2. What is peculiar about these numbers?

3. “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” BILL BEATTIE

4. For Primary Enrichment Program
PEP is an acronym
For Primary Enrichment Program

5. Information about PEP
PEP is a pullout program in the Issaquah School District for highly-capable gifted students in grades K-2.
PEP is available at each elementary school in the district.
First and Second grade students receive an hour of PEP each week.
Kindergarten receives 30 minutes each week.
Current Kindergarten students will be screened in October in their classroom.
All students will be tested again in the spring of Second Grade for qualification into the SAGE program in 3rd, 4th
and 5th grades.
PEP students will remain in the program, but will be tested to determine how they will receive services.

6. Special Approach to Gifted Education
SAGE is an acronym
For
Special Approach to Gifted Education

7. Information about SAGE
SAGE is a program in Issaquah School District for the most highly-capable students in grades 3-5.
SAGE is available at each elementary school in the district.
Students typically qualify in the spring of their second grade year, begin the program in the fall of third grade, and continue through 5th grade. Once a student qualifies for SAGE, they remain in the HCAP program through twelfth grade.
SAGE Math meets once each week for two hours. In those two hours, students work on a variety of activities to provide enrichment and challenge in the area of math. This may be through the use of science or technology.

8. Ann Swiftney Creekside Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday (425) 837-5239
18 years Classroom Teacher
3 years Administrator
1 year Human Resources
PEP/SAGE ???

9. PEP/SAGE Goals and Objectives
Goal 1: Intellectual/Academics
To enrich and expand each student’s intellectual horizons.
To encourage each student to take responsibility for his/her learning.
To make learning a life-long habit.
Objectives:
The student will learn and practice:
Problem solving strategies
Information processing skills: classifying, inferring, and predicting;
Creative thinking skills: fluency, flexibility, elaboration, and originality;
Thinking behaviors: risk-taking, goal-setting, decision making, persistence, inquisitiveness, and self-evaluation.

10. SAGE Goals and Objectives
Goal 2: Social/Emotional
To provide a safe environment for gifted students to interact on a regular basis with others who have similar abilities and interests.
Objectives:
Confidence, ownership, and independence
Work cooperatively in groups, collaborate and work independently
Produce quality work reflecting excellence, precision, thoroughness, creative innovation, and best effort
Responsibility

13. In PEP and SAGE Math, we focus more on the way students THINK than the content. The units we study are a means for practicing thinking skills, problem solving and creativity.

14. Probable Units of Study
1st Grade
2nd Grade
Problem Solving
Liquid Explorations Discovering Density Oobleck Engineering
Who Stole Mr. Bear?
Fingerprinting Chromatography Secret Formulas
Engineering

15. Probable Units of Study
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade
Problem Solving
Lego WeDo
Scratch
Bubbleology
Topology or Polyhedraville
Paper Towel Testing
EV3 Basics Inventions or Capsela
Dry Ice
Inventions
Lego EV3
Skateboard Science Hands On Engineering

19. Assessments and Evaluations
Problem Solving Assessments
District—October and March
Classroom—Bi-monthly
Informal—Weekly
Self-Assessments
March
June
Reflection
End of Unit
Before Self-Assessments

20. What is this?

22. SAGE Class Requirements
Make Up Work Guidelines
Basically, students are responsible for any learning they miss while at SAGE.
2. Communicate with the classroom teacher and with me if any problem arises.
SAGE Class Requirements
Be in class every week.
Think deeply.
Collaborate.
Persist.

23. A million thanks to the Issaquah Schools Foundation for the very generous grant they provide each year. We have been able to purchase 40 EV3 MindStorms kits to be used with the 5th grade SAGE students in the district. We have also received LEGO Wedo kits and LEGO More To Math kits.We appreciate their ongoing support of gifted education in the Issaquah School District.

24. Contact Information
Ann Swiftney
I am at Creekside on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday
(425)
is the best way to contact me…