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Professional Development
The PVschools Gifted Education Dept. supports teachers and administrators seeking to understand and effectively address the academic, social, and emotional needs of the District’s gifted students. Ongoing professional development opportunities are scheduled throughout the school year through workshops, inservices, staff meeting presentations and university coursework. These offerings cover a variety of topics related to the curriculum and instruction and affective concerns, of gifted students in the elementary, middle and high school years.
Spring / Summer 2012 Professional Development in Gifted Education
Parent and Teacher Evening Presentations
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Building Partnerships Between Home and School
With nationally acclaimed author and expert in Gifted Education, Arlene DeVries
Tues., Jan. 17, 2012, in the PVUSD Governing Board Rm.
- Parenting Precocious Kids: Understanding the ups and downs of growing up gifted
With nationally acclaimed author and expert in Gifted Education, Dr. Jim Delisle
Mon., Jan. 30, 2012, in the PVUSD Governing Board Rm.
Teacher Workshops
- Differentiation requires H.O.P.E.: Opening new doors of learning to every gifted student (Heart, Outlook, Procedures and Expectations)
with Dr. Jim Deslile
- The Schoolwide Cluster Grouping Model (Both Online and face-to-face versions. Book included.)
- Teaching Strategies for the Gifted Cluster Classroom (Online)
- Going Digital! (Online Version!)
- 4 Level Grammar, Making Grammar Fun!
- Nonfiction Here We Come: Higher Order Thinking through Document Based Questions (Books will be provided.)
- Reaching All Learners: Making Differentiation Work for Gifted Students (Dr. Bertie Kingore's book of the same title is provided.)
- Using Khan Academy to Differentiate Math
- Khan Academy II: Using Math Data
- Making Students the Star: The Gift of YouTube
- Advancing Differentiation: Thinking and Learning in the 21st Century (Dr. Richard Cash's book of the same title is provided.)
- GAMES, GAMES, GAMES! Using Games to Promote Critical and Creative Thinking!
- Teaching in the Cluster Grouping Model
- Non-Verbal Identification of Giftedness: Using the Test Results to Guide Instruction
- Gifted Students in the Middle: Understanding & Responding to their Learning Needs
Summer 2012 Workshops
 Download Summer 2012 Professional Development Opportunities (PDF)
(F2F & Online)
- The Schoolwide Cluster Grouping Model (Online Version!) The Schoolwide Cluster Grouping Model is an inclusive model that provides full-time services to all gifted students, facilitates improved achievement for all students, and requires no significant additional funding. Learn how to implement and support the SCGM, group students for maximum achievement potential, teach in the model, and build parental support. Examine data showing academic growth for gifted and non-gifted students in the SCGM.
| Instructors: |
Dina Brulles & Karen Brown |
| Dates: |
Summer |
| Time: |
Anytime |
| Location: |
pvLearners, Gifted Resource Site |
| Participants: |
Gifted Cluster Teachers, Gifted Specialists, Honors Teachers, all Teachers |
| Contact Hrs.: |
2 hrs. |
| Registration: |
Course Wizard |
- Teaching Strategies for the Gifted Cluster Classroom (Online Version!) This workshop describes highly effective and easy-to-manage techniques teachers at all grade levels can use to motivate and challenge students to move forward at their own achievement levels in gifted cluster classes. Several methods described allow gifted students to document their previous mastery of grade-level standards. Other methods facilitate faster pacing and more rigor for students who need less practice with grade-level standards. Classroom management techniques also help the teacher operative in a differentiated classroom with comfort and efficiency.
| Instructors: |
Dina Brulles & Karen Brown, with Susan Winebrenner (virtually) |
| Dates: |
Summer |
| Time: |
Anytime |
| Location: |
pvLearners, Gifted Resource Site |
| Participants: |
Gifted Cluster Teachers, Gifted Specialists, Honors Teachers, all Teachers |
| Contact Hrs.: |
2 hrs. |
| Registration: |
Course Wizard |
- Going Digital! (Online Version!) Cultivating world-class thinkers requires building digital literacy. Innovative use of technology becomes tantamount to gifted students’ academic success as the need for digital literacy increases. In this workshop, you will explore a variety of digital resources, select a few of interests, and create a plan to utilize the site or information with your gifted students.
