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Academies of Inquiry and Talent for the Middle School Years

by Joseph S. Renzulli and Susannah Richards

The work reported herein was supported under the Educational Research and Development Centers Program, PR/Award Number R206R50001, as administered by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education. The findings and opinions expressed in this report do not reflect the position or policies of the National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students, the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, or the U.S. Department of Education.
Education can not be for students in any authentic way, if it is not of and by them.  --William H. Schubert, President, The John Dewey Society
When you enter Chisholm Middle School on Friday afternoons, there is an unquestionable buzz throughout the building. The whole building is aflutter with activity and the students seem so engaged. In one room, a group of students are using computer aided design programs to create furniture for the district kindergarten room. In another room, students are studying aquatic culture in order to decide on the contents and habitat for an aquarium that will be placed middle school entryway. These students are participating in enrichment clusters that are parts of an Academy of Interest and Talent Development. Each group includes 6th, 7th and 8th graders with different levels of knowledge and creativity. Both groups of students are enrolled in the Academy of Science and Technology. When they entered Chisholm Middle School, they completed interest surveys, and based on their responses and discussions with teachers, these students chose to enter the Academy of Science and Technology.
Although some of the students do well in their traditional middle school classes, a number of students have difficulty motivating themselves to complete school-related tasks. However, in their work for the Academy, they are motivated and very often exceed expectations for their portion of a project. Academies of Inquiry and Talent Development (AITD) are an outgrowth of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM). Some middle schools throughout the country have used the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (Renzulli & Reis, 1997) in order to meet the diverse cognitive and social needs of their students.
The AITD model complements middle school philosophy. Middle school educators are committed to providing a challenging and enjoyable academic experience while, at the same time, maintaining strong support for the social and personal goals of middle level education set forth by the National Middle School Association (NMSA, 1982). Bradley and Manzo (2000) noted that for the past 30 years middle schools have attended to the intellectual, social, emotional and physical needs of young adolescents. It is our belief this model provides opportunities for middle school students to develop their intellectual talents in ways that allow for social and emotional growth as well.
Foundation in SEM
Through a "continuum of services" approach, the SEM provides numerous enrichment and acceleration alternatives that are designed to accommodate the academic strengths, interests, and learning styles of all middle-level students. Rather than labeling students as gifted, the focus is on recognizing behavioral potentials for superior performance and enhancing these potentials by creating an environment where those behaviors can flourish.
The major goal of SEM is to promote both challenging and enjoyable "high-end learning" across the full range of school types, levels, and demographic differences. The model is not intended to replace or minimize existing services to high achieving students, but rather to integrate these services into "a-rising-tide-lifts-all-ships" approach to school improvement.
These are the three major components that make up SEM. The Total Talent Portfolio (TTP) is used to systematically gather and record information about students' abilities, interests, and learning style preferences. This information is then analyzed to make meaningful decisions about necessary curricular modifications and enrichment opportunities.
The second component of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model is a series of techniques that are designed to assess each student's mastery level of regular curricular material; adjust the pace and level of required material to accommodate variations in learning; and provide enrichment and acceleration alternatives for students who have, or can, easily master regular material faster than the normal pace. Curriculum compacting and curriculum differentiation are two procedures that teachers use to accommodate these learning differences.
In the third component of SEM, enrichment learning and teaching strategies are designed to actively engage both teachers and students. Although enrichment learning and teaching can be integrated with the regular curriculum, we have found that we can guarantee opportunities for high-end learning by creating clusters within the school's weekly schedule.
Enrichment clusters are non-graded groups of students who share common interests, and who come together to pursue these interests during specially designated time blocks usually consisting of one-half day per week. There is one "golden rule" for enrichment clusters: Everything students do in the cluster is directed toward producing a product or delivering a service for a real-world audience. There are no predeteremined lesson plans and what takes place within an enrichment cluster is analogous to the workings of a real world entity such as a film studio, research laboratory, publishing company, or historical society. All learning takes place within the context of developing authentic products or services for real world audiences. Divisions of labor are encouraged to insure that maximum respect is given to each student's interests, learning styles, and preferred modes of expression.
Enrichment clusters can revolve around major disciplines, interdisciplinary themes, or cross-disciplinary topics. A theatrical/television production group, for example, might include actors, writers, technical specialists, and costume designers. Within such a cluster, students direct their how-to knowledge, thinking skills, and interpersonal relations toward producing a product or service. Instead of lesson plans or unit plans, they are guided by six questions.
· What do people with an interest in this area—for example, filmmaking—do?
· What products do they create and/or what services do they provide?
· What knowledge, materials, and other resources do we need to authentically complete activities in this area?
· What methods do they use to carry out their work?
· How, and with whom, do they communicate the results of their work? In what ways can we use the product or service to affect the intended audience?
Middle-school enrichment clusters have created newspapers, designed playgrounds, and developed small businesses. While some of these clusters have outlived their original scheduled meetings, there are other clusters whose life was shortened because there was no structure to support them.
The Structure of AITDs
Within AITDs, students and teachers who share a common interest in a curricular area (e.g. science, literature, or math) are clustered over the three or four years that they are in middle school. Middle school students choose one of six or more academies to enter when they begin middle school. Each academy is guided by a teacher/facilitator (this is usually a teacher, but occasionally had been a member of the community) who shares an interest in the general areas of that field. Potential academies might include: The Academy of Literature, Language Arts, and the Humanities, The Academy of Applied Mathematics, The Academy of Social Sciences, The Academy of Fine and Performing Arts, The Academy of Physical and Life Sciences, The Academy of Sport and Leisure Studies, and The Academy of Computer Science and Technology.
AITDs provide a vehicle for sustained and meaningful relationships among middle school students with common interests and with adults who share the same general areas of interest. The AITD plan also respects the strong emphasis that middle schools place on teaming by providing an opportunity for students and adults with common interests to work in real world problem solving situations.
The idea for AITDs grew out of research and development dealing with a component of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) called enrichment clusters (Reis, Gentry, & Park, 1995; Renzulli, 1994; Renzulli & Reis, 1997). Our experience with middle school enrichment clusters indicated that middle level students frequently express an eagerness to remain together for additional, and usually more challenging involvement in their respective areas of interest. It is for this reason that we have developed this plan, not unlike the practice of "looping," to keep the same group of students and adults together during designated time blocks for the duration of their middle school years. Figure 2 illustrates the potential enrichment clusters that might be included in the Academy of Social Sciences. This figure also points out exploratory experiences and methodological processes that are designed to motivate students towards forming clusters and to provide them with authentic skills that are necessary for focusing cluster activity on applications of knowledge.
The AITD model was developed taking into consideration middle school philosophy and the unique characteristics of adolescent learners. This learning experience is designed to provide high levels of challenge and to capitalize on special areas of student and teacher interests.
The objectives of AITDs are based on two fundamental concepts around which all learning activities within the AITDs are organized. These concepts are authentic learning and real-life problems. Authentic learning consists of applying relevant knowledge, thinking skills, and interpersonal skills to the solution of real problems. Real-life problems require a personal frame of reference for the individual or group pursuing the problem, they do not have existing or unique solutions for persons addressing the problem, and they are directed toward a real audience with a purpose.
Authentic learning should be viewed as the vehicle through which everything, from basic skills to advanced content and processes, "comes together" in the form of student-developed products and services. This kind of learning represents a synthesis and an application of content, process, and personal involvement. The student's role is transformed from one of lesson-learner to first-hand inquirer, and the role of the teacher changes from an instructor and disseminator of knowledge to a combination of coach, resource procurer, mentor, and, at times, a partner or colleague. Although products play an important role in creating authentic learning situations, a major goal is the development and application of a wide range of cognitive, affective, and motivational processes.
In many ways our view of authentic learning compliments the guidelines Beane (1993) proposes for middle school curriculum. He states one guideline as follows: "The central purpose of the middle school curriculum should be helping early adolescents explore self and social meanings at this time in their lives" (p.18. ) We believe that self-selected, authentic investigations create an important "space" for middle school young people to find points of personal engagement. Beane also states that "the middle school curriculum should be firmly grounded in democracy" (p.19.) He believes that democratic curriculum can only be conceived when all people, both adults and students, collaborate to determine the curriculum. Like Beane, we firmly believe that authentic, interest based, investigative experiences, mutually determined by students and teachers, will provide the most powerful and meaningful learning experiences.
Given the diverse needs of middle school students, AITD provides a structure to organize learning around interests in such a way that the students pursue their intellectual growth while facilitating social and emotional growth.

