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Professional development resources for GATE
Instructional Strategies Poster Set {Marzano's 9 "High Yield" Strategies}
New teacher? Veteran teacher? Instructional Coach? These high yield strategies are perfect for all situations that involve instructing students and teachers :) Many current evaluations for teacher effectiveness measure an instructor's ability to select strategies based on a foundational evidence, in other words strategies that have been tested and researched, and why not? With as hard as we work, we should strive to use what has been proven effective. Marzano's nine high yield strategies have a
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Not Grade Specific
Gifted and Talented Activities | GATE Program Support | For Teachers or Parents
Do you have a GIFTED and TALENTED program in place?Are you looking to get started with teaching a GATE Program?This informational resource is the WHY of having a GATE Program for gifted learners.Browse a wide range of GIFTED RESOURCES and ACTIVITIES. Click the link belowGATER Educator's GIFTED Resources• Gifted learners exhibit many of the same academic needs and social and emotional characteristics. • Gifted students thrive with activities that provide novelty and opportunities to solve problem
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Gifted and Talented - Giftedness and Brain Friendly Learning
Are you looking for the best way to successfully support gifted learners in your class? Do parents want assurance that their child's needs are being met? If so, this valuable resource may be a great starting point! With over 20 years of experience as a GATE parent and teacher, this resource delivers simple ideas that can help meet the educational needs of all children. Educators are uniquely placed to make a real difference in the lives of gifted learners. Whether it’s parents asking for support
Grades:
3rd - 7th, Staff
Gifted Education Presentation to Classroom Teachers, Gifted and Talented Program
I used this to present about gifted ed to our elementary school staff. While the presentation covers everything from academic, social, and emotional needs of gifted students it also helps classroom teachers with understanding who to refer for gifted testing. Stephanie Tolan's article "Is it a Cheetah" was the main resource used for the presentation. She captures the essence of these children who maybe aren't the "teacher pleasers," but are in fact gifted and need gifted services and support i
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Staff
Increasing Student Engagement: Tools to Diversify Your Lesson Plans!
Student Engagement | Engaging Middle School | Middle School Engagement Ideas | Middle School Lesson Plans | Middle School Teaching Tools
Engaging our students is often our most challenging task as teachers. Yet we know how vital this engagement is for our students’ learning processes and motivation. The purpose of this product is to provide you with new ideas to add to your teacher toolbox.
Over 50 strategies are included!
These are all ideas that you can take directly to your class and try
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Learning Contracts with examples(Editable resource)
Learning Contracts are written agreements between students and teachers that grant the student certain freedoms and choices about completing tasks yet require the student to meet certain specifications. They outline what the students will learn, how they will learn it, how long they will have to learn it, and how they will be graded or evaluated.This 11 pages resource includes:Detailed explanation of learning contracts, and 3 different examples of learning contracts and templates
Grades:
2nd - 12th, Staff
Also included in: Gifted and Talented editable forms, presentations & PD
Differentiation for Gifted Students
This power point is perfect for a teacher of gifted and talented students to use during a faculty meeting of regular education teachers to explain what differentiation is, its misuses with gifted students, describes the types, and its effectiveness among gifted and talented students.
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Academic Achievement & Gifted Underachievers PowerPoint Professional Development
Academic Achievement and Gifted Underachievers PowerPoint. Explains the characteristics of a gifted underachiever, concerns about gifted learners who do not reach their potential, and how to help these students become successful. This is a professional development presentation to help teachers recognize and teach gifted students not meeting standards. Includes types of underachievers, suggestions for motivating students and some famous underachievers. Helpful for gifted teachers and regular clas
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Not Grade Specific
Professional Development: Teaching Students to be Critical Thinkers
Teachers love learning about Instructional Strategies that are easy to implement and provide engaging and thought-provoking opportunities for learning. The goal in this presentation was to provide teachers with simple additions to their everyday teaching that can provide that little "extra" to encourage more critical thinking in the classroom.
This presentation includes plenty of examples of how to use Inductive Reasoning, Providing Comfortable Struggle, Disabling Intuition, and Group Investi
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Not Grade Specific
High Ability/ Gifted Parent Presentation
Looking for a great presentation for parent night or to share with other teachers about what gifted/high ability program might look like? This is a ready made PowerPoint that covers the basics in a general way. You can show these slides and use them as a spring board to discuss what your specific program will look like. This presentation includes:
*Creativity *Math *Language Arts *Reading *Opportunities to Grow *Social/Emotional *Differentiation *Focus on Growth
-All 11 slides are the
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Gifted and Talented Information Meeting for Parents and Staff
This Power-point presentation very clearly and accurately explains the many characteristics and needs of gifted learners. As a school counselor, I created this presentation and have used it with both families and teachers to show the differences between gifted learners and high achievers. The presentation includes fifteen professional slides with research-based facts and accompanying cartoons or captions to help the audience relate to the content. The last slide is the testing timeline for my
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Not Grade Specific
Flipped Classroom Letter
This letter describes what a flipped classroom is, why you might incorporate flipped classroom work into your school, and data to support using a flipped classroom (from sources as listed on the document).
