Sponsored by Summer-Knoll Lower School. Contact 734-971-7991 for information and registration. This conference will feature key note speakers Dr. Bob Sornson and Dr. Jim Delisle. This conference focuses on increasing knowledge of the specific needs of gifted students in mixed-ability classrooms, improving understanding of parent/child relationships, and developing effective classroom communities.

Learn ways to increase your teaching options and enhance your existing gifted curriculum with highly motivational, exciting and innovative instructional strategies.

In this workshop an experienced educator of the gifted and a psychologist with expertise on gifted individuals will address basic Gifted and Talented issues for parents and educators. Participants will leave with basic knowledge of the characteristics of gifted young children and adolescents; awareness of the difference between bright learners and gifted learners; knowing how to spot gifted learners and at home and in the classroom and more.

This is for Lansing School District staff only. It is designed to improve teacher understanding of talent identification, talent development, and assessment strategies; to focus on typically underserved populations of talented learners; to help prepare teachers for providing instruction to academically talented learners; to review special issues of talent development among typically underserved populations of talented learners; and to examine instruments used to identify talent and evaluate performance.

15th Annual Advanced Placement Summer Institute sponsored by The Leelanau School will incorporate advanced educational training for teachers in the area of Psychology.

15th Annual Advanced Placement Summer Institute sponsored by The Leelanau School will provide advanced placement training for educators in the area of Biology, including key connections to curriculum.

15th Annual Advanced Placement Summer Institute sponsored by The Leelanau School will provide excellent advanced placement training for teachers in government and political science courses.

15th Annual Advanced Placement Summer Institute sponsored by The Leelanau School will provide excellent advanced placement training for teachers in Economics.

15th Annual Advanced Placement Summer Institute sponsored by The Leelanau School will introduce the advanced placement English Language course to educators.

15th annual Advanced Placement Summer Institute sponsored by The Leelanau School will provide advanced training in the area of English Lit. For new teachers, the emphasis will focus on becoming better informed about the fundamentals of the AP program. Experienced teachers will get a chance to learn about the newest trends in their content area.

15th Annual Advanced Placement Summer Institute sponsored by The Leelanau School is offering advanced placement training for educators in the area of English Literature.

15th Annual Advanced Placement Summer Institute sponsored by The Leelanau School will provide advanced placement training in the area of Environmental Science to teachers and educators.

15th Annual Advanced Placement Summer Institute sponsored by The Leelanau School will provide advanced placement educational training in the area of European History.

15th Annual Advanced Placement Summer Institute sponsored by The Leelanau School will provide advanced educational training and resources for teachers in the area of Statistics.

15th Annual Advanced Placement Summer Institute sponsored by The Leelanau School will provide advanced placement training in US Government & Politics to educators and teachers.

15th Annual Advanced Placement Summer Institute sponsored by The Leelanau School. This advanced placement training will provide excellent training to educators in the area of US History.

15th Annual Advanced Placement Summer Institute sponsored by The Leelanau School. This course will provide training in the area of US History for experienced teachers and teachers new to advanced placement.

15th Annual Advanced Placement Summer Institute sponsored by The Leelanau School will offer excellenet training for educators in the area of World History.

The Bay City Association for the Academically Talented announces "Encouraging Critical & Creative Questioning In the Classroom and At Home."

This event will have the following topics

• Intensity in the Classroom: What´s a Teacher to Do?
• Organization and Time Management in the Gifted Child, or Lack Thereof!
• Ways to Move Your Staff To Using Critical Thinking in the Classroom
• Perfectionistic Traits in Creative Children
• Intensity At Home: What´s a Parent to Do?