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References
Beane, J. (1993). The Middle School: Natural Home of Integrated Curriculum. Educational Leadership. 49, 2, 9-13.
Bradley, A., & Manzo, K. K. (2000, October 4). The weak link in today's standards-driven environment, the middle grades are under pressure to produce–and ill-equipped to deliver. (Special Report). Education Week, p. 3-8.
National Middle School Association. (1982). This We Believe. Columbus, OH: Author.
Reis, S. M., Gentry, M., & Park, S. (1995). Extending the Pedagogy of Gifted Education to all Students. Storrs, CT: The University of Connecticut, The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented.
Renzulli, J. S., & Reis, S. M. (1997). The schoolwide enrichment model: A how-to guide for educational excellence (2nd ed.). Mansfield Center, CT: Creative Learning Press, Inc.
Renzulli, J. S. (1994). Schools for talent development: A practical plan for total school improvement. Mansfield Center, CT: Creative Learning Press, Inc.

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About the author
Joseph Renzulli is the Neag Professor of Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Connecticut where he also serves as the Director of The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. Email: renzulli@uconn.edu.
Susannah Richards is an Assistant Professor of Literacy Education in the Graduate School at the College of New Rochelle. Her areas of interest include gifted education, reading engagement, and middle level education. Before completing her doctorate at the University of Connecticut, she taught at the elementary and middle school level for 11 years. Email: susannahr@commongroup.net.
For more information, see the website www.gifted.uconn.edu/.

60 ways to use Renzulli in the classroom

1.     Learn about differentiation. Renzulli’s 5 Dimensions of Differentiation – (Content, Instructional Strategies, Classroom Organization, Products, and the Teacher) – are key to understanding differentiation and adding differentiation strategies to your teaching practice.  Renzulli includes a complete overview of the 5 Dimensions, with some helpful videos that give some ideas for how to manage them in your classroom.  Just go to “Getting Started”, and click “What is… Differentiation?”