| Instructors: |
Dina Brulles & Karen Brown |
| Dates: |
Summer |
| Time: |
Anytime |
| Location: |
pvLearners, Gifted Resource Site |
| Participants: |
Gifted Cluster Teachers, Gifted Specialists, Honors Teachers, all Teachers |
| Contact Hrs.: |
2 hrs. |
| Registration: |
Course Wizard |
- Teaching in the Schoolwide Cluster Grouping Model. This workshop provides an overview of The Schoolwide Cluster Grouping Model and highlights instructional strategies for adapting regular classroom curriculum and activities to meet the learning needs of high ability learners. Participants will learn to:
- Organize and manage the gifted cluster classroom
- Make class placements
- Build support in the school community
- Differentiate curriculum and instructional in the gifted cluster classroom
- Build and share lesson extensions with other cluster teachers
- Monitor academic progress of gifted students
- Evaluate effectiveness of the model
Participants will receive The Cluster Grouping Handbook.
| Instructors: |
Dina Brulles |
| Dates: |
Thursday, May 31 |
| Time: |
1 - 4 p.m. |
| Location: |
CRC, Ivory room |
| Participants: |
Gifted Cluster Teachers, Gifted Specialists, all Teachers K-12 |
| Contact Hrs.: |
3 hrs. |
| Registration: |
Course Wizard |
- Interactive and Fun: Vocabulary Activities That Engage. Learn how to easily and quickly add to your students’ academic and general vocabulary through activities that are engaging, hands-on, interactive, and fun. Learn to use games like Jeopardy, Family Feud, Who Am I, or Which One Doesn't Belong? in building vocabulary. Make it fun and educational. Leave with ready to use activities.
| Instructors: |
Karen Bodin |
| Dates: |
Monday, June 4 |
| Time: |
1 - 4 p.m. |
| Location: |
CRC, Ivory room |
| Participants: |
Cluster teachers, Gifted Specialists, All Teachers |
| Contact Hrs.: |
3 hrs. |
| Registration: |
Course Wizard |
- Grammar in Minutes A Day, Taking the Next Step! 4 Level Sentences are a comprehensive and time efficient way to increase grammar skills. High ability learners must have a strong grammatical base if vocabulary instruction is to be successful. Take the next step and expand your knowledge base! Make the vocabulary connections your students need to succeed.
| Instructors: |
Karen Brown |
| Dates: |
Tuesday, June 5 |
| Time: |
1 - 4 p.m. |
| Location: |
CRC, Ivory room |
| Participants: |
Gifted Cluster Teachers, Gifted Specialists, Honors Teachers, All Teachers K-8 |
| Contact Hrs.: |
3 hrs. |
| Registration: |
Course Wizard |
- Developing Tiered Assignments & Extensions Menus to Increase Challenge Levels Through Depth and Complexity. Work with fellow teachers to create lessons that incorporate varied levels of depth and complexity. This guided workshop will develop tiered assignments and extension menus incorporating Bloom’s Taxonomy. The lessons, archived by grade level and content area, will be added to an online repository and made available to cluster teachers throughout the District.
| Instructors: |
Karen Bodin |
| Dates: |
Wednesday, June 6 |
| Time: |
1 - 4 p.m. |
| Location: |
CRC, Ivory room |
| Participants: |
Teachers K-12 |
| Contact Hrs.: |
2 hrs. |
| Registration: |
Course Wizard |
- Advancing Differentiation: Thinking and Learning in the 21st Century. Do you differentiate instruction? Are you ready to take it to the next level? Go beyond basic strategies and gain the tools to build a more rigorous differentiation curriculum and infuse your instruction with the thinking skills essential to your students’ success in the new century. This advanced guidance will transform the way you teach and the way your students learn. Participants will receive Dr. Richard Cash’s new book by this title.
| Instructors: |
Karen Brown & Elizabeth Warner |
| Dates: |
Thursday, June 7 |
| Time: |
1 - 4 p.m. |
| Location: |
CRC, Ivory room |
| Participants: |
K-8 teachers, Gifted Specialists, All Teachers K-12 |
| Contact Hrs.: |
3 hrs. |
| Registration: |
Course Wizard |
- Let's Talk Assessment: The "How" and "Why" of Formative and Summative Assessment in a Differentiated Classroom. Get off the assessment roller-coaster, learn authentic assessment strategies that allow your students to demonstrate their knowledge. Share strategies for the assessment of project based learning activities, learn how to assess those extension activities! Don't let assessment bog down your instruction — learn how to use it, rather than it using you!