To register, please contact Sue Murphy, Bay City Public Schools (989) 671-8180 or murphys@bcschools.net

Participants will understand and apply concepts of differentiated instruction to their work with students. A comprehensive model will be learned and applied. Participants will experience bodybrain-compatible learning themselves and use many of the recommended strategies

Solving the Assessment Puzzle – How and why we assess students are the essential questions of this workshop. This workshop will look at how to develop and use types of performance and authentic assessments, especially when differentiating classroom instruction. Included is how to link standards to curriculum units, how to develop assessment criteria for specific products and performances, how and when to create complex rubrics, how and when to use product criteria cards and the use of student logs, rating scales, checklists, portfolios, student self-assessments and group assessment procedures. For information contact: Sue Belaski, Executive Director at (616) 365-8230 at Michigan Alliance for Gifted Education migiftedchild.org

This workshop focuses on practical strategies showing teachers the "how-to" of differentiation with the emphasis on meeting the needs of gifted and high ability students. Strategies include flexible grouping, tiered lessons and units, curriculum compacting, independent study, learning centers, learning contracts, ways to give students choices of learning activities, classroom management strategies in a differentiated classroom and more. Teachers will learn how to access and document what their students already know, how to plan for and monitor challenging alternative activities, and how to design and implement learning activities which promote higher level thinking. For information contact: Sue Belaski, Executive Director at (616) 365-8230 at Michigan Alliance for Gifted Education migiftedchild.org

This workshop is provided for teachers and administrators who need to know how to meet the needs of academiccally talented students in an academically diverse classroom.

Participants in this workshop series will learn how to richly challenge and motivate all students in a heterogenious classroom, free teachers to work more creatively with students while meeting required state standards and benchmarks. Participants will work with their own curriculum materials to create differentiated lessons.

Participants will raise their awareness and knowledge of who the gifted child is, and what schools can do to advance their growth emotionally, socially, academically and intellectually. They will increase their knowledge and understanding of brain research and its implications for parenting and educating children.

Participants of day two of this symposium will increase their understanding of social and emotional issues in parenting gifted children. They will learn to support the networking opportunities for families of academically gifted children.

This workshop is open to all teachers from the CCISD service area who have attended a service learning workshop in the past 3 years. Participants will review the essential elements of service learning, design a service project for their classroom and put together a grant application for up to $500 to implement the project. Contact Loret at 482-0331 for registration information.

Teacher participants will be instructed through presentations and modeling on how to create tiered lessons, pretests, and extensions for mixed ability student groups.

This program will be offered twice (once in am and once in pm so districts can send more people and use same subs twice). This “exploratory” session will access prior student knowledge as teachers pre-assess and identifies what is known and what students need to know. Participants will develop alternative performance projects.

The overall goal of this program is to increase student performance through the implementation of strategies that meet a range of learner needs. Educators will develop effective units of study for use in their classrooms that: 1) adapt core curricula into topical, integrated and interdisciplinary units of study; 2) infuse creative and critical thinking into core subject matter; 3) balance kinesthetic, oral, visual, and written student products; and 4) evaluate students using performance-based criteria.

Cutting Edge Strategies for Gifted & Highly Capable Students - Grades 4-12. Increase your teaching options and enhance your existing gifted curriculum with highly motivational, exciting and innovative differentiated instructional strategies. Learn the newest, best teaching strategies for meeting the needs of your gifted and highly capable students using a differentiated approach. Develop powerful, comprehensive differentiated lessons that are authentically and qualitatively different, using Dr. Roger Taylor´s practical, creative lesson design. Implement innovative, low-cost, no-cost, cutting-edge strategies you can immediately use in your classroom. Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. For additional workshop information go to www.ber.org or call 1-800-736-2136.

IACET Program

This session will cover the study of curricular options, teaching models, and strategies appropriate for the differentiated learning needs of the gifted and talented. Instructional strategies include the use of compacting curriculum, a comprehensive study of the multiple intelligences, the use of interest inventories, and curriculum integration.

This series of three training sessions will cover the study of curricular options, teaching models and strategies appropriate for the differentiated learning needs of the gifted and talented. Instructional strategies include the use of compacting curriculum, a comprehensive study of the multiple intelligences, the use of interest inventories and curriculum design.