2.     Have students create graphs of leaning styles. You can use the Renzulli Profiles to have students create visual graphs representing the learning profiles of the class as a whole.  Read off our list of learning styles in front of the class, and have them raise their hands if they have that learning style in their top three.  Keep a tally for each learning style – “Ten students like games!  Twelve students like peer tutoring!” – and then task the class with coming up with pie charts or line graphs to express the information gleaned from the Renzulli Profile.  This will help them understand learning processes, their class, and themselves – not to mention how to create graphs.  You can do it with interests and expression styles, too.  Teachers who have had the benefit of Renzulli in previous years can demonstrate how to create double bar graphs/historical bar graphs using data from the current and previous years.  How consistent are student interests, learning styles and expression styles from year to year?  Expand this by comparing the results of historical graphs constructed in higher/lower grades.  Are second grade strengths and interests more consistent from year to year than fifth grade strengths and interests?  Why might this be so?  Construct, Read & Interpret Graphs with RLS authentic Class/School data!
 
3.    Create a gallery walk of student profiles. Don’t be shy about distributing and displaying your students’ Renzulli profiles.  They do not contain sensitive personal information – rather, they identify and celebrate the unique strengths of each student.  Create a gallery walk by posting them in a prominent location in your classroom – this is a great activity for the beginning of the year, as students get to know each other – and for Parent-Teacher conference night, as you spotlight your work differentiating instruction.

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DIFFERENTIATION FOR G&T STUDENT

Dr Tracy Riley
Massey University
2000
The first step in educating our gifted and talented students in New Zealand is to acknowledge and cater to individual differences. No two students are the same. Each one has unique strengths, interests, abilities, qualities. As the Ministry of Education (2000) reminds us, students are calling out for recognition of their individuality.

A different way of learning is what kids are calling for. All of them are talking about how our one-size-fits-all delivery system – which mandates that everyone learn the same thing at the same time, no matter what their individual learning needs – has failed them (Sarason, 1993, cited in Tomlinson, 1999, p. 1).

Whether teaching at primary, intermediate, or secondary level, it should be the mission of every teacher to seek and support individual differences. For as Willis and Mann (2000) remind us, "without differentiated instruction, any child who varies from the norm will suffer". To do this requires getting to know each student.

David George (1997) of the United Kingdom provides us with a framework when considering individuals. We must take into account the following differences that each student brings to our classrooms:

• different learning styles,
• different rates of learning,
• different activities,
• different interests,
• different expectations,
• different motivation,
• different outcomes,
• different abilities,
• different resources,
• different reading skills,
• different tasks, and
• different levels of parental support (p. 106).

In New Zealand, it is essential we add to this list different cultures. Carol Ann Tomlinson (1999) reminds us that in regard to individual students, "teachers in healthy classrooms work continually to ... see who they really are, what makes them unique in the world" (p. 31). This appreciation of each child as an individual applies to all students, including our gifted and talented students.
Recognising individual strengths, abilities, qualities, and interests in our gifted and talented students necessitates acknowledgment of physical, intellectual, cultural, and social emotional uniqueness. This also means that the regular curriculum might not fit. A mismatch will indeed occur for our gifted and talented students. Our goal in individualisation should be to seek and obtain a better fit or different style, size, design. The buzz word for this tailoring of the curriculum is differentiation.

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George (1997) states that differentiation is a "relatively simple" (p. 104) concept. In his words, it is the "process of assessing individual needs and responding with appropriate learning experiences". Tomlinson reinforces this idea, stating that when differentiating, "teachers begin where students are" (p. 2). For gifted and talented students this requires recognition of the unique characteristics and behaviours they bring to the classroom, and as a consequence providing an education which Eddie Braggett describes as "different and appropriate" (1994, p. 21). So, differentiation requires teachers to:

• build on past achievements,
• provide opportunities for success, and
• remove barriers to learning (George, 1997).

These principles are supported by the Ministry of Education as it strives to "close the gaps"; thus, allowing each student in New Zealand to come one step closer to his or her potential.
Gathering momentum toward potential means students must have teachers who stride toward differentiation. Tomlinson (1995) states that differentiation "taps into" student readiness levels, interests, and learning profiles. She also presents a dichotomy of what differentiation "is" and "is not" as presented in the chart below.

Differentiation ...
... is	... is not
provision of a variety of ways to explore curriculum content.	making all tasks the same, with adjustments consisting of merely varying difficulty level of questions.
provision of an array of processes for understanding and "owning" information.	marking some students harder than others.
provision of options for demonstrating or exhibiting what has been learnt.	letting those who finish early play games for "enrichment".
	giving students extra problems, extra reports, or "extension" assignments.

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To read further about each of these, check out her article Differentiating Instruction for Advanced Learners in the Mixed-ability Middle School Classroom at http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/diff_instruction.html

Ask yourself, as a teacher, if you practice the underlying principles of differentiation for all students, including the gifted and talented. Contemplate your answers to these questions, adapted from Tomlinson (1999, pp. 9–13):

• Do I focus on the essentials? Do my lessons highlight the essential concepts, principles, and skills of each area of the curriculum? Do my students find subjects of study meaningful and interesting?
• Do I celebrate individual differences? Do I unconditionally "accept students as they are and ... expect them to become all they can be?" (p. 10).
• Do I assess and instruct inseparably? Is assessment used as a tool for growth, rather than for pointing out mistakes?
• Do I modify content (what I teach), process (how I teach), and product (how I measure student learning), according to student readiness? Do I adapt these elements to suit individual student characteristics?
• Do my students engage in "respectful work" (p. 12)? Do I respect readiness, expect growth, match essential understandings to levels of skill, and provide tasks that are "equally interesting, equally important, and equally engaging" (p. 12)?
• Do I facilitate student learning? Do I collaborate with students in their learning? Is my classroom student-centred?
• Do I balance group and individual expectations? Do I allow and encourage each student to be the best he or she can possibly be?
• Do I work flexibly in my classroom? Am I flexible in grouping, outcomes, pacing, materials and resources?

