2023-2024 NPESC Gifted PD On Demand
Self-paced professional development and reflection
PLEASE EMAIL REFLECTION RESPONSES TO YOUR DISTRICT'S COORDINATOR:
- Brandi Goodwin: BGoodwin@npesc.org
- Susan Capucini: SCapucini@npesc.org
- Geneen Morrison: GMorrison@npesc.org
If you are from a non-member district, please send your work to Brandi Goodwin.
Listen to the 22 minute podcast "Guiding Gifted Kids" with guest James T. Webb, Ph.D.
Once you are done listening, discuss some of the special needs of gifted students who have had in your clasroom. Do you agree tht is can be difficult to identify gifted students?
1 HOUR GIFTED COMPETENCY C & D
PLEASE EMAIL REFLECTION RESPONSES TO YOUR DISTRICT'S COORDINATOR:
Brandi Goodwin: BGoodwin@npesc.org
Susan Capucini: SCapucini@npesc.org
Geneen Morrison: GMorrison@npesc.org
If you are from a non-member district, please send your work to Brandi Goodwin.
This Child is Gifted...Now What?
1 hour Webinar with Adam Laningham,
Learn about a variety of gifted service models based upon your building or district resources and strengths
- Content replacement (GIS as teacher of record)
- Subject acceleration - "Walk Up to Math"
- Gifted clustering - clusters of 4 to 8 gifted students per class; thoughtful placement of all students, especially multi-exceptional
- Enrichment - Intervention Time
- Self-contained (application)/Magnet school (music, STEM, etc.)
Consider criteria for participation in advanced learner options in your district
Photo credit: arizonagifted.org
(watch at 1.5x speed for faster viewing)
- Create a Mind Map summarizing the learning you gained from this webinar,
OR
- Write an essay describing your district's current opportunities for service in your building and how you might build the continuum of gifted services into a wider range of opportunities for advanced learners.
Email your final product to your district gifted coordinator.
2 HOUR - COMPETENCY B, C, G
CogAT Ability Profile: Understanding Students' Cognitive Strengths
1 hour Webinar with Adam Laningham,
Dive into the CogAT Abiltity Profile and identify instructional implications from each student's unique ability code. Discover how to build upon your students' relative strengths in reasoning and bolster opportunities for support and growth.
Where to start?
Gain a sneak peak of the Educational Support reference sheets for your students' ability profiles that are being launched in September 2023!
- CogAT scores are available in your students' cumulative files or from your district's gifted coordinator.
- Pick two students from your class---a gifted learner and (if applicable) a general education student with a very different ability profile
- Interpret their unique ability profiles, describe their learner characteristics and compare to what you observe in the classroom, and explain how you might differentiate learning experiences for each using the instructional suggestions found by entering each code at www.cogat.com .
- Email your reflections for each student to your district gifted coordinator.
2 HOURS - COMPETENCY A, E, F
Photo credit: Riverside Insights
PLEASE EMAIL REFLECTION RESPONSES TO YOUR DISTRICT'S COORDINATOR:
Brandi Goodwin: BGoodwin@npesc.org
Susan Capucini: SCapucini@npesc.org
Geneen Morrison: GMorrison@npesc.org
If you are from a non-member district, please send your work to Brandi Goodwin.
iNTENSITIES IN THE CLASSROOM
Read the "Intensities in the Classroom" Lesson Plan by Mensa for Kids. Describe a lesson and how you would introduce this to gifted students in your classroom.
2 HOURS - COMPETENCY D
PLEASE EMAIL REFLECTION RESPONSES TO YOUR DISTRICT'S COORDINATOR:
Brandi Goodwin: BGoodwin@npesc.org
Susan Capucini: SCapucini@npesc.org
Geneen Morrison: GMorrison@npesc.org
If you are from a non-member district, please send your work to Brandi Goodwin.
OVEREXCITABILITY IN GIFTED STUDENTS
Watch the google slide presentation, Overexcitabilty in Gifted Students.
Pick two excitabilities and explain how you would extend a lesson for these gifted students.
2 HOURS - COMPETENCY A & D
PLEASE EMAIL REFLECTION RESPONSES TO YOUR DISTRICT'S COORDINATOR:
Brandi Goodwin: BGoodwin@npesc.org
Susan Capucini: SCapucini@npesc.org
Geneen Morrison: GMorrison@npesc.org
If you are from a non-member district, please send your work to Brandi Goodwin.