Dozens of practical strategies for differentiating your classroom instruction enabling you to provide advanced learning opportunities that are qualitatively different and more challenging for your gifted students. How to make the best use of scaffolding, tiered assignments, complex instruction, orbital studies, mini-lessons, "anchor activities" and a host of other strategies to more effectively differentiate instruction for your gifted students. Proven ways to incorporate flexible grouping practices by strengths, collaboration abilities, interests, modalities, and readiness. Avoid the common pitfalls of differentiation with clear, easy-to-implement authentic frameworks that really work. Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar.

This seminar will take a very practical look at many aspects of an existing curriculum, the teaching strategies of differentiation, as well as curriculum compacting and flexible grouping as an essential part of instruction for gifted students. They will learn a wide variety of strategies to differentiate their instruction by student strengths, interests, the pace or process of the learning, readiness, and learning preference. By creating depth and complexity of curriculum, a faster pace for students who demonstrate mastery of skills and reaching further in products and outcomes of their learning, gifted students will have the tools to reach their full potential. For grades 1-8. Seminar offered by BER. Questions? www.ber.org or 800-735-3503

Dozens of practical strategies for differentiating your classroom instruction. How to make the best use of scaffolding, tiered assignments, complex instruction, orbital studies, mini-lessons, and a host of other strategies to more effectively differentiate instruction for your gifted students. Strategies for the twice-exceptional learners - including the ADHD, Aspergers and high-functioning autistic student. Avoid the common pitfalls of differentiation with clear, easy-to-implement, time-efficient frameworks that really work. How to more effectively communicate with students, parents and staff the importance of differentiation as a means of maximizing learning for gifted students. For more information or to register go to www.ber.org or call 1-800-735-3503.

Teachers will learn how to design and use differentiated lessons in their classroom from a nationally-known presenter, Kathleen Kryza.

All participants will have a thorough understanding of what differentiation is and what it is not and how differentiation should be designed when it is intended to be an integral part of services to gifted learners. Participants will also understand how differentiation can fit into a spectrum of acceleration options available to students. Each participant will understand what the limits and possibilities of differentiation are in planning services for gifted and talented students and how differntiation should be part of an array of services from which to meet the learning needs of individual students. Participants will also learn the many ways in which classroom teachers can differentiate and for which students each type is most effective.

This program is open to all Livingston County classroom teachers will learn new strategies for addressing the diverse needs of all learners in their classroom, not just those of gifted students. Participants will learn strategies such as contracts, open-ended projects, grouping strategies, graphic organizers, accountability measures and choice centers.

One size does not fit all and one learning style does not fit all students. This 4 day workshop will explore differeniated instruction and designing a layered curriculum for the differeniated classroom.

A five hour intensive workshop designed to provide teachers an introduction to tools for differentiation in the classroom. Participants will gain knowledge and classroom ideas in the: use of computers/programs, assessment & diagnosis, adjusting questions, learning contracts, flexible grouping, tiered activities, anchor activities, independent studies, differentiated centers, curriculum compacting, use of internet/learning centers, graduated task-product-rubrics, and use of multiple texts and supplementary materials for the gifted and talented.

Participants will gain an overview of the issues that concern educatiors of gifted and talented students. Particpants will experience techniques and resources currently used in G/T programs. Participants will gain expertise in various philosophies, strategies, and resources currently used in G/T programs. Participants will be exposed to theory and opportunity to practice strategies during the course of the workshop. The program is designed to provide teachers withideas to use in clusters and in other arrangements for serving the needs of G/T students.

Increase your teaching options and enhance your existing gifted curriculum with highly motivational, exciting and innovative differentiated instructional strategies. Learn the newest, best teaching strategies for meeting the needs of your gifted and highly capable students using a differentiated approach. Develop powerful, comprehensive differentiated lessons using Dr. Taylor´s practical, creative lesson design. Implement innovative, low-cost, no-cost, cutting-edge strategies you can immediately use in your classroom. Each participant will receive an extensive handbook designed specifically for this seminar.

