My Superintendent, Philip Welch, comes to my campus and meets with campus administrators monthly. After our monthly campus administrator meeting, Mr. Welch met with me about my Intern Plan. He told me that my plan looked good and that I would be very busy with the activities I had chosen. He made two suggestions for changes or additions to my plan. The first change was the addition of another community member / retired teacher on Activity 30a. I added Mr. Doug Wilson to my list of people to interview based on Mr. Welch’s recommendation. The second change was to Activity 35a. When I wrote the plan, I could not think of an issue on our campus to research. Mr. Welch suggested that I research G/T on our campus. At this time, Orangefield Elementary services G/T students beginning in the spring of their Kindergarten year. The Kindergarten G/T students are serviced through a pull-out program. First graders through fourth graders are placed in a “Challenge” class. This class is made up of the identified G/T students and “over-achievers.” We are planning on phasing out the “Challenge” classes and going to a pull-out program beginning in first grade next year, adding second grade the following year, and so on until all grade levels are in a pull-out program. We know that the current G/T teachers and parents of the over-achievers are not going to be happy with this arrangement. I will be researching this issue for activity 35a.
