If you're expected to help gifted students grow but you've had little to no training, and the pressure from administrators and parents is overwhelming, this workshop is for you. It will help you feel better prepared because you will learn strategies you can immediately use with your gifted students. Once you implement what you've learned, your gifted students will be engaged and motivated so parents will be happy and administrators will see growth over time.

 Teachers want to help their gifted students, but they simply haven't been given any training or support. Not only that, there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what gifted students need and how to support these needs. This course starts by clearing up a few of these misconceptions, including the myths that some have about gifted kids. Then you will be shown what a classroom where gifted students are challenged looks like, including the difference between accelerating and enriching the learning. The next lesson provides you specific strategies for how to accelerate the learning and when this should be used. Similarly, how does one enrich the learning and what specific strategies can be used with gifted (and all students for that matter) that are ready for such a challenge? We can't talk about gifted education without addressing differentiation. How does one do this with his/her gifted population, whether it be in content, process, or product? Finally, you don't want to totally throw out the great work you are already doing with students, so how do you merge all of these strategies with what you are already doing and grade it objectively? Not only that but how do you get buy-in from all of the stakeholders including students, parents, and administration?

Course registration and payment are submitted via Grassroots Workshops. Register Here.  (https://grassrootsworkshops.com/workshops/how-to-challenge-gifted-students). 

The clock hour fee upon completion of the course is $9 paid to ESD112. 

Once you complete the course and receive the certificate of completion from Grassroots, you will claim the clock hours in pdEnroller. The claim code for this course is VA9-J2R.  You will upload your certificate of completion, complete the short survey, and pay for the clock hours.  Once all the steps have been completed, the clock hours will record on a pdEnroller transcript.

https://www.pdenroller.org/clockhours/claim (Link to the clock hour claim page in pdEnroller. If you don't have an account, you will have to create one).