For registration information, please contact Genine Hodges at ghodges@misd.net or 586/228-3494. Open to classroom teachers grades 3-6. Participants will learn how to differentiate by content, process, ability, product and learning style within a motivational, project-based program.

Participants will learn strategies for working both ends of the differentiation spectrum - low achieving as well as gifted. Strategies for working with low achieving students as well as helping "twice exceptional" students will be explored. Regular classroom teachers - both general education and special education- will learn new strategies for addressing the diverse needs of all learners in their classroom, not-just those of gifted students. This program which is open to Livingston County teachers will be offered twice (once in the am and once in the pm) so more teachers can attend.

(Note: This is the same program as the one listed on 1/21/04.)Participants will learn strategies for working both ends of the differentiation spectrum - low achieving as well as gifted. Strategies for working with low achieving students as well as helping "twice exceptional" students will be explored. Regular classroom teachers - both general education and special education- will learn new strategies for addressing the diverse needs of all learners in their classroom, not-just those of gifted students. This program which is open to Livingston County teachers will be offered twice (once in the am and once in the pm) so more teachers can attend.

All participants will leave with a conceptual understandnig of differentiated instruction and its many facets. Each will also have learned specific several strategies that he/she can implement immediately and have a framework for creating multiple differentiated learning experiences within their required curriculum. Initial session introduces concepts andsubsequent sessions introduce additional strategies, problems and analyze participant successes and problems with differentiated strategies and explore in greater depth issues such as evaluation and grading, communicating with parents and much more.

Learn ways to enrich existing curriculum through differentiation; learn how to meet the needs of gifted students in the general classroom; learn ways to raise the academic achievement while increasing motivation.

All students deserve to learn, even those who seem to "know it all." That is a foundational principle for Susan Winebrenner´s strategies and techniques for classroom teachers. Winebrenner´s classroom management strategies are being implemented in classroom all over the globe. Susan will be very clear about the benefit to all students in your classroom- not just those who have been identified as advanced, high end learners, or talented. Susan Winebrenner will guide teachers through specific classroom management strategies that will create learning success for those we label "at risk" as well as those we label gifted and talented.

Susan Winebrenner will show strategies and techniques based on the principle that all students deserve to learn. She will teach you how to teach to students´ learning styles and needs in order to provide appropriate differentation opportunities for those who need them. She will show you how to plan and teach units that provides challenge for all types of learners.

Participants will develop differentiated lessons that adress readiness differences, student interests, and learning profile differences. They will learn how to use concept based units/lessons to facilitate differentiation and also the advantages of inquiry based instruction with a heterogeneous classroom.

Dozens of practical strategies to provide challenging and significantly different learning opportunities for your gifted and highly capable students. Unique approaches and proven teaching strategies that avoid the problems typically associated with differentiation. Innovative techniques to increase your teaching options and enhance critical thinking through highly motivating activities and instructional strategies. Low-cost, no-cost practical ideas that can be implemented immediately without large amounts of extra time and planning. Each participant will receive an comprehensive resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. For more information go to www.ber.org or call 1-800-736-2136.

This workshop is open to all interested teachers. Participants will learn the basics about giftedness and look at differentiated instruction. contact Loret at 482-0331 for more information.

This workshop is open to all interested teachers. Participants with a basic knowledge of gifted students will examine several different differentiation strategies. Contact Loret at 482-0331 for registration information.

To explore the concept of differentiated instruction and school improvement.

This is limited to Lansing School District staff. Participants will be able to define giftedness and describe related educational implications, discuss the characteristics and needs of academically talented students and demonstrate fundamental knowledge of identification and programming alternatives with particular reference to curriculum, instruction and administrative design.

