<html><body><div>Mark,<br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>Colleen Boyle, PhD<br>Gifted Coordinator and Educational Consultant<br>OAGC Secretary and Teacher Evaluation Committee Leader<br></div><div><br>On Aug 16, 2013, at 11:10 AM, giftedtchr@aol.com wrote:<br><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The other teacher of the gifted and I see superior cognitively identified students in a pullout program.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We are NOT linked to any of the students.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;">So..... We're told that for the “other 50%” of our evaluation, we need to write Student Learning Objectives.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We have found one written specifically for 3-5 grade gifted students addressing research skills.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We can use that after modifying it to fit our initial baseline data.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br> 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.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The other grading periods/products will be:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Language Arts – Publishing a Short Story</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Science – PBL Involving Logic Reasoning Presentation Skills & CSI style data testing</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Math – TBD</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;">So then.................. should we have a SLO for each grading period?<br> Are there already any SLOs created for gifted students doing things like those above?<br> (Other than the one already on the ODE website?<br> What are others in a similar program doing for SLOs?</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Thanks for your help,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Mark</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></div></div><div class="_stretch">_______________________________________________<br> Ohiogift mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" data-mce-href="mailto:Ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">Ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br> <a href="https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/ohiogift" data-mce-href="https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/ohiogift">https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/ohiogift</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>