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
- Date: March 5 & March 12, 2024 (in-person), March 28, 2024 (virtual)
- Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
- Location: Clear Sky Elementary School, PD Room (sessions 1 & 2) | 1470 Clear Sky Way, Castle Rock, 80109
- Google Meet (session 3 only):
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.