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NAGC 58th Annual Convention & Exhibition
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A Community Collaborates: Uniting Students, Teachers, and Community Leaders in Project Based Learning
Track : Curriculum Studies
Program Code: 720
Date: Friday, November 4, 2011
Time: 11:45 AM to 12:30 PM  EST
Room: Marlborough A
CO-PRESENTER (S):
Sally Bonin, Teacher of the Gifted, Iberia Parish School Board
Germaine Comeaux, Teacher of the Gifted, Iberia Parish School Board
Beth Demahy, Teacher, Iberia Parish School Board
Karen DeRouen, Coordinator of Gifted, Iberia Parish School Board
NAGCFACULTY (S):
Sally Bonin, Teacher of the Gifted, Iberia Parish School Board
Germaine Comeaux, Teacher of the Gifted, Iberia Parish School Board
Beth Demahy, Teacher, Iberia Parish School Board
Karen DeRouen, Coordinator of Gifted, Iberia Parish School Board
Margaret Simon, Teacher, Iberia Parish School Board
PRESENTER :
Margaret Simon, Teacher, Iberia Parish School Board
Description
Eight teachers, 14 elementary schools, one to five sixth graders at each: What's a gifted teacher to do? Participants learn how a frustrated gifted department used creative problem solving to unify community leaders, school employees, and 36 isolated students across a district in a year-long, interdisciplinary, project-based collaboration. Loosely based on Renzulli's Schoolwide Enrichment Model, merged with lessons from Box City, this project motivated gifted students, piqued their interest in local history, and developed processes of city growth and management. Teacher guided and student-driven, the collaboration grew to include projects focusing on service, community, and product presentation.


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