Advanced Academics / Gifted and Talented Workshops

  • Want to increase engagement in your classroom? Discover easily implemented strategies to support active learning, encourage critical thinking and empower students to take ownership of their learning. Participate in student-centered learning experiences and leave with a variety of techniques to better meet the needs of all students. Come have FUN and be ACTIVELY ENGAGED!!

  • Discover how to use notebooks as a powerful teaching and learning tool for students. Teach organizational skills and strategies for capturing and processing newly learned content in meaningful ways. Invite students to catalogue not only their papers, but also their ideas and thoughts as they create a personal “Book of Knowledge”.

  • Provide teachers practical ways to create a classroom culture where students are motivated by curiosity and make meaning of their learning. Address the critical importance of aligning instruction to the complexity of the standards. Create curiosity and questioning opportunities to boost thinking. If we want to students engaged in meaningful thinking, we must model, teach and practice ways to think “strategically” around our content. If they aren’t thinking, they aren’t learning.

  • Equip educators to create a culture of inquiry where students are engaged and doing the work of student historians. Analyze the components of inquiry and learn to create lessons/units that require higher-ordered thinking and quality questioning. Empower students to grapple with the difficult issues, ideals and events of history as they work with primary sources to better comprehend and even challenge their understandings

  • Learn instructional strategies that utilize questioning to expand student knowledge and encourage

    students to think creatively. Questions play an important role in every classroom. Student questions

    and teacher questions create an environment that supports inquiry. This highly interactive workshop

    equips teachers to create an active learning environment that encourages students to ask and

    answer deeper questions.

  • Help GT students discover the “power of potential” in the classroom. Experience strategies and

    gather tools to create and support a collaborative community. Equip teachers and empower GT

    learners to thrive in the classroom.

  • Rigor is not what we teach – it’s how we teach! Experience strategies that challenge GT

    students to move beyond memorization to powerful application of knowledge. Spiral thinking

    and deepen comprehension with carefully crafted open-ended questions to allow students to

    think creatively and independently. Create opportunities for students to make deeper

    connections for transfer of knowledge. Leave the workshops with a deeper understanding of

    how to create an environment that fosters critical thinking, creativity and a love of learning.

    Rigor is not more, it’s different.

  • Teach your students to think like a historian! Educators must identify the components of rigorous instruction for deep understanding and develop a culture of historical inquiry. Participants will experience effective strategies that support the instructional shifts necessary to create a learner-centered classroom, align vertically and spiral appropriately to build a strong foundation for every student K through 12. Sessions customized for grade-level and/or content specific audiences.

  • Consider how to meet the needs of your GT students as you identify your teaching style and your

    students’ learning needs. Learn how to differentiate content, the classroom process and student

    products according to student intelligences, readiness and interest in a standards-driven classroom.

    Experience strategies that excite students and ignite their passion for learning.

  • Gather tools, techniques and tips to support instruction and help create a culture to support our gifted and talented learners. Explore a variety of strategies from easily implemented to individualized studies designed to differentiate and deepen instruction. Workshop fulfills the annual six-hour update for GT educators.

  • Classroom culture is critical to student success. Know your students and how to best meet their needs to help them achieve their full potential. Learn a variety of ways to better know your learners to create an “I can!” culture that invites and encourages all to join the learning experience.