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Saint Patrick's Day

St Patrick's Day is a global celebration of Irish culture on or around March 17. It particularly remembers St Patrick, one of Ireland's patron saints, who ministered Christianity in Ireland during the fifth century.


The Origins of St. Patrick's Day. St. Patrick's Day celebrates the Roman Catholic feast day of the patron saint of Ireland. St. Patrick died on March 17, 461.


Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. He was a Christian missionary given credited with converting Ireland to Christianity in the AD 400s. So many legends surround his life that the truth is not easily found. St Patrick was not actually Irish.


Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, "the Day of the Festival of Patrick"), is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick ( c. AD 385–461), the foremost patron saint of Ireland.

Pics4Learning

Pics4Learning is a curated image library that is safe and free for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and illustrations for classroom projects, websites, videos, portfolios, or any other projects in an educational setting.

https://www.pics4learning.com

Study Stack

There is a free app on the internet called Study Stack. It's free too! StudyStack helps students prepare for a number of exams.  They can search through dozens of pre-built flashcard sets or create their own from this website.  Review activities include crossword puzzles, hangman, and other games.

Study Stack

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

On behalf of everyone here at the Jefferson County Educational Service Center, we would like to send our best wishes for a joyous Thanksgiving with your loved ones and friends.

Brand New Year!!

Our GERD meetings are as follows:      

September 20

October 18

November 18

February 21  (if ANY district has a snow day - date will be moved to February 28. )

March 14  (if ANY district has a snow day - date will be moved to March 21.)

Motto for this year: "Creativity is Intelligence Having Fun"  Albert Einstein

Summer!

We hope you have an enjoyable summer! Relax and rejuvenate over these three months! We are making plans for next school year for enjoyable and educational meetings to ensure you are ready for how you instruct your gifted population.

Linda and Patty

Inspirational Teacher Quotes

"Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you  know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers." - Richard Bach

" Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."  - Benjamin Franklin

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to a waken joy in creative expression and knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"The greatest sign of a success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if  I did not exist."  --Maria Montessori.

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." - John Cotton Dana

Resources for Educators

www.nagc.org/resources

There is a plethora of resources on this website! Check them out at your earliest convenience!

Happy New Year!!

Resources for Educators

To appropriately identify, develop, and nurture individual talent, educators at every level -- from the classroom to the district office -- must understand the strategies, practices, and tools. Once understood, you need up-to-date information, analysis of the latest education research, and access to professional development opportunities and resources. That's where NAGC comes in! Don't we want every student to reach their highest potential? 

Serving High-Ability Learners

• Gifted Education Practices

Gifted education strategies make a meaningful difference for high-ability students. Learn more about what gifted education in the classroom looks like.

• Pre-K to Grade 12 Gifted Programming Standards

Classroom teachers are the primary agent for identifying and serving gifted and talented students in our nation's schools. Read and learn more about the programming standards today.

• Professional Development   

NAGC leads the way for targeted and relevant education and training, offering webinars with national experts, the annual convention with hundreds of sessions in a wide variety of themes, and connections through Networks.

• Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and Gifted Students.

The CCSS and NGSS call for general education teachers to recognize and address student learning differences, and incorporate rigorous content and application of knowledge through higher-order thinking skills, but the nature of advanced work beyond the standards is not discussed.

• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

STEM issues remain in the forefront of the discussion of U.S. competitiveness and the role of K-12 education in ensuring a pipeline of advanced talent.

Exploring NAGC Publications for Educators

• Teaching for High Potential

THP is a quarterly publication designed with educators in mind. Each issue is filled with practical guidance and classroom-based materials to help you better understand and challenge your high-potential students. Scan through the library of THP articles and columns organized by topic and theme. Members have access to the entire archive of THP issues.

• The Teacher's Corner

This monthly column is found in the member e-newsletter Compass Points and provides an "In The Trenches" focus suggesting books, websites, professional papers, and other relevant resources to use in the classroom or for your own professional development and enjoyment.

• Connecting for High Potential

Written by and for teachers and parents, Connecting for High Potential provides practical advice for parents, teachers, and community members to work together to support high-ability students.

• The NAGC Online Store

View the best selection of books and other materials for teachers seeking to help students reach their full potential. (Members receive generous discounts.)

esource designed to provide practical advice for parents, teachers, and community members to work together to support high-ability students. - See more at: http://nagc.org.442elmp01.blackmesh.com/resources-publications/nagc-publications#sthash.ZvJLuF7j.dpuf

Supporting Families
Gifted students don't have an on/off switch! Share trusted advice and resources with your students' families that help them support their child outside the classroom.

Building your Career

Looking for a new position in the field of gifted and talented? The NAGC Career Center offers access to the best employers and jobs in the profession.  

Merry Christmas!!

We Are Teachers Website

25 Tips, Tricks and Techniques From Master Teachers

 

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Have a very Merry Christmas!

Happy Thanksgiving!

On behalf of everyone here at the Jefferson County Educational Service Center, we would like to send our best wishes for a joyous Thanksgiving with your loved ones and friends.

The Teacher's Corner

The Teacher's Corner is a wonderful website! Check it out! Look for plenty of November ideas!!

Five apps to help educators incorporate augmented reality

At the Augmented Reality Development Lab (ARDL), from virtual reality developer Digital Tech Frontier, lets users display relevant information at the appropriate time and location during an AR experience, which results in virtual 3-D objects appearing in the real world.

