Breakout Session 2
Monday, October 23 - 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
There will be a snack break between Session 2 and Session 3 from 3:15-3:45.
Monday, October 23 - 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
There will be a snack break between Session 2 and Session 3 from 3:15-3:45.
Breakout EDU is a perfect strategy for gifted students! Through a series of content-based clues, students collaborate to solve problems to unlock a series of boxes. This student-centered process encourages critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication. Students have the chance to "fail forward" because every unsuccessful answer forces students to try again. Teachers have a unique opportunity to observe their students' problem-solving approach and apply their knowledge. Participants in this session will engage in a breakout session designed to unlock and entertain the gifted mind!
Administrators, Parents, Teachers Grades 6-12
Momentum 2
Participants will rethink the intended use of the model and take away practical resources to use tomorrow. Topics will relate to prompting thinking in any subject, learning conceptually, and connecting neuroscience. Clarification for use of Kaplan’s “Frame of the Disciplinarian” will also be modeled in this lively session.
Teachers K-5
Momentum 3
Would you like to increase engagement, risk-taking, and resilience in gifted learners? Join us to understand how developing a growth mindset can better meet the unique social-emotional and academic needs of gifted students by focusing on growth. Participants will leave the session understanding basic research of growth mindset, task-specific feedback, and grit. Tips and ready-to-go resources for building a common language and integrating these concepts into your school community will be shared.
Administrators, Parents, Teachers Grades K-12
Granby A
Learn essential, easy-to-integrate strategies for teaching critical and creative thinking while engaging and challenging students. You will leave with a bag of tricks to help you infuse creativity, critical thinking and high-level questioning into your lessons.
Administrators, Teachers Grades K-8
Momentum 1
Effective teaching requires a variety of effective assessment strategies. The ever-evolving Local Assessment Guidelines can work for all learners! This session will use several resources from professional standards, curriculum development, and instructional leadership to help participants evaluate local assessment guidelines for demonstrating growth and proficiency of high‐ability learners. (Intermediate Level Session)
Administrators, Teachers Grades 3-12
Energy 1
How do we inspire students to feel actively engaged? By allowing them to personalize their learning through Passion Projects. In this session, participants will learn how to introduce, manage and evaluate passion projects. Participants will receive online resources to inspire the 5 C's of learning (creative thinking, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and citizenship) in the classroom.
Administrators, Teachers Grades K-12
Fusion
This workshop explores numerous, proven ways to reach gifted learners in challenging ways. Participants leave with a variety of new strategies and specific ideas to help pupils become better creative and critical thinkers. Bring your thinking caps and your funny bones.
Administrators, Parents, Teachers Grades K-8
Energy 2
How can service learning improve rigor and instruction for gifted learners? Presenters explain how they used Kaye’s service learning stages to personalize learning with action projects serving a community need. The approach was piloted in English classrooms to develop students' empathy and experiential learning. The session concludes with a discussion of service over self in preparation of 21st century skills and college admissions.
Administrators, Parents, Teachers Grades 3-12
Adrenaline
Blended learning is one of the many buzzwords floating around the education world today. It can be especially beneficial for our gifted students as it allows us to differentiate easily. There are many different tech tools that can help you, but how do you know which ones are worthwhile? Come learn about over 30 different resources for using tech purposefully with our gifted students to reach them inside and outside of the classroom. You’ll walk out of this session with a lot of new resources that you can begin using as soon as you get back to school.
Administrators, Teachers Grades 3-12
Granby B
Teachers of the gifted/talented can be overwhelmed by the number and variety of systems, models and authors offering guidance in providing differentiated instruction to students. This session will provide participants with a synthesis of several major works from the fields of psychology, gifted education and general education, illuminating the parallels across works of Dabrowski, Hirsch, Adler, Gallagher, Renzulli, Kaplan, Bloom, Sternberg, Wiggins & McTighe and others. Educators perceiving this understand that differentiation is actually doable.
Teachers Grades K-12 (Intermediate Level Session)
Granby C