[Ohiogift] SLO's for Gifted - What are you using

[Colleen Boyle, PhD]

Mark,

OAGC has a team working on SLOs for gifted specialists. (The team actually created the one on ODE's site).  I know a second is going to be posted very soon with others to follow.  Also, check out the last OAGC Review for an article on SLO's, and I will be presenting on that at the fall conference. 

In terms of length of your SLO, it is my understanding that an SLO should last the duration of your course as it falls within the SLO timeframe (so starting at the beginning but ending in April, or so, for a year long class).  If it is the same group of students all year in the class, then you would not have four separate SLOs.  Also, it is my understanding that the content of the SLO should not be the same as what is measured by another teacher's SLO or value-added for those same students.  So, since those students'  grade level language arts standards are part of their home teacher's value added, you won't include them as part of your SLO. 

My advice would be to have two SLOs - maybe one for literacy across the curriculum (a model should be posted soon, I hope) and one for problem solving, since those areas can apply across all of your units/quarterly focal points over the course of the year.  But, I am interested to read what others suggest on this.

Colleen Boyle, PhD
Gifted Coordinator and Educational Consultant
OAGC Secretary and Teacher Evaluation Committee Leader

On Aug 16, 2013, at 11:10 AM, giftedtchr at aol.com wrote:

> The other teacher of the gifted and I see superior cognitively identified students in a pullout program.
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> We are NOT linked to any of the students.
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> So..... We're told that for the “other 50%” of our evaluation, we need to write Student Learning Objectives.
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> We have found one written specifically for 3-5 grade gifted students addressing research skills.
> We can use that after modifying it to fit our initial baseline data.
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> OK that takes care of one grading period where we will emphasize social studies and the product will be a paper or something else something related to their research.
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> The other grading periods/products will be:
> Language Arts – Publishing a Short Story
> Science – PBL Involving Logic Reasoning Presentation Skills & CSI style data testing
> Math – TBD
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> So then.................. should we have a SLO for each grading period?
> Are there already any SLOs created for gifted students doing things like those above?
> (Other than the one already on the ODE website?
> What are others in a similar program doing for SLOs?
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> Thanks for your help,
> Mark
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