Teachers often find that the principles of differentiation make intuitive sense, yet feel overwhelmed when they actually try to implement these ideas in practice. The goal of the Differentiating Instruction with technology is to create practical models of differentiated instruction enhanced through the vast resources and diversity that technology affords the teachng and learning process. The overall goal of the workshop is to guide educators in understanding and finding more effective ways to ensure that culturally different students are identified as gifted and that they are successful once identified and placed in a classroom or program.

In this program you will learn: the current, best strategies for better meeting the needs of your gifted and highly capable students; innovative strategies that encourage top performance and high quality work.

This workshop for educators and parents of advanced learners will explore ways to enrich, enhance and excite students who have mastered the curriculum when they enter the classroom. 2008 Newbery Honor Citation winner Gary Schmidt will present a keynote session, as will Jacque Melin of Grand Valley State University. Other sessions will offer a variety of topics including online learning opportunities, differentiated instuctional strategies, and parenting the advanced learner.

Restricted to WBSD staff. This workshop will introduce school leaders and teachers to the International Baccalaureate organization and the continuum of learning that occurs in the three different programme levels. It also allows participants to engage in small group discussions with those who have gained practical experience in International Baccalaureate. Participants will hear about procedures and regional differences and how International Baccalaureate earned its reputation for high standards of academic achievement and pedagogical leadership.

The Michigan Alliance for Gifted Education 2008 Spring Conference will provide participants with a real understanding and significant ideas for all who are concerned with the gifted - at home and in school! Dr. Michael Piechowski will share his copious insights and abundant knowledge about the intensity and sensitivity of the gifted. Participants will attend 2 different keynote addresses and 2 of 3 breakout sessions. They will have opportunities for informal dialog and discussion also will be provided, along with a concluding panel discussion among the 4 speakers.

Conference will provide participants with a real understanding and significant ideas for all who are concerned with the gifted - at home and in school. Dr. Michael Piechowski will share his copious insights and abundant knowledge about the intensity and sensitivity of the gifted.

Day One: This program is designed for those in the process of evaluating or planning services for gifted and talented (advanced and accelerated)students. The variety of service models will be examined, including relative cost, impact on individual students and impact of other students. The goal is to help participants make the best possible decisions and provide the best services for each student possible at the lowest cost. On day two participants will closely examine differentiation, a currently popular method for meeting the needs of diverse students in regular classrooms, as part of a district´s services to gifted students. All participants will gain a thorough understanding of what differntiation is and what it is not and how differentiation should be designed when it is intended to be an integral part of services to gifted learners. Participants will also understand how differentiation can fit into a spectrum of acceleration options available to students.

Learn the current, best strategies to better meet the needs of your gifted and highly capable students, grades 1-8.

Help to strengthen instruction for your gifted and highly capable students by applying these strategies and techniques offered through this seminar. The emphasis will be on improving your students´ problem solving and critical thinking skills in all curricular areas.

In this session, the presenter will show how they can meet the needs of all students through differentiating Instruction. The presenter will show how to create differentiated learning activities while integrating MEAP Benchmarks.In this session. we will create classsroom activities that are differentiated, based on the individual teacher´s current subject area content, Michigan standards and benchmarks, and needs of the students.

Designed for educators serving grades 1-8, this seminar will help you to learn innovative strategies that encourage top performance and high quality work to help increase student achievement.

Presented by Kathleen Kryza, (National Presenter, Author of “Inspiring Middle and Secondary Learners” and “Inspiring Elementary Learners”). This 3-session series will develop an understanding of what it means to be gifted, programming options for Gifted Learners and Differentiated Instruction strategies for teaching Gifted Learners.

Managing the Differentiated Classroom, Differentiating Instruction: How to Reach & Tach All Learners.

Teacher participants will be instructed on how to administer, score, and interpret the Slosson Intelligence Test to be used with accelerated students. Also, participants will be instructed on how to create tiered lessons, pretests, and extensions for mixed ability student groupings.

