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PRESENTER |
TAGT CORE AREA |
AUDIENCE |
GRADE LEVEL |
| AP Language, You bet it’s GT! |
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Kathryn Pabst |
Instructional Strategies |
All |
Secondary |
Kathryn Pabst introduces you to her unique flavor of the AP Language class. She
gives examples and includes sample lessons available through a downloadable packet.
She then invites you to find your passion and implement it to your own AP Language
curriculum. |
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Integrating Social/Emotional Awareness into Your Classroom |
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Ian Byrd |
Social & Emotional |
All |
All |
We need to differentiate for gifted minds, but also for unique personalities. Learn
to deal with the social challenges of introversion and adapt instruction for their
intuitive thinking. Arm yourself with an understanding of these unique personality
traits and set the stage to improve your studentsâ?? learning, socializing, and happiness. |
| Motivation and Underachievement |
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James Webb, Ph.D. |
Social & Emotional |
All |
All |
Many gifted children underachieve and have problems with motivation. Motivation,
far more than intellectual ability or creativity, can be influenced, shaped, and
developed. Learn the most common reasons for motivational problems, and then focuses
on practical â??how toâ? techniques useful for parents and teachers of all children,
but particularly appropriate for the gifted. Transfer of motivation, successive
successes, anticipatory praise, and similar techniques are used to develop internalized
motivation, appropriate goal-setting, and tolerance of frustration. |
| RED ALERT: Gifted Education as a Civil Right |
Deborah Mersino, Ingeniosus |
Other |
All |
All |
Fast forward ten years. It is 2022. How are our gifted and talented learners faring
in the United States? If our federal and state governments, boards of education,
and communities continue along current pathways, we might as well start mourning
now. We can change this trajectory, though. This session will focus specifically
on what the gifted education movement needs to address â?? and how â?? in order to change
the collective futures of our brightest young minds. Come to be inspired, to learn
more about 21st Century advocacy, and discover the tools and outlook parents, educators,
students, and community members will need to embrace for success. |
| Understanding Young Gifted Children with Advanced Abilities |
Dr. Debra Troxclair, Lamar University |
Nature & Needs |
All |
Primary |
The purpose of this presentation is to provide information about giftedness to early
childhood professionals and others so that they can identify giftedness in young
children in order to assure proper social, emotional, and cognitive development
in children with high abilities so that those youngsters may achieve their maximum
potential. |
| Thinking Outside the Book |
Sheila Mulbry & Nicole Shannon, Round Rock ISD |
Creativity & Instructional Strategies |
Teachers |
Elementary, Middle School |
Do you want your gifted students to deepen their responses to texts they read? Walk
away from this session with a plethora of ideas to guide your students toward creating
complex and unique products in response to quality literature. Learn to incorporate
a variety of media, differentiate responses by learning profiles, and push your
students toward thinking and creating outside the book. |
| Whole Brain Visual Thinking: Building a New Level of Cognition |
Timothy Gangwer, Visual Teaching Alliance |
Creativity & Instructional Strategies |
All |
All |
Topics for this presentation include defining “Visual Teaching” and looking at the
current research on, and definitions and characteristics of: Socratic teaching,
inquiry-based instruction and technology, Parallel Curriculum model, Depth and Complexity,
Thinking Processes, Mind Maps, Graphic Organizers, Whole Brain Thinking, Visual
Representation, and reading visual thoughts. We will focus on educator strategies,
while complementing the four strands of the G/T curriculum framework “Scholars and
Knowledge.” |
| Opening the Doors of Opportunity for Low SES Gifted Students: Building Verbal Intelligence |
Dr. Joyce Juntune, Texas A&M University |
Creativity & Instructional Strategies |
All |
All |
While we have spent energy on finding and implementing a variety of identification
procedures to ensure that gifted children from poverty are identified for our gifted
programs, much less energy has been put into building the skills for their success
that will enable them to stay and flourish in the gifted program. During this session,
we will share the findings that started this research at Texas A&M University and
the interventions being implemented in El Paso ISD to change the way we view and
serve gifted students from poverty. |
| Identifying Talent: Developing a More Effective and Inclusive Screening Process |
Dr. David Lohman, University of Iowa |
Identification & Assessment |
G/T Administrators, Counselors & Diagnosticians |
All |
Most school districts screen students for possible inclusion in their talent-development
programs. Students who score well on the screening test are considered for special
educational programming using other information on the match between their needs,
interests, and abilities, and the services that the school offers. The purpose of
this session is show how to design a screening program that avoids the twin pitfalls
of failing to identify students who should be included or wrongly including students
who do not need special services. Examples of exemplary practices and common pitfalls
will be illustrated using the CogAT Form 7 Screening Form. |
| Strategies for Building Academic Literacy in Gifted Students Raised in Poverty |
Dr. Joyce Juntune, Texas A&M University |
Creativity & Instructional Strategies |
Teachers & Administrators |
Primary, Elementary, Middle School |
This â??hands-onâ? session will introduce participants to the strategies we are using
to develop academic literacy in children raised in poverty. We will discuss the
rationale behind these strategies and suggestions for integrating them into regular
classroom teaching. Come prepared to participant, ask questions, share ideas, and
learn. |
| Serving TAG Students in the Regular Classroom |
Daniel Brillhart & Nicole Shannon |
Creativity & Instructional Strategies |
Teachers & Administrators |
Primary, Elementary, Middle School |
Participants will learn about how TAG students can be served within the regular
classroom without simply “adding more work.” Instead, depth and complexity will
be discussed and projects and products shared, with demonstration of specific instructional
activities in language arts and mathematics. |
