| Programs that Maximize Potential |
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| Elizabeth Iannitelli, Supervisor |
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Mission
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The Jersey City Public Schools are committed to an educational program that recognizes the unique needs and talents of students with exceptional abilities and potential. The purpose is to provide opportunities for each identified student to develop and/or broaden his/her particular abilities and potentialities.
The Jersey City Public Schools further recognizes that students with exceptional abilities and potential require programs that individualized as well as differentiate beyond that provided by the regular school curriculum and classroom structure. The focus of such a program is on identification of the needs of these students and meeting those needs through appropriate productivity, creativity, and motivation as well as the affective skills which involve self-concept values and socialization.
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Overview
In accordance with N.J.A.C. 6A:8-3.1
Definition for Gifted and Talented: means those exceptionally able students who possess or demonstrate levels of ability, in one or more content areas, when compared to their chronological peers in the local district and who require modifications of their educational program if they are to achieve in accordance with their capabilities.
Programs That Maximize Potential (PMP) is designed to provide a differentiate program and curriculum at grades 3-8. The title PMP has been adopted as the “umbrella” for all the components serving grades 3-8. The components share a common program philosophy, but each has unique characteristics to tap the students’ abilities and is specifically designed for the grade level it serves.
PMP is designed to extend, expand and enrich learning opportunities for students. It reflects the district’s vision of providing optimum opportunities for learning for all students and is consistent with the guidelines for gifted education in the State of New Jersey.
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Curriculum Synopses
The curriculum in PMP will be differentiated from the standard curriculum to
accommodate students with exceptional abilities and potential. The content of the
curriculum for gifted students should focus on and be organized to include more
elaborate, complex and in-depth study of major ideas, problems, and themes that integrate knowledge within and across systems of thought..
Curriculum for gifted students should allow for the development and application of
productive thinking skills to enable students to conceptualize existing knowledge and/or
generate new knowledge.
Curriculum for gifted students should enable them to explore constantly changing
knowledge and information and develop the attitude that knowledge is worth pursuing in
an open world.
Curriculum for gifted students should encourage exposure to, selection, and use of
appropriate and specialized resources.
Curriculum for gifted students should promote self-initiated and self-directed learning
and growth.
A differentiated classroom offers a variety of learning options designed to tap into
different readiness levels, interests, and learning profiles. In a differentiated class, the
teacher uses (I) a variety of ways for students to explore curriculum content, (2) a variety
of sense-making activities or processes through which students can come to understand
and “own” information and ideas, and (3) a variety of options through which students can
demonstrate or exhibit what they have learned.
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Among instructional strategies that can help teachers manage differentiation and help
students find a good learning “fit” are the following:
. use of multiple texts and supplementary materials;
. use of computer programs;
. interest centers;
. learning contracts;
. compacting;
. tiered sense-making activities and tiered products;
. tasks and products designed with a multiple
. intelligence orientation;
. independent learning contracts;
. complex instruction;
. group investigation;
. product criteria negotiated jointly by student and teacher;
. graduated task- and product-rubrics.
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Updates
AEP applications should be arriving in each School who has 5th and 6th graders. All Jersey City residents are eligible.
The AEP admission test is being held on March 11, 2006. The exam is from 8:30am through 11:30am. The location for the test is PS # 17, 600 Bergen Ave in Jersey City.
Scholastic Bowl matches are scheduled to start in the middle of February.
PS # 15 Middle will participate in Creativefest 06. The field trip is on February 8, 2006 and February 9, 2006.
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Department Staff
Mrs. Elizabeth Iannitelli, Supervisor
Programs That Maximize Potential
201-369-3720
Mrs. Zoila Colon, clerk
201-915-3499 |
