Raise the College/Career Bar for Gifted Students

Description:

• Skill gaps cannot be our only instructional focus. Instruction must include rigorous, scaffolded, supplemental curriculum. Teachers need PD to master instructing backwards (to remediate) and simultaneously forwards (for rigor) so that gifted students academic promise can be reached. 
• Participants will reflect and design a pro-active plan meeting gifted college and career objectives, learn instructional best practices, and debate implementation models. Attendees will focus on three levels of 55 scaffolded power standards that can be integrated for gifted rigor.
• All grade 6-12 educators are encouraged to attend this highly interactive session. Sample gifted student supplemental lesson plans will be distributed.

Attendees will:

1. Master meeting the needs of remedial, average and gifting learners in the same class by using adaptive, scaffolded, data-informed supplemental curriculum providing equal time for students of all ability levels
2. Learn what PD can do for teachers who raise the College and Career academic achievement of the gifted learner
3. Receive best practices on how to accelerate College/Career Readiness for all students in the classroom