If you answered "yes" to all of these questions, you are a teacher who is responsive to individual learners' needs. Principles of differentiation, like flexible grouping and ongoing assessment, guide your teaching. The content, processes and products of your teaching are determined according to individual readiness, interests, and abilities. And you might not need to read any further ...
But stop a minute and think. What do you provide for the student who completes her work quickly and accurately? The little boy who masters 18 of 20 on the pre-test for your social studies unit? The young girl who answers your questions and questions your answers? The talented youth whose cultural performances leave shivers down your spine? The student who masters tests of achievement well beyond the norm? The young man who writes his own novel, creates a web page, designs a flying machine? While the principles outlined above apply to all students, in all classrooms, as the Ministry of Education (2000) reminds us, "it is important to look at how to make this happen for gifted and talented students" (p. 35). This requires a close examination of our teaching principles and practices. In the education of gifted and talented students we must further consider the principles in the figure below. These are adapted from the work of Joyce VanTassel-Baska (1994), the United States Curriculum Council on the National Leadership Training Institute on th
Patterson (2000) has written an article for parents in which she focuses upon four of these principles: novelty, complexity, acceleration, and depth. Though brief, it may serve as a useful information resource for parents – and teachers! Link to the article via this address http://www.cagifted.org/.

To incorporate these principles into our classrooms does not mean "more of the same" differentiation. It requires a qualitative shift in differentiation – not a quantitative shift. We must examine the following aspects of our day-to-day teaching:

• Content – what?
  Concepts, ideas, facts
• Process – how?
  Methods and strategies
• Product – why?
  Outcomes

Renzulli adds two dimensions to this: the classroom and the teacher (Dinnocenti, 1998).

Roberts and Roberts (2001) state that to plan for differentiation we must:

• identify the core content (curriculum framework);
• assess student knowledge of that content (pre-assessment); and
• identify and plan core and complex content, basic and higher level processes, and a variety of products (differentiation for gifted students) (p. 230).

They sum up these steps in saying that for gifted and talented students "differentiated learning experiences use a variety of products that require the application of higher-level processes to complex content related to the topic and core content" (p. 231).

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Additionally, for our gifted and talented students we must ensure the principles outlined by Maker and Nielson (1995) for each of these aspects of differentiation are adhered to. These principles for content, product, and process differentiation were devised based upon the following criteria:

• They are different from the regular curriculum.
• They are based upon the unique behaviours associated with giftedness.

Maker and Nielson caution that regardless of the existence of these criteria, "... the curriculum must be tailored to fit the needs of each child based upon assessment of that child's characteristics, needs and interests" (1995, p. 10). This checklist of Maker and Nielson's principles of differentiation may be useful:

Content	Process	Product
abstract complex varied organised around concepts study of gifted study of methods of inquiry	discovery open-endedness metacognition higher level thinking processes choice group interaction pacing and variety	variety self-selected appropriately evaluated results of real problem addressed to real audience represents transformation of knowledge via originality

Each of these indicators is further explained by David Farmer in the article, Curriculum Differentiation: An Overview of the Research into the Curriculum Differentiation, at this website http://www.austega.com/gifted/provisions/curdifferent.htm
Dinnocenti further explores these dimensions, alongside the teacher and classroom in her article, Differentiation: Definition and Description for Gifted and Talented at http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~nrcgt/news/spring98/sprng985.html
Willis and Mann's article, Differentiating Instruction Finding Manageable Ways to Meet Individual Needs, also explains these by giving some practical examples at http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/cupdate/2000/1win.html
Strategies for differentiation highlighted in Willis and Mann's article are further discussed on our website in articles related to teaching gifted students in regular classrooms (under construction).
If you use these principles in your classroom or programme for gifted and talented students please send us your ideas to incorporate into this website!

Essentially, differentiation for gifted and talented students only requires the asking and answering the following two questions for every lesson we teach – whether it's in the regular classroom, enrichment programme, holiday camp, or advanced classes:

• How do I ensure all students "know" it? How do I determine that the objectives have been met? How do I assess that the core knowledge, skills, and concepts are obtained by all students?
• What do I provide for those who already have this knowledge, skills, or concepts?
• Do I move beyond the core content?
• Do I allow a different path for learning?
• Do I expect different outcomes of learning?