Teacher participants will be instructed through presentations and modeling on how to direct instruction through critical thinking and questioning skills, literature circles, technology, and origami in classrooms for mixed ability students groups.

All participants will leave with a conceptual understanding of differentiated instruction and its many facets. Each will also have learned specific several strategies that he/she can implement immediately and have a framework for creating multiple differentiated learning experiences within their required curriculum. Initial session introduces concepts and subsequent sessions introduce additional strategies, problems and analyze participant successes and problems with differentiated strategies and explore in greater depth issues such as evaluating and grading, communicating with parents and much more.

Prepare coaches to effectively lead student Odyssey of the Mind Teams. Classroom teachers will also learn how they could use OM principles to develop challenging cooperative learning assignments.

Prepare coaches to effectively lead Odyssey of the Mind (OM) teams. Classroom teachers will also learn how they could use OM principles to develop challenging cooperative learning assignments. Participants will fully understand the rules and penalties of OM; clearly understand the coach´s responsibilities; the terminology of OM; be able to explain the different components of OM and more.

To give participants an opportunity to discover that they can differentiate effectively and more easily than they thought. They will discover practical differentiation techniques, including assessing student readiness level and the logistics of grouping and regrouping, and learn key principles of diffentiation.

Introduce teachers and curriculum specialists to the Parallel Curriculum, a method of differentiating curriculum while meeting state/district standards to develop high potential and challenge high ability learners.

This workshop is designed to help teachers understand and meet the needs of gifted and talented learners by creating a common understanding of what it means to be gifted.The workshop will look at the array of programming options for meeting the needs of gifted learners in your school.

In this workshop coordinated by Oakland Schools for Walled Lake personnel only, for Walled Lake personnel only, participants will understand and apply concepts of differentiated instruction to their work with students in 4 - 8 classrooms. A system for appropriately identifying and meeting the needs of advanced and gifted children using the Kingore Observation Inventory will be presented. Participants will be actively involved in the session as numerous simple-to-use curriculum strategies and activities are demonstrated. Learners will understand a system of identification based upon analytical observation, understand, apply and communicate KOI (Kingore Observation Inventory), be able to understand and use the vocabulary of differentiation, understand specific strategies for differentiation in 4 - 8 classrooms, apply differentiation strategies to their work, develop a plan for implementing differentiation as part of a comprehensive school improvement plan, and establish a stimulating and challenging learning environment for all students in their 4 - 8 classrooms.

In this workshop coordinated by Oakland Schools for Walled Lake personnel only, participants will understand and apply concepts of differentiated instruction to their work with students in K - 5 classrooms. A system for appropriately identifying and meeting the needs of advanced and gifted children using the Kingore Observation Inventory will be presented. Participants will be actively involved in the session as numerous simple-to-use curriculum strategies and activities are demonstrated. Learners will understand a system of identification based upon analytical observation, understand, apply and communicate KOI (Kingore Observation Inventory), be able to understand and use the vocabulary of differentiation, understand specific strategies for differentiation in K - 5 classrooms, apply differentiation strategies to their work, develop a plan for implementing differentiation as part of a comprehensive school improvement plan, and establish a stimulating and challenging learning environment for all students in their K - 5 classrooms.

Participants will understand and apply concepts of differentiated instruction to their work with students. A system for appropriately identifying and meeting the needs of advanced and gifted children using the Kingore Observation Inventory will be presented. Participants will be actively involved in the session as numerous simple-to-use curriculum strategies and activities are demonstrated.

In this workshop coordinated by Oakland Schools for Walled Lake personnel only, for Walled Lake personnel only, participants will understand and apply concepts of differentiated instruction to their work with students in K - 6 classrooms. A system for appropriately identifying and meeting the needs of advanced and gifted children using the Kingore Observation Inventory will be presented. It will provide learning opportunities for advanced students using KOI. Participants will learn application to standards and benchmarks, to use assessments to determine instruction, and how to communicate with parents about KOI.

