Course

Understanding the Gifted Learner March 2024

Ended Apr 10, 2024

Spots remaining: 19

Full course description

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 iMTSS framework can be used to identify and nurture potential.
  • Lead Learner (Facilitator): Michelle Lewis
  • Credit(s) and Type: 7.5 Hours Relicensure | Staff Development

 

Target Audience

  • Admin/Pro-Tech, Certified Staff, Classified Staff
  • Open to Substitute Teachers = Yes
  • Open to Student Teachers = Yes
  • Open to Charter School Staff = Yes 
    • Charter Certified and Classified

 

Date, Time, and Location

 

Course Outcomes

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 and emotional needs of gifted learners and evaluate strategies to address these needs.