Resource Teachers
Gifted
Program Reading
Recovery/Title I Special
Education
Falling Branch Elementary is
fortunate to be staffed with multiple resource personnel, including a Gifted
Program Resource Teacher, Reading Specialists, Special Education teachers and
a Speech Pathologist. These teachers provide additional instructional support
to students, teachers and parents.
Gifted
Program
The Gifted Coordinator works
with teachers and students to provide services for identified students.
Additional responsibilities include evaluating students in grades K-5 who
may qualify for these services and keeping parents informed of their child's
status.
Meet the teacher...
Mrs. Brenda Mash
Click on the links
below to view additional gifted resources...
MCPS Gifted Website
National
Association for Gifted Children
Council
for Exceptional Children
Reading
Recovery/Title I
The primary focus of the supplemental
reading program at Falling Branch Elementary is to intervene in the early
grades with the hopes of preventing reading difficulties. Kindergarten,
first and second grade students receive individual and/or small group instruction
from certified reading specialists. The school's reading services
include Reading Recovery, Title I and an Early Learning Program for kindergarten.
Reading Recovery is an intensive
early intervention effort to reach those first grade children who are having
the most difficulty learning to read and write. Our Title I program
serves selected students in kindergarten, first and second grade.
Our goal is to provide extra help and instruction in reading and language
arts. The Kindergarten Early Learning Program serves as a support
for the differing needs of identified children in the area of language
arts.
Meet the teachers...
Mrs.
Laura Earp
Mrs. Leslie Dalton
Ms.
Kathleen O'Connell
Mrs. Deborah Simpkins
Mrs. Beth Lehman
Special
Education
At Falling Branch, special
education students are in a regular classroom for the entire school day.
As a team, the classroom teacher and the special education teacher collaborate
to meet the needs of the entire class based on individual strengths and
weaknesses. Children who need small group or individual instruction
are provided help outside the regular classroom setting.
Meet the teachers...
Mr. Joe Aldridge
Mr.
Jeremy
Jackson
Mrs. Angie McCauley (Former Ms. Hall)
Mrs. Amber Stacy
Dr. Debbie Wells
FBE
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