This document is perfect for sharing with staff when introducing a flipped classroom or for sharing with parents!
Grades:
K - 12th, Staff
The Teacher's Book of BIG Questions
When should we be asking questions?
The short answer: all the time. As teachers we’ve all fallen into the trap of giving students answers rather than encouraging them to think for themselves. Questions encourage the students to do the “heavy lifting” instead of the teachers. Plus, good questions are motivating and engaging, serving as great hooks for learning. Because we want this book to be useful to as many teachers as possible, we’ve provided questions to go along with different types of con
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Infographic Project Teacher PD with Certificate, Checklists & Resources PBL
Learn about infographics, the best pedagogy to practice teaching this digital skill, and how to design and plan a comprehensive PBL infographic project for students to practice design thinking when presenting information from their research findings. This Teacher professional development provides you with what you need and sets you up to be the infographic expert in your department, grade level, or school, PLUS earn a 2-HR Teacher PD certificate for your efforts and investment!Here's everything
Grades:
10th - 12th, Staff
GIFTED:Characteristics, challenges&interventions for ADHD/ ADD/Females/diverse
This editable resource is 4 pages covers:CharacteristicsPotential Challenges in SchoolSuggested Interventions, If Needed:Further Readingfor students that are gifted in any of the following areas:Creatively giftedCulturally DiverseGifted FemalesGifted with ADHD or ADD
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Gifted and Talented editable forms, presentations & PD
Characteristics of the Gifted Child in 1 page (editable resource)
Examining some of the characteristics of gifted children and the occasional problems associated with these characteristics may increase the understanding of what it means to be gifted, and offer insights into the daily interactions of these children. The following chart may help to clarify some of the conflicting behaviors seen in gifted children.
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Staff
Overexcitabilities as a Measure and Indicator of Giftedness
Traditionally, giftedness has been identified by administering and scoring cognitive tests, as well as those that test specific academic abilities. Research conducted by Dabrowski and other renowned psychologists indicate that "Overexcitabilities" may also be an indicator of giftedness, although a more informal, non-traditional measure. This Power Point presentation may be used as an informational tool for parents, edcuators, administrators, or as an inexpensive inservice tool to inform and ed
Grades:
Adult Education, Staff
Thinking Routines PPT
This powerpoint goes through all the Project Zero thinking routines for making thinking visible. Bold graphics and brief descriptions bring the routines to life and serve as an excellent supplement to the book,
Included in powerpoint:
7 Routines for Introducing and Exploring Ideas
7 Routines for Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas
7 Routines for Digging Deeper Into Ideas
Grades:
K - 12th
Parent workshop: Building Grit and Perseverance in the Gifted Student
Objectives of this Presentation which can be used for staff development too:-Understand the Power of Grit-Ways to Build Grit and Perseverance-Habits of a Scholar
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Staff
Also included in: Gifted and Talented editable forms, presentations & PD
High-Risk, Low Socioeconomically, Mathematically, Minority: Gifted students
This editable resource is 4 pages covers:CharacteristicsPotential Challenges in SchoolSuggested Interventions, If Needed:Further Readingfor students that are gifted in any of the following areas:High-Risk Low SocioeconomicallyMathematically Minority
Grades:
Staff
Also included in: Gifted and Talented editable forms, presentations & PD
Team Challenge
This Power Point is designed to give you as the teacher tips and strategies for implementation of Team Challenge in your classroom.
It also has additional slides meant for use with your students on instruction and debriefing. Students LOVE these activities!
Key objectives are Team building, communication, cooperation and creativity
It is a GREAT tool! Enjoy!
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Myths about the gifted and talented presentation
7 Myths of Gifted and Talented Learners and correction for each of them
Grades:
K - 12th, Staff
Also included in: Gifted and Talented editable forms, presentations & PD
How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life eb00k
Full of interactive questions and space for readers to provide answers, as well as new material for readers to assess their current type of thinking, this workbook guides readers in applying the lessons they learned from How Successful People Think or the book which it was derived from, Thinking For A Change. Each of the eleven chapters will focus on one type of thinking, and contain a case study, critical thinking questions, a journal section, and an action plan of steps to help the reader crea
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Gifted and Talented Resources
This annotated bibliography contains articles and books about the following topics:negative and unfair school practices for gifted and talented students, inclusion for gifted children, and current trends and issues in gifted education. ** Please rate my product to help me know how I can improve things in the future. **
Grades:
Staff
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