Gifted and Talented
Starla Gresham
The Gifted and Talented program offers every child at Jim Stone Elementary the opportunity to work Mrs. Gresham, the GT teacher, on a weekly basis.
Kindergarten-2nd grade: Whole group classes come for forty minutes, once a week. Mrs. Gresham works with them on activities that focus on the top three levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. as well as using the right and left sides of the brain.
3rd-4th grades: Whole group classes come for forty minutes, once a week. These classes focus on test taking strategies that will help them with both Benchmark and standardized testing.
3rd-4th grades: Small group classes are made up of students that need a little more challenge outside the classroom. These classes run on an eight week cycle. Students create a Power Point presentation for their peers.
3rd-4th grades: The elementary Pinnacle Program instructional models are academically enriched programs in which the curriculum is differentiated. Instruction is student-centered, involving student choices, and is more quickly paced. Topics emphasize creativity, problem solving, and higher order level thinking skills. Objectives include: a depth in thinking, breadth and depth of activities, personal interpretation, personal challenge, and attainment of concepts at higher levels of abstraction or complexity. The curriculum is meant to be interesting as well as to provide creative experiences with challenging projects and quality production. Students work on developing responsibility for their own learning and growth.
Fourth grade students are given the opportunity to join the chess club and compete at the district level tournament each March. Students winning at that level move on to the regional tournament.
All fourth grade students compete on a Quiz Bowl team made up of students from other Conway elementary schools in May. This gives the students an opportunity to meet peers they will be going to school with when they move on to intermediate school.
Mrs. Gresham has twenty-nine years experience, all of with Conway Public Schools. Nineteen of these years have been spent working with gifted education. She has been a presenter at NAGC and AGATE, at both the state and national levels. Mrs. Gresham is a National Board Certified teacher, with a Masters in Reading and is the author of Creative Problem Solving and Primary Heaven.
Kindergarten-2nd grade: Whole group classes come for forty minutes, once a week. Mrs. Gresham works with them on activities that focus on the top three levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. as well as using the right and left sides of the brain.
3rd-4th grades: Whole group classes come for forty minutes, once a week. These classes focus on test taking strategies that will help them with both Benchmark and standardized testing.
3rd-4th grades: Small group classes are made up of students that need a little more challenge outside the classroom. These classes run on an eight week cycle. Students create a Power Point presentation for their peers.
3rd-4th grades: The elementary Pinnacle Program instructional models are academically enriched programs in which the curriculum is differentiated. Instruction is student-centered, involving student choices, and is more quickly paced. Topics emphasize creativity, problem solving, and higher order level thinking skills. Objectives include: a depth in thinking, breadth and depth of activities, personal interpretation, personal challenge, and attainment of concepts at higher levels of abstraction or complexity. The curriculum is meant to be interesting as well as to provide creative experiences with challenging projects and quality production. Students work on developing responsibility for their own learning and growth.
Fourth grade students are given the opportunity to join the chess club and compete at the district level tournament each March. Students winning at that level move on to the regional tournament.
All fourth grade students compete on a Quiz Bowl team made up of students from other Conway elementary schools in May. This gives the students an opportunity to meet peers they will be going to school with when they move on to intermediate school.
Mrs. Gresham has twenty-nine years experience, all of with Conway Public Schools. Nineteen of these years have been spent working with gifted education. She has been a presenter at NAGC and AGATE, at both the state and national levels. Mrs. Gresham is a National Board Certified teacher, with a Masters in Reading and is the author of Creative Problem Solving and Primary Heaven.