Advanced Learners
Advanced Learners
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Teresa Creasy:
- Friendsville Elementary
- Union Grove Elementary
- Carpenters Middle School
- Eagleton Middle School
- Heritage Middle School
- Union Grove Middle School
- To be added in the future: (a work in progress)
- William Blount High School
- Heritage High School
Mona Huskey:
- Carpenters Elementary
- Eagleton Elementary
- Fairview Elementary
- Lanier Elementary
- Mary Blount Elementary
- Middlesettlements Elementary
- Montvale Elementary
- Porter Elementary
- Prospect Elementary
- Rockford Elementary
- Townsend Elementary
- Walland Elementary
Program Philosophy:
Program Philosophy:
The Advanced Learners program believes that our students should be given opportunities to think creatively, use higher order thinking skills, while in a collaborative setting with peers, to find solutions to real world problems. Our vision is to maximize the academic potential of our advanced learners and prepare them to be 21st century learners and workers.
Goals:
Goals:
- To foster the development of intellectual reasoning in students.
- To expose students to a variety of activities to designed to challenge the students to think creatively.
- To encourage higher order thinking skills and problem solving.
- To encourage creativity.
- To be an active participant in a collaborative setting.
Hour of Code introduction: Blocks
Hour of Code introduction: Blocks
Hour of Code: Resources
Hour of Code: Resources
Photos of Coding Professional Development and Student activities this semester:
Photos of Coding Professional Development and Student activities this semester:
A student from UGES working on code.org using blocks to learn how to code.
Students at Friendsville and UGES coding during Advanced Learner classes.
Mrs. Creasy explaining the basic concepts of coding using code.org to fifth grade classes at Friendsville Elementary School.
Keith Jackson, a trainer for code.org, training almost 50 teachers from Blount County Schools on Sept. 28, 2016 (in the picture to the left).
Teachers from Lanier and Carpenters Middle School presenting coding "unplugged" lessons during the training on Sept. 28.
These students taught their classroom teachers how to code!
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