my personal experience with
schoolwide enrichment model
During the Spring of 2013, I had the great opportunity to spend some time doing a practicum and substitute teaching at J.J. Harris Elementary School in Athens, Georgia. J.J. Harris is a gifted charter school that committed itself to using the Schoolwide Enrichment Model before the building was built or the staff was hired. All of the teachers at J.J. Harris accepted their teaching positions with the understanding that they would be active participants of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model. In addition, teachers are encouraged to use creativity and teach creative thinking in their classrooms. A form of curriculum compacting is also used at J.J. Harris. Students in the upper grades who have mastered grade-level math concepts are pulled out of their regular classroom during math to work with one of the gifted teachers on advanced math. These students, the majority of whom are minorities coming from lower income households, will enter middle school with advanced math instruction.
Not only has J.J. Harris benefited from all of the resources that the gifted coordinator, Dr. Katherine Brown, and the advanced math and spectrum teacher, Mrs. Abby Hughes, have provided for the school; it also has a professor in residence from the University of Georgia. There are a variety of students from UGA's College of Education involved in practicum experiences, student teaching, tutoring, research, and mentoring. Besides being the gifted coordinator at J.J. Harris, Dr. Brown is also a professor at in the Gifted and Creative Education department of UGA's COE. Graduate students in the GCE department at UGA have the unique opportunity to develop a relationship in the collegiate environment as professor and student, the elementary gifted education classroom environment as mentor and mentee, the regular classroom environment as colleagues, and the possibility of later professional collaboration in many different environments with many different eminent minds in the gifted education field.
During my practicum, I created and taught a multicultural gifted education mini-unit about fables in a second grade classroom. I have documented this experience in words, photos, videos, and more in the website below.
If you would like to contact me, please e-mail me at asbyda@clarke.k12.ga.us.
Not only has J.J. Harris benefited from all of the resources that the gifted coordinator, Dr. Katherine Brown, and the advanced math and spectrum teacher, Mrs. Abby Hughes, have provided for the school; it also has a professor in residence from the University of Georgia. There are a variety of students from UGA's College of Education involved in practicum experiences, student teaching, tutoring, research, and mentoring. Besides being the gifted coordinator at J.J. Harris, Dr. Brown is also a professor at in the Gifted and Creative Education department of UGA's COE. Graduate students in the GCE department at UGA have the unique opportunity to develop a relationship in the collegiate environment as professor and student, the elementary gifted education classroom environment as mentor and mentee, the regular classroom environment as colleagues, and the possibility of later professional collaboration in many different environments with many different eminent minds in the gifted education field.
During my practicum, I created and taught a multicultural gifted education mini-unit about fables in a second grade classroom. I have documented this experience in words, photos, videos, and more in the website below.
If you would like to contact me, please e-mail me at asbyda@clarke.k12.ga.us.
