meets the needs of the most able children. I will want to talk to the whole-school co-ordinator for Gifted and Talented, and build a department-wide policy for teaching gifted students. I also hope to work with the post-holders for Key Stage 3 for Maths and Science to ensure our G&T provision is a bit more "joined-up" across the school.
English
Step 1
I am waiting to teach in September. Our first cohort of Year 7. To implement our SOW and put into practice our planning and everything from the network. We have written in Socratic dialogue and thinking skills into our first SOW on Autobiography. This will involve powerpoint presentations incorporating eerything we have learned.
Step 2
Reflect on our first term. Involve student voice with feedback and implement extension activities for G&T students.
Step 3
Evidence: School ethos will hopefully reflect P4C and e english. I will have embedded Latin project to look at derivations of language which will feed into 'Literacy' as well as higher order thinking skills.
next steps
Will have to do a study of all the topics available and incorporate it into planning for next year. Will have to make a conscious effort to stimulate gifted and talented kids in each class I teach. The only way to really figure out whether it was successful or not would be to get feedback from classes-boring or not,what they liked or disliked,interesting/uninteresting,etc. Would also be able to see if the kids could do higher level thinking when I mark their work.
Next Steps
Probably right foot then left foot or maybe left foot then right foot. I think I will repeat these steps too.
- To teach, with these issue in mind
- I think progress of G+T students should be monitored specifically but also in line with the progress of other students
- I want to see a change in my teaching focus and develop strategies to empower the students, rather than chalk and talk or just give them extra worksheets.
Little by little
In the coming year I hope to incorporate these online resources into our shemes of work and also to look at how they will blend into changing POS for KS3 in 2008.
I would really like to see my colleagues attend the other e-networks.
I'll be interested to see how the department embraces these new resources and the work that students will produce as an outcome of using some of these resources.
My next steps will be
My next steps will be formally cascading the resources I have learnt about on this course; I have informally spoken to many but I would like to formally do it.
Beyond this, I would will be encouraging colleagues to use the resources - if not, then certainly taking advantage of the links.
Furthermore, embedding within my own teaching and hopefully collaborating with colleagues to produce work which challenges and enriches our students.
I will certainly be involved with my school's enrichment activity program in some way. I will be investigating how student voice is elicited in my school and pushing to explore ways that it can be identified.
: )
Turning ideas into policy
I think that I want to think more carefully about a G and T department policy and of course make further use of the online resources / ideas from network colleagues in my own teaching.
next steps
I aim to increase student awareness and understanding of the higher order thinking skills at the beginning of the year and to incorporate opportunities to use these thinking skills within my lessons. I hope to see greater focus in my more able students and believe this, along with the work that they produce, will be evidence of the sucess of these changes.
sp
Creative NOT crestive! Sorry!
I'm going to feedback to my
I'm going to feedback to my department about this course and try to highlight the importance of catering to the needs of G and T students.
I would like to encourage my colleagues to make some provision for student voice throughout the school as this is something I feel is very important.
English
To evaluate Yr 7 Inbetween the Lines Project with Intervention teacher and plan for intervention for next year. I also plan to train my NQT to use the resources, or maybe recommend she comes on this course herself.
My new plans
I have been inspired by the ideas shared in this session and have decided to try and set up a club for gifted and talented students, possibly leading towards a trip at the end of the year to one of the creative writing courses at the Arvon Foundation.
http://www.arvonfoundation.org/
I might also try and push for a whole-school approach to listening to the voice of gifted and talented students, maybe using questionnaires to be filled in at the end of each unit studied.
Next steps
Next year I would like to use lots more thinking skills in lessons. I have alrady started making posters, so I can just blutack them on the board and move them around if the board needs to be used for something else.
I've also written a scheme of work for Angela's Ashes which builds in mind maps.
We are going to use IBTL for post Sats teaching next year, so we will need, as a dept to come up with a route through them.
I'd like to spend more time looking through the many resources on the e-english website for planning.
I would really love to attend the star performance learning network!
Next steps
In the coming year, I intend to:
*Fully audit schemes of work to ensure we are catering fo G&T students, with particular focus on effective questioning and critical and crestive thinking.
*continue staff training on e-english network.
*set up a mentoring scheme for Year 10 G&T students.
*organise a support system in English for G&T students.
next steps
Look into setting up A/A* focus groups.
Set up resource pack / file for G&T resources / activities. Try out resources discussed today with my top set. Look into Star Performance course.
Step by step....
Next steps are to compile a resources pack for colleagues full of lovely 'how to stretch your g&t pupils' ideas along with what skills these activities promote.
Also, i'm going to contact the whole school g&t coordinator to ensure that a structured whole school approach to g&t can be designed for next year.
Next steps
One of the key next steps I need to take is to embed this teaching into the department. This could be done by incorporating these resources into schemes of work, peer observations and time in department meetings set aside for the discussion of Gifted and Talented pupils and our provision for them. We also need to ensure that we read and use the feedback pupils give us as part of our evaluation of our teaching.
What's next?
I now want to explore more of the e-learning english network resources and make them explicitly available to the department. I will also use these resources to trial lessons and feedback to the department. I also want to use them in current schemes of work.