Gifted and Exceptional Learners

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

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

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

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

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