This program is designed for those in the process of evaluating or planning services for gifted and talented (advanced and accelerated) students. The variety of service models will be examined, including relative cost, impact on individual students and impact on other students. The goal is to help participants make the best possible decisions and provide the best services for each student possible at the lowest cost. Participants will learn what impact various gifted service models have on various types of gifted students to enable them to make responsible service decisions for individual students and districts. They will learn how to communicate w/parents and other educators about service decisions and any changes in gifted services and how to support their service decisions with research.

This program is for talent development specialists/administrators in Oakland County The purpose of the Re-forming Gifted Educations is to study current issues that impact gifted education (acceleration, assessment, types of enrichment, programming) and to explore models to restructure the delivery of service to gifted students. As a result of attending this staff development, participants will acquire increased knowledge of current state and national educational issues in gifted education and design programs to address these issues. For registration information, please contact Roxanne Reschke, 248-209-2273.

The presenter will present her model of how to address the social and emotional needs of gifted students. She willdemonstrate how her model, the Social Emotional Sense Model for Gifted Children can be applied to identify and treat gifted students at all levels.

Designed for grades 4-12, learn the current, best strategies for meeting the needs of your gifted and hightly capable students.

All participants will leave with a conceptual understanding of differentiated instruction and its many facets. Each will also have learned specific several strategies that he/she can implement immediately and have a framework for creating multiple differentiated learning experiences within their required curriculum.

This program will be offered twice in the same day so districts can send more teachers. Regular classroom teachers - both general education and special education - will learn new strategies for addressing the diverse needs of all learners in their classroom, not just those of gifted students.

Specifically designed for grades 4-12, this seminar will teach how to increase your teaching options and enhance your existing gifted curriculum with hightly motivational, exciting and innovative instructional strategies.

Teaching Gifted Students Through Differentiated Teaching Strategies (Grades 1-8) Participants will know how to differentiate insturction, they will know how to accelerate content instruction using curriculum compacting, they will be able to use assessment as a tool, be able to create challenging learning centers, they will learn innovative thinking and questioning strategies and be able to provide appropriate modifications for struggling "gifted" students. Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar.

This offering will give suggestions to classroom teachers related to teaching high ability students in mixed ability classrooms by providing challenging activities, processes, questioning strategies, etc. For Summit Academy Staff Only Please.

This course will give background information regarding gifted children. It will also give working ideas that will help the classroom differentiate within the classroom setting. There will be several make and take work sessions to that teachers have things they can use at the beginning of next year´s classes. We will also look at the Slosson Test and Whole Grade Acceleration as an option for gifted children.

The study of curricular options, teaching models, and strategies appropriate for the differentiated learning needs of the gifted and talented.

This session will cover the study of curricular options, teaching models, and strategies appropriate for the differentiated learning needs of the gifted and talented. Instructional practices include cubing, project based learning, tic tac toe extensions, and research and computer activities.

The goal of this workshop is to provide participants an opportunity to explore the issues that support or hinder talent development for non-traditionally gifted learners - those students who, because their gifts do not conform to traditional academic settings and expectations, have special need of our recognition and support in order to value and develop their gifts.

For registration information, please contact Cindy Alderman at 586/412-2601 or calderman@misd.net. Open to occupational and physical therapists and psychologists. Participants will understand the stages of hand development, recognize and apply pre-writing skills, define and identify components for good hand writing.

NOTE: Program will be offered twice (once in am and once in pm so districts can send more partipants and use same sub). Participants will learn strategies for working both ends of the differentiation spectrum – low achieving as well as gifted. Participants will look at: a basic inquiry model, focus activities, “Sponge” activities, roles/role-playing, jigsaw management techniques, and problem-based learning techniques.

For registration information, please contact Cathy Plegue at cplegue@misd.net or 586/228-3494. Open to Classroom Teachers for grades 4 and 5. Participants will learn important strategies for addressing the needs of gifted students.