Teaching to Students Identified as Gifted: Who, What, How

Teaching to Students Identified as Gifted: Who, What, How

Objectives

  • Use data and resources to plan and implement lessons for gifted children and adolescents in the classroom.
  • Apply differentiated approaches to existing and new curriculum while integrating with new tools and resources. 
  • Adopt and adapt evidence-based practices for immediate classroom and gifted program implementation.

Hours: 10

Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity

Objectives:

  • Understand and apply the foundational underpinnings of creativity.
  • Practice with strategies that cultivate and nurture creativity among students.
  • Plan new curriculum, or rework old curriculum, to allow for creative license in the classroom in all subject areas.

Hours: 10

Evidence-Based Strategies for Gifted Learners

Evidence-Based Strategies for Gifted Learners

Objectives:

  • Examine and discuss pedagogical underpinnings of teaching gifted and exceptional students.
  • Review effective models of evidence-based instructional methods and classroom environment.
  • Customize curricula for personalized instruction.
  • Align pre, during, and post-instruction assessments to curricula.

Hours: 10

Differentiating Instruction for Autistic Children

Differentiating Instruction for Autistic Children

Course Objectives:

  • Review footage and lesson plans of classrooms that use effective strategies to meet the needs of autistic learners.
  • Discuss the varied needs of autistic learners, and the need to differentiate for them.
  • Design lessons with embedded evidence-based and engaging strategies to differentiate for the needs of autistic learners in mainstream classrooms.

Hours: 10


Teaching Exceptional Learners

Teaching Exceptional Learners

Course Objectives:

  • Review and discuss evidence-based strategies that meet the needs of gifted students.
  • Use exemplars as a baseline of working models from which to design curriculum.
  • Adopt and adapt classroom strategies for gifted students through implementation, feedback, and reflection.
  • Acquire and accumulate a toolbox of new resources to aid in meeting the diverse needs of gifted learners.

Hours: 10