FROM HIGH POTENTIAL TO GIFTED PERFORMANCE: Encouraging Academically Talented Urban Students
Read the High Potential article by S. Reis and M. Morales-Taylor. After reading this 11 page article, respond to this link: 4 A's Response. Respond to the article and the Schoolwide Enrichment Triad Model (SEM) on issues you agree and/or argue with, ideas you aspire to, and assumptions you may have made.
2 HOURS - Competencies A & E
PLEASE EMAIL REFLECTION RESPONSES TO YOUR DISTRICT'S COORDINATOR:
Brandi Goodwin: BGoodwin@npesc.org
Susan Capucini: SCapucini@npesc.org
Geneen Morrison: GMorrison@npesc.org
If you are from a non-member district, please send your work to Brandi Goodwin.
Redefining Talent: Strategies for Equitably Developing Talent in Kids
Watch this 53 minute webinar: Redefining Talent to learn how to create learning environments rich in opportunites for all students to boost their confidence and to develop talents in multiple areas. Listen to presenter Lee Hancock as he describes how to:
- Redefine talent
- Review how we can be more equitable in discovering and developing talent in kids
- Discuss the importance of the learning environment and its impact on talent development
- Provide practical, research-based ways to create an impactful learning environment for all kids
After watching this webinar, in a one paragraph essay, discuss how talent is a lifelong pursuit and ideas to differentiate instruciton to help kids move purposefully through that journey to make the most of their talents.
2 HOURS: COMPETENCIES A & E
PLEASE EMAIL REFLECTION RESPONSES TO YOUR DISTRICT'S COORDINATOR:
Brandi Goodwin: BGoodwin@npesc.org
Susan Capucini: SCapucini@npesc.org
Geneen Morrison: GMorrison@npesc.org
If you are from a non-member district, please send your work to Brandi Goodwin.
Neurodivergent and Gifted: Supporting Twice-Exceptional Students
This 57 minute webinar, Twice-Exceptional, discusses that twice-exceptional (2e) learners' giftedness hide their struggles. Other times, their disability overshadows their giftedness, leaving them without the opportunity for advanced learning.
During this webinar, Emily Kircher-Morris, M.A., M.Ed., LPC, author of Teaching Twice-Exceptional Learners in Today’s Classroom, discusses:
- The attributes of 2e learners
- Considerations for assessments and identification
- How to identify and provide appropriate accommodations in gifted, general, and special education classrooms
Adapt a current assessment to incorporates these attributs and considerations. This will develop strategies to use strengths-based accommodates to give 2e learners the chance to succeed that they deserve.
2 HOURS - COMPETENCIES A, F and G
PLEASE EMAIL REFLECTION RESPONSES TO YOUR DISTRICT'S COORDINATOR:
Brandi Goodwin: BGoodwin@npesc.org
Susan Capucini: SCapucini@npesc.org
Geneen Morrison: GMorrison@npesc.org
If you are from a non-member district, please send your work to Brandi Goodwin.
Achieving Equity Through Student Self-Advocacy
During this 58 minute webinar, Self-Advocacy, gifted education experts Joy Lawson Davis, Ed.D., and Deb Douglas, M.S., explain how to better support underreprensented gifted learners as they break through barriers to self-advocacy and follow their dreams.
- Discover ways to encourage and support the self-advocacy of gifted learners from underrepresented populations
- Recognize ways that the self-advocacy needs of students from special populations may differ from those of the gifted stereotype
- Identify the barriers to self-advocacy of gifted learners from underrepresented populations
- Examine the four steps to successful self-advocacy
Develop a way to allow students participation in their WEPs. This The learner profile should include an explanation of self-advocacy to the students and allow them to develop a statement that describes their goals and highlight their experiences.
2 HOURS - COMPETENCIES D, E AND H
PLEASE EMAIL REFLECTION RESPONSES TO YOUR DISTRICT'S COORDINATOR:
Brandi Goodwin: BGoodwin@npesc.org
Susan Capucini: SCapucini@npesc.org
Geneen Morrison: GMorrison@npesc.org
If you are from a non-member district, please send your work to Brandi Goodwin.
Read the article, Teaching for High Potential that explains how important differentiation is for gifted students who are culturally and lignuistically diverse. Make a choice board, (use a previous one) and modify it so that it has Culturally Responsive Considerations (see Figure 2 in the article).
2 HOURS - COMPETENCIES C AND D
PLEASE EMAIL REFLECTION RESPONSES TO YOUR DISTRICT'S COORDINATOR:
Brandi Goodwin: BGoodwin@npesc.org
Susan Capucini: SCapucini@npesc.org
Geneen Morrison: GMorrison@npesc.org
If you are from a non-member district, please send your work to Brandi Goodwin.