One-Day GATE

Teachers

Mrs. Barrios

 Mrs. Girardi
 Mrs.Tarango


Guidelines

The One-Day Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) Program at Bessie Owens Primary School provides a unique opportunity for GATE qualified students to interact with peers and receive specialized GATE instruction from California Association of the Gifted (C.A.G.) trained teachers.

Literature describing the ideal curriculum for gifted learners refers to the need for thematic, differentiated, interdisciplinary units of study. These units focus on broad-based issues, problems, and global themes.

The universal themes are:
Change
Conflict
Exploration
Force
Order
Patterns
Power
Structure
Systems
and Relationships
The main goal of our One-Day GATE Program is to provide differentiated learning opportunities which will assist students in becoming successful learners.  Exploration and expression of creativity, and specific teaching and learning strategies are emphasized. The importance of the scholarly attributes enable gifted students to connect and apply knowledge within, among, and across the disciplines, as well as to all learning experiences.

Scholarly Attributes

Coming to school prepared
Asking meaningful questions
Taking time to ponder
Exercising your intellect
Looking with different points-of-view
Using varied resources
Setting goals
Collecting educational materials
Being academically humble
Taking intellectual risks
Thinking "outside the box"
Always doing professional work
Taking pride in your work

Goals of the Scholars Program:

  • To provide learners with a system to organize information from various disciplines.
  • To promote greater retention of subject matter as students make connections within, among, and scross the disciplines.
  • To connect this learning to ALL learning experiences, not just in the GATE classroom.
  • To apply these concepts at the learner's home school.
  • To work towards becoming a scholar.


Program Components:

Scholarly Attributes

Universal Themes
(Systems, Patterns, Relationships)

Learning Centers
(Focusing on Depth and Complexity)

Independent Study
(Classroom and Computer Lab)

Academic Self-Discipline
(Organizing, Goal-Setting, Self-Evaluation)

Language of the Discipline




Curricular Focus:

Logic-Based Math
Science
Spanish
Geography/Current Events
Language Arts
Computer Technology
Fine Arts

Individual and Group Research Projects:

Presentations
(Oral Reports Incorporating Visual, PowerPoint, and Digital Movies)

Technology Skills and Application
(web page design, Web based projects, Multimedia design and presentation with video and digital support)

Student Newspaper
(assisted by Bakersfield Californian employees)

Study Trips with Study Booklets
(includes predictions, research, artwork, and reflections)

Science
All science units are based on the California State Standards.
A few examples of these units are:
Oceanography
Matter and Energy
Magnetism
Geology
Weather
Flight
Botany
Astronomy
Ecosystems
Flight
(Bernoulli's Principle, birds, kites, hot air balloons, and rockets)

Animals
(Scientific classification, dissection, entomology, ornithology)

Science Mystery
(Experiment, Collect & analyze data, make predictions, observations and conclusions)

Fine Art
(study of famous artists and composers and use of variety of media and methods in artwork)

Centers
("Construction Zone"- students work independently to read instructions, develop blueprints, construct models, make connections to a universal theme, and self evaluate)

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