References, recommended readings, and websites

Berger, S. L. (1991). Differentiating curriculum for gifted students. ERIC Digest #E510. Available from the World Wide Web on: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed342175.html
(This article gives a quick overview of differentiation by examining the principles in relation to curriculum effectiveness. Though some of the references are rather dated, given it is a 1991 publication its foundation is solid and remains relevant today.)
Clark, C., & Callow, R. (1998). Educating able children: Resource issues and processes for teachers. London: David Fulton.
Dinnocenti, S. T. (1998). Differentiation: Definition and description for gifted and talented. National Research Center/Gifted and Talented Newsletter, Spring. Available from the World Wide Web on: http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~nrcgt/news/spring98/sprng985.html
George, D. (1997). The challenge of the able child (2nd ed.). London: David Fulton.
Maker, C. J., & Nielson, A. B. (1995). Teaching models in education of the gifted (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.
Ministry of Education. (2000). Gifted and talented students: Meeting their needs in New Zealand schools. Wellington: Learning Media.
Roberts, J. L., & Roberts, R. A. (2001). Writing units that remove the learning ceiling. In F. A. Karnes & S. M. Bean (Eds.), Methods and materials for teaching the gifted (pp. 213–252). Waco, TX: Prufrock Press.
Rossback, J. (1999, Fall). Inventive differentiation. National Research Center/Gifted and Talented Fall '99 Newsletter. Available from the World Wide Web on: http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~nrcgt/news/fall99/fall993.html
(This article applies the idea of differentiation to the study of inventions. Ideas are given for pre-assessment, as well as web-based resources.)
United States Curriculum Council of the National Leadership Training Institute on the Gifted and Talented. (1986). Programs for the gifted and talented.

VanTassel-Baska, J. (1994). Comprehensive curriculum for gifted learners (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
e Gifted and Talented (1986), and Patterson (2000).

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The Schoolwide Enrichment Model

 A rising tide lifts all the boats.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The Schoolwide Enrichment Model is a flexible program for schools developed by Renzulli based on the integration of his Enrichment Triad Model and the identification of gifted students matched to his Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness.

The idea of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) is to provide better service to all students on the foundation of local conditions.

To achieve this, the model includes several elements:

• Identification based on the Total Talent Portfolio.
• Curriculum Modification Techniques based on Curriculum Compacting.
• Enrichment Learning and Teaching based on Enrichment Activities (Enrichment Triad) and Enrichment Clusters (flexible grouping based on students' and teachers' interests.

The emphasis on the model is on integrated service to the students. The Schoolwide Enrichment Model or parts of it have been successfully implemented in schools around the world.

Further Information

• Learn more about What Is Schoolwide Enrichment? at the Schoolwide Enrichment Model web site.

Sources

• Renzulli, Joseph S. & Reis, Sally M.: The Schoolwide Enrichment Model; Creative Learning Press, Mansfield 1997
• Reis, Sally M. & Burns, Deborah E. & Renzulli, Joseph S.: Curriculum Compacting; Creative Learning Press, Mansfield 1992
• Purcell, Jeanne H. & Renzulli, Joseph S.: Total Talent Portfolio; Creative Learning Press, Mansfield 1998
• Renzulli, Joseph S. & Gentry, Marcia & Reis, Sally M.: Enrichment Clusters, Creative Learning Press, Mansfield 2003

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Total Talent Portfolio

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you will help them become what they are capable of being.

Goethe

The Total Talent Portfolio is the component of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model by which schools can assess strengths, interests, and talents of their students.

By documenting the achievements of students the Total Talent Portfolio allows teachers to provide better service to them. For this, the Total Talent Portfolio differentiates between two kinds of information: status and action information.

Status Information:

• Abilities: The student's natural talent or aptitude for particular content areas.
• Interests: Special topics or activities the student is interested in.
• Style preferences: The styles a student prefers, in terms of instruction, the learning environment, thinking styles, and styles of expression.

Status information documents characteristics of a student by using different kinds of assessments, or what is already known about the student.
Action information

• Regular curriculum: Special talents and achievements a student has showed within normal classroom activities.
• Enrichment learning situations: How a student reacted to different enrichment activities and what activities the student was preoccupied with.
• Works and products: What the student produced within or without the school context.
  

Action information tells about what a student has achieved, or what is newly learnt about the student.
Based on the collected information, teachers can advise students in what kind of activity they best get involved. An additional function of the Total Talent Portfolio by documenting a students achievement is that learning progress becomes visible to the student, too.

Further Information

• Learn more about The Total Talent Portfolio: A Plan for Identifying and Developing Gifts and Talents at the Schoolwide Enrichment Model web page.

Sources

• Renzulli, Joseph S. & Reis, Sally M.: The Schoolwide Enrichment Model - Second Edition; Creative Learning Press, Mansfield 1997, p. 28, 75-88
• Purcell, Jeanne H. & Renzulli, Joseph S.: Total Talent Portfolio; Creative Learning Press, Mansfield 1998

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Curriculum Compacting

 Name it. Prove it. Change it.

Curriculum compacting is an intervention that ensures students don't have to cover areas of learning they have already mastered.

The reasons why curriculum compacting is a popular intervention for gifted students are:

• Some students already know most of the curriculum covered in school.
• Few textbooks provide for the needs gifted students have.
• Compacting frees time for more demanding or more fulfilling activities by reducing redundancy in practising.
• Compacting guarantees educational accountability.

There are several steps in curriculum compacting:

• Decide what a student has to learn (core curriculum).
• Identify students who have probably mastered part of the curriculum already.
• Test, whether this is actually the case.
• Depending on the outcome - how well the student has done on this pretest - take appropriate measures: streamline instruction and either provide alternative work or give the student time for individual studies.
• Document the process for further reference.

Renzulli and Reis developed a special form to document compacting done for individual students: The Compactor

In the first column the teacher names what area of the curriculum could be compacted for a certain student. The second column documents how the teacher made sure, the student already knows the material. The third column contains suggestions for alternative work or describes how instructions for the student could be streamlined.

