Understanding the Gifted Learner

Ended Mar 13, 2021

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Course Description

This course will provide participants with a foundational understanding of gifted learners including definitions, cognitive/affective characteristics, identification practices, and social/emotional needs. In addition, participants will analyze, plan, and implement a range of evidence-based strategies to assess gifted and talented students, to differentiate instruction, content, and assignments for them (including the use of higher-order critical and creative-thinking skills), and learn how the Response to Intervention framework can be used to identify and nurture potential.
Lead Learner (Facilitator): Michelle Oslick
Credit(s) and Type: 7.5 Hours Relicensure

Here are the outcomes for the course:

Participants will analyze and evaluate the background, history, and standards of gifted education and evaluate implications for education.
Participants will analyze and evaluate recurrent characteristics and profiles of gifted learners and evaluate strategies to address these needs.
Participants will analyze the unique social an