For member districts, the Lake County Educational Service Center provides leadership, consultation and support for the design, implementation, evaluation and coordination of district gifted and talented services and programs through a Gifted Coordinator.

Our mission is to promote and support districts in providing a continuum of high quality services for gifted and talented students throughout their K-12 educational experience.

WE WILL PROVIDE THIS SUPPORT THROUGH THE FOLLOWING PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:

• Targeted professional development in areas of identified need which may include:
  • Characteristics and Identification of gifted students (including underrepresented populations)
  • Best practices for instruction of gifted / talented students
  • Federal and State Legislation
  • Data driven instruction
  • Strategies for curriculum differentiation
• Review and revision of policy and procedures (Identification, Service, Acceleration)
• Data analysis for program and instructional planning
• Development of criteria for service and service options based on district gifted population and their needs
• Curriculum development and materials selection
• Assistance with EMIS data entry and annual gifted reports for ODE

Lake County Gifted Blog

2007-2008 GIFTED DEPARTMENT

• Development of a learning community for teachers of gifted (See our blog link)
• Development of local opportunities for above level assessment through Midwest Academic Talent Search
• Biotechnology Module and extensions for 5^th grade gifted in collaboration with Porter Science Center
• Provision of web resources for teachers of gifted
• Quarterly Gifted e-newsletter for administrators and teachers
  • Lake County Administrators e-update
    (10/22/2007)

For more information contact:
Patricia Kloosterman
Phone: (440) 350-2563, Ext. 723
E-Mail: lc_kloosterm@lgca.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS Gifted Licensure Cohort [PDF] Get an endorsement for gifted education through CSU. To enroll in the courses offered at LaMuth Middle School contact Gifted Conferences 2008 OAGC Teacher Academy April 14-15, 2008  COMPETITIONS / OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS Ohio Leadership Institutes Information on 2008 programs will be posted when available Ohio Summer Honors Institutes Summer  programs for students entering grades 10 or 11 Ohio Future Problem Solvers Power of the Pen - Ohio Destination Imagination Model UN Math League Thespian Playworks

WAYS TO PROVIDE ENRICHMENT AND EXTEND CURRICULUM Curriculum differentiation Learning Centers Competitions (all content areas) (Math League, Power of the Pen, Robotics, etc.) Summer Honors Institute and Leadership Institutes Martin W. Essex School for the Gifted Midwest Talent Search Destination Imagination Model United Nations (Jr. High and Sr. High) GIFTED ORGANIZATIONS Ohio Association for Gifted Children Midwest Academic Talent Search National Association of Gifted Children National Research Center for Gifted ODE Gifted Acceleration Policy and Testing Rules for Accelerated Students ARTICLES / RESEARCH Research Synthesis on Types of Gifted Service Effectiveness of service delivery models A Nation Decieved - Volumes I & II  50 years of research on Acceleration. A basis for Ohio’s Acceleration Policy AP Central Resources for AP teachers Twice Exceptional Newsletter  A newsletter focusing on issues of gifted children with learning difficulties.

GIFTED CURRICULUM LINKS

• Lake County Gifted blog
  Anyone can view the posts. You must be invited to participate. Please send an email to lc_kloosterm@lgca.org if you would like to be invited to post to the website.
  
• Center for Gifted Education - Resources
  Internet curriculum resources for Language Arts, Science, Math, Technology, and Social Studies. Also contains links for Math contests and Math Games.
  
• College of William & Mary 
  Teaching Models and Curriculum materials
  
• Socratic Teaching 
  Center for Critical Thinking. Resources, articles and lessons