Guest presenter Andi McNair is a leader in gifted education in Texas and beyond. She hails from Waco, Texas and can claim multiple titles: Gifted Education Consultant/Specialist, Innovative Idea Strategist, Educator, Author, and International Keynote Speaker. In 2016 the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences named her one of the “Top People in Education to Watch.”
Today's training is based on her book Designing for Depth in the Classroom.
To learn more about Andi and her work, visit https://www.andimcnair.com/ or follow a_meaningful_mess on Instagram.
Many of the books pictured below can be found in NISD campus libraries. Any book about differentiation by Carol Ann Tomlinson is a winner!
In addition to these books, check out NISD's Differentation Site. This site is maintained by the elementary GT Specialists. It is a work in progress.
Guest presenter, Emily Mofield, Ed.D., is an Assistant Professor of Education serving as Lead Faculty for the Gifted and Advanced Academics Graduate Program at Lipscomb University in Tennessee. She has written several articles and books, her most recent being Vertical Differentiation: 25 Strategies to Stretch Student Thinking and A Teacher's Guide to Curriculum Design for Gifted and Advanced Learners.
Shared understanding of differentiation.
Understand the importance of flexible grouping.
Discover a variety of preassessment techniques and create some products.
Learn about curriculum compacting or tiered instruction create a product.