Further Information

• Learn more about Curriculum Compacting (PDF, 1.8 MByte) and Curriculum Compacting: A Systematic Procedure for Modifying the Curriculum for Above Average Ability Students at the Schoolwide Enrichment Model web site.

Sources

• Renzulli, Joseph S. & Reis, Sally M.: The Schoolwide Enrichment Model - Second Edition; Creative Learning Press, Mansfield 1997, p. 89-113
• Reis, Sally M. & Burns, Deborah E. & Renzulli, Joseph S.: Curriculum Compacting - The Complete Guide to Modifying the Regular Curriculum for High Ability Students; Creative Learning Press, Mansfield 1992

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Type I to III Enrichment

Good, better, best. Never let it rest.
Till your good is better and your better best.

St. Jerome

The Schoolwide Enrichment Model describes three kinds of interdependent types of enrichment. The idea behind enrichment activities in SEM is to let a student achieve success by working in his special area of interest. 

• Type I Enrichment activities are general exploring experiences to get students interested in a particular topic.
• Type II Enrichment activities provide group training, they let students practice the skills and acquire the knowledge they will need to successfully conduct their own activities
• Type III Enrichment activities are individual or small group investigations of real problems based on students interests and skills with the aim to produce a product for real audiences.

To engage in type III activities the following skills (practiced in type II activities) are useful:

• Cognitive training (creativity; creative problem solving and decision making; critical and logical thinking)
• Affective training (see Emotional Intelligence)
• Learning how-to-learn skills (listening; observing; perceiving; note taking and outlining; interviewing and surveying; analyzing and organizing data)
• Using advanced research skills and reference materials (preparing for type III investigations; library skills; community resources)
• Developing written, oral and visual communication skills

Ideally students who conduct type III activities present them to other students to get them also interested in an activity.

Further Information

• Learn more about the Taxonomy of Type II Process Skills at the Schoolwide Enrichment Model web page.

Sources

• Renzulli, Joseph S. & Reis, Sally M.: The Schoolwide Enrichment Model Second Edition; Creative Learning Press, Mansfield 1997, p. 14-15, 115-293

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How can I support SEM?

As parents, you can support SEM financially and with your time.

Contribute to the Excellence Fund

Laurel Mountain's Excellence Fund provides the financial resources that allows us to implement our SEM program. Please refer to the Excellence Fund link in the menu for more information.

Volunteer to Share your Passion

Students learn best when they are engaged and passionate about their work. Consider volunteering some of your time to share your passions with our students. We are always looking for new and interesting ideas to share with them, so fill out a parent resource survey to let us know what you are interested in. Feel free to contact Nicole Levitan directly if you would like to propose an idea for an enrichment cluster or enrichment activity.
You can also volunteer to be an assistant facilitator during an enrichment cluster and simply provide an extra set of helping hands to the teacher or facilitator. This is a great way to see SEM in action while developing your own passions.

Other Ways to Volunteer

Contact your child's teacher to see how you can help out in an E-Slot activity. You can also contact Nicole Levitan to volunteer to be on the SEM Parent Action Committee or inquire how your your individual talents can be best used to serve.

SEM di Laurel Mountain Elementary School (LME)

Schoolwide Enrichment Model

Laurel Mountain Elementary (LME) is an excellent school that cultivates the individual gifts and talents of each and every child through its unique teaching philosophy and Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM). Focusing on each child's strengths, emphasizing self-esteem, and encouraging independent critical thinking are at the core of this philosophy and are reinforced through SEM, which has been lauded nationwide as the model to develop the best and brightest students. The components of LME's teaching philosophy and SEM are:

Curriculum Enhancement:

Teachers are given the tools and flexibility to enhance their classroom activities. This allows them to focus on each child's individual interests, learning styles, and skill sets. The teachers evaluate the curriculum to ensure it is taught efficiently and without redundancy while continuing to incorporate the elements required by the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).

Renzulli Learning System:

A computer-based resource and learning tool designed to put students in touch with engaging, individualized resources, and activities specially chosen for their individual interest areas and learning styles. Renzulli can be used at school and at home year round.

Total Talent Portfolio:

An extensive inventory of your child's academic strengths, talents, and interests that is updated annually and shared with the parent, child, and teachers throughout their education at LME.

Independent Investigative Method (IIM):

A teaching model used in grades K-5 that guides students through the research process by empowering them to combine the required curriculum with vital research skills, choosing from options for integration of state standards, the length of study, and students' grade, skills, and learning styles.

Enrichment Clusters:

Enrichment Clusters provide our students the opportunity to pursue a personal interest in a small group setting and to use them and produce group projects to explore real world applications of the knowledge they are learning in school. Enrichment clusters are non-graded groups of students who share common interests and who come together once a week to explore these interests during a 6-8 week time frame once a year.

E-slots:

When students are not participating in an Enrichment Cluster they are taking part in weekly E-slots (Enrichment Slots). The E-slot is a time when students participate in enrichment activities that range from service projects to student chosen electives to individual research projects based on the students' interests and talents.

Educational Value

The value each child receives from this type of educational environment is two-fold. First, they are receiving a first rate academic experience with the fundamentals stressed as the foundation of their education. Second, they are given a unique opportunity to explore their interests, develop personal identity, advance their knowledge, increase their self-esteem, connect with their community, and gain an understanding of how the world around them works.
The value for the parent is also quite signifi cant. Parents now have a variety of resources and tools to understand and motivate their child. Knowing their child's interests and preferred learning styles provides a wonderful framework to encourage endless learning opportunities together.

