WOW - NAGC's Webinars on Wednesday

Mini Series for Spring

• Planting and Growing Differentiation in the Classroom 

• ^CANCELLEDBullying—What Every Educator and Parent Needs to Know 

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It takes constant work to “cultivate” a successful differentiated classroom. Designed for both the advanced teacher needing to “enrich their soil” and those desiring to learn the “perennial” basics, this is a series of three webinars about an “evergreen” topic. You’ll gather “seeds” for your own professional growth and learn from, and ask questions of, experts in the “field.”

Cost per webinar: $39 for NAGC members/$59 for nonmembers

Series Site License for Spring 2013/Differentiation: $199/includes 12- month access to the sessions in this mini series 
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Check out this series:

As we all know, a differentiated classroom doesn’t just happen. It takes work. This webinar is designed to help you work smarter, to focus on those necessary elements that must be in place for a classroom to be effectively differentiated. Strategies are definitely a part, but differentiation is more than a set of lessons or skills. From practical tips on classroom management to the philosophical components of differentiation, this webinar helps you envision and  even plan your own classrooms designed to meet the needs, interests, and readiness levels of your students.

An excellent way to challenge gifted children is to match learning experiences to their readiness or ability levels. Most teachers already have tools in their toolkit to help them do that – a working knowledge of Bloom’s Taxonomy and experience with Venn diagrams. Unfortunately, they might not be utilizing these tools to their greatest advantage, and oftentimes, well-meaning teachers are even using them incorrectly. This webinar will sharpen those tools showing educators how to use Venn diagrams in tiered assignments and Bloom’s Taxonomy in menus, centers, and questioning to differentiate and provide appropriate challenge.

As we venture forward with the framework of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), it is evident that advanced levels of thinking are central to our students’ readiness for post-secondary and careers of the 21st century.  Our students’ future is full of new and complex problems that will require more refined multifaceted solutions.  This engaging session will show participants how to set up a classroom that stimulates and encourages students to think and persist toward decision making.  During the WOW, strategies and ideas for how to address the CCSS levels of thinking will be presented.  For teachers, questioning typologies will be offered along with rubrics for assessing students’ thinking development.  For gifted and advanced learners, designs of sophisticated levels of complex thinking will be recommended.

BONUS

Access to “Getting Started in a Differentiated Classroom,” an NAGC WOW in the Live Learning Center

Jennifer Beasley (University of Arkansas) provides beginning tools and strategies needed to create a more responsive classroom, and explains how the principles of differentiation can be used as a lens for producing high-quality curriculum. 

Spring 2013 Mini Series: Bullying—What Every Educator and Parent Needs to Know

CANCELLED (To be rescheduled in the fall/winter)

NAGC Webinars on Wednesday

• bring high quality professional development to your desktop

  Access all prior WOW sessions at the NAGC Live Learning Center

• require no travel! Don’t let funding challenges or travel restrictions keep you from getting the training and information you need to be effective.
• are designed for classroom teachers, counselors, graduate students, parents, g/t coordinators, and administrators
• connect you to experts in the field who will share practical advice, as well as updates on the latest issues in gifted education.
• bring top-notch educational content to your home, office, or teachers’ lounge
• are held "live" via the Internet, giving you the ability to listen,view slides, access handouts, and pose questions to presenters for just $39 per session for NAGC members!

Convenient. Relevant. Affordable.

Winter 2013 Series - Common Core Conversations

Seven webinars designed to offer teachers and district coordinators the opportunity to listen in on a variety of approaches and explore strategies and practices for implementing the CCSS in the classroom while modifying them for advanced learners.

• Bloom’s Taxonomy as Easy as Pie: Infusing Critical Thinking Within the Common Core
  Presenter: Susan Dulong Langley, Framingham Public Schools, Framingham, MA
• Adapting the Writing Common Core for Gifted Learners
  Presenters: Claire Hughes, College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick, GA; Debra Troxclair, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
• Un“Common” Creativity: Infusing Creative Thinking Across The Common Core
  Presenter: Susan Dulong Langley, Framingham Public Schools, Framingham, MA
• Implementing the Common Core State Standards with Various Program Models in Gifted Education
  Presenters: Alicia Cotabish, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR; Bronwyn MacFarlane, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR
• Creativity and Complexity in Math and Science
  Presenter: Cheryll M. Adams, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
• Selecting Literature for Gifted Learners in Light of the Common Core State Standards
  Presenter: Penny Britton Kolloff, Illinois State University, Eau Claire, WI
• Educating Primary Gifted Students: Analyzing Nonfiction Books with a Focus on Higher-Level Skill Development
  Presenter: Kimberley Chandler, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA