Audience: Gifted Resource Teachers/Gifted Cluster Teachers (Elementary)/ELL Teachers/School Admin and Counselors

Presenters: Dr. Jean Cunningham, Second Grade Teacher &

Dr. Kristin Pender, GRT – Holland Elementary

Description: The purpose of this session is to provide teachers with a toolbox of strategies and resources to reach English Language Learners (ELL) and gifted students. The participants will learn about differentiation strategies to potentially help identify ELL students as gifted. This session will highlight the successful strategies and resources used to increase the identification rate of ELL students.

Audience: Gifted Resource Teachers/Gifted Cluster Teachers (Secondary)

Presenter: Ashley Smith, GRT – Landstown Middle School

Description: Documentary-making provides students with an opportunity to go beyond memorizing facts by encouraging learning through research, identifying and understanding multiple perspectives, evaluating, and creating a product using their new knowledge. Annually, the news network C-SPAN hosts a national student documentary contest, and this project did all the above! Learn how one cluster teacher managed the project and utilized support from the school’s Gifted Resource Teacher, Library Media Specialist, and Instructional Technology Specialist.

Audience: Gifted Resource Teachers/Gifted Cluster Teachers (All levels)

Presenter: Dr. Dornswalo Wilkins- McCorey, Gifted Programs Coordinator

Sun-Siret Betancourt, GRT - New Castle Elementary

Description: Kaplan’s Icons/Prompts allow for teachers and specialists to create high quality curriculum in collaborative sessions. The gifted cluster teacher can teach the content and the gifted resource teacher can personalize the learning. The new prompts are impact, process, motive, proof, context, translate, original and judgment. This session will highlight Kaplan’s Icons/Prompts to demonstrate how to get a deeper understanding of content while creating quality curriculum and authentic tasks. The presenter will provide a brief teaching of the original prompts and show implementation of Kaplan’s work into the gifted classroom via video and student work. Prior knowledge is required.

Audience: Gifted Resource Teachers/Gifted Cluster Teachers (All levels)

Presenter: Barbara Kimpan, GRT – Glenwood ES

Description: Participants will be introduced to the instructional strategy, Paul's Reasoning Model, and have the opportunity to explore the eight components of the model. Participants will learn how these components are related to critical thinking using both fiction and non-fiction texts and given time to explore the model and examples.