PROGRAM DI USM

Seramai 40 orang pelajar Ting. 4 telah menyertai Program  Future Engineering Qolloqium di Kampus Kejuruteraan USM.pada 26 Januari 2011
Mereka telah didedahkan dengan pelbagai maklumat mengenai kejuruteraan , kerjaya dan bidang-bidang kejuruteraan.
Lawatan ke Pusat -Pusat Pengajian Kejurutraan telah menambah minat pelajar -pelajar dalam bidang kejuruteraan.

ENRICHMENT CLUSTERS

at Dillard Drive Middle School

1. Who? What? When? Where?

Students will be learning about the people who shaped the 20 th century, geography around the

world, world cultures and an art lesson along with stimulating discussions. Come have fun and learn!

2. Science Through Board Games

Students will experience different scientific concepts and acquire knowledge through the use of

pre-existing board games. They will then choose their own topic, research information, and design

and develop their own board game to share with peers.

3. SuperStars III – Uranus (6 th grade only)

Students will be focusing on math enrichment in this cluster. They will soar into outer space with

problem solving, logical thinking, and critical thinking.

4. Arts and Crafts

Students will use mathematical skills to create and design various arts and crafts.

5. Animations and Illustrations

This class will be an introduction to drawing and animation. We will learn how to draw simple and

complex objects, animals, and people. We will learn to draw storyboards and comic books. Students

will learn how to film and create a claymation and animated film. Students will learn to express

themselves more accurately with their artwork and understand how animation and animated movies

are made.

6. Sports Statistics

Students will apply math skills by using sports statistics to analyze and predict sporting outcomes.

Students will create spreadsheets and databases and maybe fantasy teams based upon computer

availability.

7. Science Adventures

Students will be engaged in hands on science experiments. Students will use the scientific method:

State the question, Collect Information, Form a Hypothesis, Test the hypothesis, Observe Record

and Study Data, and Draw a conclusion.

8. Poetry Corner

Students will be creating their own book of poetry. They will explore haiku, narrative, lyric,

concrete poems and their characteristics. Next, they will create a collection of poems with

illustrations and bind them into a publishable book. Come explore the wonders of the poetic genre.

9. Green Team

The Green Team will work to make Dillard Drive Middle School a more environmentally friendly

environment. Our ultimate goal is to implement and maintain a recycling program at DDMS. Members

of this cluster will research and plan ways to propel Dillard Drive into the green, and educate our

school on how to reduce, reuse, and recycle our waste, as well as how to become good stewards of

our environment.

10. Geometric Design

In geometric design, students will use a compass and a straightedge to construct geometric designs.

Students will use the concept of symmetry to create quilt designs and stained glass windows.

Students will also explore the art of line designs.

11. Yoga

Students will explore the benefits of yoga through reading and practice. Yoga poses and breathing

exercises will be developed to promote: physical strength and flexibility, concentration, focus and

attention, inner strength and body awareness, confidence and self-esteem, relaxation and selfcontrol,

and a feeling of well-being and respect for others.

12. Focus on Fashion

Students will travel the 20th century through the interesting world of fashion. We will look at

the different trends of each era and discuss why they became so popular. In this class, we will

investigate to find out which trends continue to resurface and why others tend to fade out quickly.

Towards the end of this course, students will each research a famous designer. They will then

create a presentation to share with the class.

13. Art of Meditation – A Calmer Self

Students will learn the practice of meditation to develop a permanent source of tranquility, a

source of inner peace, a source of relaxation for the mind and body as well as harmony between the

mind, body and spirit.

14. Graphic Arts

Students will learn how to write in cursive, basic calligraphy and make cut paper letters for signs

and banners. Use of guidelines will be taught as well as symmetry in lettering and design. Students

who like to write, create scrapbooks, or create neat visual presentations without the use of

computers will appreciate this class.

SEM KESELURUHAN NYA

SEM DI MRSM TRANSKRIAN

PENGENALAN
Pelajar-pelajar hari ini bakal mewarisi satu era pembangunan yang dipenuhi pelbagai persaingan dan kemajuan teknologi canggih yang mencabar. Demi melengkapkan diri mereka dengan kemahiran dan ketahanan mental, program penggayaan ini diwujudkan dengan hasrat ia dapat memperkembangkan potensi pelajar secara terbeza dan bersepadu.
Program penggayaan yang dirancang adalah berpandukan kepada Schoolwide Enrichment Model yang telah diperkenalkan oleh Joseph S.Renzulli dan Sally M.Reis, dan diubahsuai mengikut keadaan di MRSM. Ia memberi tumpuan kepada tiga jenis program penggayaan yang bermula dari Aktiviti Type I, Type II dan Type III sehinggalah ke peringkat akhir iaitu PESTA PENGKAYAAN TYPE III  Penggayaan Type I dan Type II adalah bertujuan untuk menimbulkan rasa ingin tahu (inquiry) dan meningkatkan lagi minat dalam diri seseorang pelajar mengenai sesuatu isu manakala penggayaan Type III bertumpu kepada penyelesaian masalah sebenar.
Program Kemahiran Penyelidikan Saintifik yang diajarkan dalam Program KIKS untuk pelajar Ting. 4 di MRSM Transkrian merupakan salah satu elemen Kemahiran Akademik yang diajar secara formal dalam semester pertama di Tingkatan 4 dan aplikasinya berterusan sehingga pelajar membuat pembentangan hasil kajian di semester ke-2 semasa Pesta Pengkayaan SEM Type III dalam minggu aktiviti semester 2