Students and teachers look through a viewing device or at a monitor to see virtual objects such as planets, volcanoes, the human heart, or dinosaurs embedded within their real-world environment—and they can interact with and manipulate those objects to receive associated information.

Five apps to help educators incorporate augmented reality:

1. GeoGuesser: Using a phone, tablet or computer, a player is placed in a spot anywhere in the world using Google Maps. Exploring and looking for clues such as geographic signs, landmarks, and climate, the player has to guess where they are.

2. Elements 4D: Elements 4D uses augmented reality to help students explore elements and chemical reactions. To use the app, first print special element blocks on standard letter-size paper in your classroom. Cut the shapes out, follow the instructions to fold them into cubes, and glue them together to hold them in place. Once the blocks are ready, you can hold them in front of your device camera so the elements they represent can be viewed in augmented reality.

3. Quiver Apps: Students color on printed pages, then view their drawing through a phone via the app. Drawings will come to life and can be paired with creative writing assignments or other approaches to engage students.

4. Fetch! Lunch Rush: In this Augmented Reality, multi-player game, you need to keep up with lunch orders from Ruff’s movie crew. The challenge is keeping track of how many pieces of sushi everyone wants.

5. ZooBurst: ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone create an augmented reality 3D pop-up book.

About the Author: 

Laura Devaney

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Laura Devaney is the Director of News for eSchool Media. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. When she isn't wrangling her two children, Laura enjoys running, photography, home improvement, and rooting for the Terps. Find Laura on Twitter: @eSN_Laura http://twitter.com/eSN_Laura

The Unique Inner Lives of Gifted Children - Article

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Article: The Unique Inner Lives of Gifted Children

An article describing the characteristics that differentiate gifted individuals and discussing how those characteristics affect children’s educational needs.  By Linda Silverman, an expert on giftedness and testing, and speaker at Helios’ Fall 2011 event, “The Unique Inner Lives of Gifted Children:  What Educators, Parents, and Therapists Should Know. Download this article.

Author Bio:  Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist.  She directs the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development, and its subsidiary, the Gifted Development Center (www.gifteddevelopment.com) in Denver, Colorado. Over 6,000 children have been assessed at the Gifted Development Center in the last 32 years.  She also founded Visual-Spatial Resource (www.visualspatial.org).  Her Ph.D. is in educational psychology and special education from the University of Southern California.  For nine years, she served on the faculty of the University of Denver in counseling psychology and gifted education.  She co-chaired the NAGC Task Force on IQ Interpretation, during which research was conducted leading to extended norms on the WISC-IV.  She has been studying the psychology and education of the gifted since 1961 and has written over 300 articles, chapters and books, including Counseling the Gifted and Talented, Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner and Advanced Development:  A Collection of Works on Gifted Adults.

Good Resources

20 Educational Resources for new teachers:

1. Teachers Pay Teachers: This site offers free resources along with paid content–in fact, sellers are required to offer free materials alongside their fee-based materials. “There are tons of free materials,” Holden said.

2. Really Good Stuff: This includes educational materials as well as supplies like furniture, filing cabinets, and sticky notes.

3. Amazon, eBay, and other sites for paid content: These sites offer fee-based educational resources and materials. Materials can be shipped directly and these sites often work best for “physical products” for the classroom, Holden said.

4. Google: A simple Google search is great, Holden said, because educators can search through all the various categories–images, videos, books, and apps. A Google image search can lead searchers directly to resources and are often linked to Pinterest accounts. “The great thing about the [Google] ‘videos’ search is that ALL of the videos are free,” Holden said. Copying the embed code for a video lets educators paste the video into their websites, blogs, or LMS.

5. Share My Lesson: Free lesson plans for teachers, organized by grade, subject, and standard. The site also offers professional learning resources.

6. Scholastic: Offers resources, tools, teaching strategies, and student activities.

7. Discovery: Resources organized by grade level and topic, with a “Teacher Picks” resource category, too.

8. Laura Candler Educational Resources: The creator is an educator who offers her own resources on the site, but also curates other content for use.

9. Indiana University – Bloomington: Resources organized by topics such as active learning, assessments, and collaboration.

10. TES: A research page for all grade levels, including whole-school and students with special needs, organized by topic.

11. Web Anywhere: Teacher resources split into primary and secondary categories, searchable by subject. This site offers some resources from the UK.

12. SMART Exchange: Offers searchable and editable SMART Board activities created by teachers.

13. Read Write Think: Not only does the site have activities for educators to use with students, but the site also offers professional development topics

14. National Geographic: This site offers lots of videos, which often come with companion documents such as writing prompts.

15. ArtsEdge: This site from The Kennedy Center offers a “lesson finder” to help align resources to different art topics.

16. Education.com: Searchable site organized by resource and age/grade.

17. We Are Teachers: This site offers lessons and materials, tips for grant writing, a blog list, and popular education topics.

18. Kids.gov: A federal site for free educational resources.

19. Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: Another federal site. Though it retired in 2015, it offers links to other federal resources.

20. Education World: This site offers news, blogs, teacher materials, and more.

Author: Laura Devaney is the Director of News for eSchool Media

Discussion Forum Opportunity

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In search of a community to discuss all things gifted? Register for the Gifted Issues Discussion Forum and become a part of one of the most active gifted education bulletin boards! With more than 9,000 registered members, it's a great place to share and interact with others about a wealth of gifted topics.