SEM Type  1

 Melahirkan pelajar yang berketerampilan dan berfikir secara intelek, multiple intelligences dan untuk mengembangkan potensi secara bersepadu dan khusus.
Tujuan utama aktiviti ini adalah untuk mencetuskan minat yang mendalam di kalangan pelajar kepada bidang-bidang yang telah diselaraskan oleh JK SEM. Di antara aktiviti yang boleh diadakan adalah seperti ceramah, lawatan, tayangan video dan Pesta Type III sesi sebelumnya (untuk pelajar Tingkatan 1 dan 2). Pada akhirnya pelajar akan memilih satu bidang yang diminatinya untuk diperkembangkan sebagai kajian.

SEM Type II
Bertujuan
Melatih kemahiran kognitif, Kemahiraran Amalan Belajar dan melatih kemahiran kepimpinan dan komunikasi.
Tujuan aktiviti ini adalah untuk memberikan kemahiran-kemahiran asas yang diperlukan oleh pelajar untuk memperkembangkan minatnya. Di antara kemahiran yang diberikan secara sengaja adalah melalui :-
1. Kursus Kemahiran Berfikir (KKB)
Kursus ini akan memberikan pendedahan dan latihan kepada pelajar untuk mendapat kemahiran dalam kaedah berfikir secara meluas, kreatif, analisis, inovatif, kritis dan lain-lain.
2. Kursus Amalan Belajar (KAB)
Kursus ini akan memberikan pendedahan dan latihan kepada pelajar untuk mendapat kemahiran dalam kaedah belajar seperti proses mencari maklumat melalui pembacaan, menyediakan nota, mengurus masa dan lain-lain lagi.
3. Kursus Asas Kepimpinan (KAK)
Kursus ini memberikan pendedahan dan latihan kepada pelajar dalam aspek kepimpinan. Banyak perkara yang diperlukan pelajar seperti kebolehan membuat keputusan, menentukan sasaran, berkomunikasi dan lain-lain diberikan melalui kursus ini.
Di MRSM Transkrian , kursus-kursus ini diberikan pada semester pertama iaitu Tingkatan 1 melalui Kursus Asas Tingkatan 1 (KAT 1) dan Tingkatan 4 melalui KIKS (Kemahiran Insaniah dan Kemahiran Subjek).

 SEM Type III

Objektif
Menghasilkan sesuatu yang baru (inovasi atau rekacipta) bagi menyelesaikan sesuatu masalah.
Aktiviti ini merupakan gerak kerja pelajar dalam kumpulannya untuk mengembangkan minat mereka sama ada dengan menjalankan penyelidikan, membina reka cipta atau apa-apa yang diluluskan oleh Jawatankuasa SEM setelah melakukan pendaftaran projek. Guru penasihat memainkan peranan penting untuk mengawal selia perjalanan aktiviti kumpulan masing-masing.
Perkembangan setiap kumpulan akan dipantau oleh Jawatankuasa SEM untuk menentukan tahap yang telah dicapai mereka.

PESTA Pengkayaan Type 3

Aktiviti ini merupakan kemuncak kerja pelajar di mana pada masa ini pelajar akan mempamerkan hasil kerja mereka kepada urusetia penilai, kumpulan sasaran ataupun pengunjung. Pesta Type III ini juga merupakan ruang untuk mencetuskan minat dan idea kepada pelajar baru.

Dry Ice Fun - Cool Science Experiments

TAKLIMAT SEM KEPADA PELAJAR MRSM TRANSKRIAN

Tarikh : 13 Jan 2011

Masa: 12.00-1.00 tgh

Tempat: Dewan Ibnu Sina

APA ITU SEM

Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) telah dilaksanakan di Maktab Rendah Sains MARA (MRSM) sejak tahun 1988. MRSM Kulim melaksanakan SEM sebelum dipindahkan ke MRSM Taiping pada tahun 1991.

SEM pada asalnya digubal untuk Program Pendidikan Pintar Cerdas kemudian dikembangkan dan digunakan di institusi pendidikan sebagai inovasi untuk meningkatkan pencapaian di bawah ‘school improvement program’.

Pelaksanaan SEM di MRSM adalah satu inovasi dalam sistem pendidikan di Malaysia untuk memenuhi keperluan pelajar pintar cerdas akademik dengan menyediakan persekitaran persekolahan yang kondusif dan program pendidikan yang mencabar.

Pelajar pintar cerdas dapat menghabiskan kerja mereka dengan cepat. Mereka perlu diberi latihan tambahan untuk mengelakkan mereka bosan dalam kelas ,kaedah compacting dan diffrentation diamalkan dalam proses P & P Mengikut Renzulli, kanak- kanak cacat disediakan program khas bagi menghadapi kesukaran belajar. Mengapa pula kita tiada program untuk pelajar yang pintar cerdas. Pelaksanaan  SEM  menawarkan pelbagai perkhidmatan kepada pelajar yang membolehkan mereka mengenalpasti minat dan seterusnya memperkembangkannya melalui enrichment triad dengan pengalaman Pengkayaan Type 1, Pengkayaan Type 2 dan Pengkayaan Type 3