| Instructors: |
Karen Brown |
| Dates: |
Monday, June 11 |
| Time: |
1 - 4 p.m. |
| Location: |
CRC, Ivory room |
| Participants: |
Teachers K-12 |
| Contact Hrs.: |
3 hrs. |
| Registration: |
Course Wizard |
- GAMES, GAMES, GAMES II! Using Games to Promote Critical and Creative Thinking! Come one, come all! Learn how to play a variety of games designed to excite your students. The list of challenging games is endless so let’s play them! SET, “24”, SET Cubed, You’ve Been Sentenced, Quiddler, Blokus, Othello, Quarto, Pentago, Dicecapades, Head Full of Numbers, Blurt, and more! Leave with a Game to Play!
| Instructors: |
Karen Brown |
| Dates: |
Tuesday, June 12 |
| Time: |
1 - 4 p.m. |
| Location: |
CRC, Ivory room |
| Participants: |
All Teachers |
| Contact Hrs.: |
3 hrs. |
| Registration: |
Course Wizard |
| Capacity: |
25 |
- Reaching All Learners: Making Differentiation Work for Gifted Students
Use Bertie Kingore’s latest book, Reaching All Learners: Making Differentiation Work, to reach, engage, and challenge all students in your mixed ability class. Participants will receive a copy of the book, and will have time for guided lesson planning using the strategies and activities modeled in this workshop.
| Instructors: |
Karen Bodin |
| Dates: |
Wednesday, June 13 |
| Time: |
1 - 4 p.m. |
| Location: |
CRC, Ivory room |
| Participants: |
K-8 Teachers, Gifted Specialist, Cluster Teachers |
| Contact Hrs.: |
3 hrs. |
| Registration: |
Course Wizard |
- Using Khan Academy to Differentiate Math. Teachers in PV schools and around the world are recognizing the value of supplementing math instruction using the Khan Academy. In the first half of this workshop the instructor will demonstrate how Khan Academy is being used in an Honors math class. This includes examining first quarter student data and sharing ways to incorporate Khan Academy into the practice and content delivery aspects of your curriculum. In the second half of the class, participants will explore using Khan Academy as if they were students. Experience the power of seeing real time data to document progress, motivate students, and build perseverance in your students. Participants will become comfortable with the facility in which the Khan Academy can support differentiated instruction through remediation and acceleration. Bring your laptops!
- Project Based Learning: The What and the How To. A Common Core-based approach built upon authentic learning activities that engage student interest and motivation in interdisciplinary learning. A well-designed project provokes students to encounter (and struggle with) the central concepts and principles of disciplines. PBL teaches students 21st century skills. These skills include communication and presentation skills, organization and time management skills, research and inquiry skills, self-assessment and reflection skills, and group participation and leadership skills. Explore the elements of PBL and design a project to engage your students in 21st Century Skills and your content. Bring content material and laptop.
| Instructors: |
Karen Brown |
| Dates: |
Wednesday, June 20 & 27 (Participants must attend both days.) |
| Time: |
1 - 4 p.m. |
| Location: |
CRC, Ivory room |
| Participants: |
Teachers K-8 |
| Contact Hrs.: |
6 hrs. |
| Registration: |
Course Wizard |
- Nonfiction Here We Come: Higher Order Thinking through Document Based Questions. Does fictional text dominate your curriculum? Learn a great way to infuse your reading instruction with Document Based Lessons. This workshop will introduce you to Document Based Questions, a motivating and easy way to bring non-fiction to life in your classroom. Don’t miss this chance to learn how to use primary and secondary source documents and promote higher-level critical thinking skills. Participants will receive a set of books.
| Instructors: |
Karen Brown and Elizabeth Warner |
| Dates: |
Tuesday, June 26 |
| Time: |
1 - 4 p.m. |
| Location: |
CRC, Ivory room |
| Participants: |
GT Cluster Teachers, GT Specialists, Honors Teachers, Teachers 2nd-8th |
| Contact Hrs.: |
3 hrs. |
| Registration: |
Course Wizard |
- Understanding Giftedness: How the Identification Relates to Teaching and Learning. Learn what the gifted identification tells us and discover ways teachers can respond to their gifted students’ needs. Topics include: identification, characteristics, social, emotional, and academic needs and challenges.
| Instructors: |
Karen Bodin |
| Dates: |
Thursday, June 28 |
| Time: |
1 - 4 p.m. |
| Location: |
CRC, Ivory room |
| Participants: |
Teachers K-12 |
| Contact Hrs.: |
3 hrs. |
| Registration: |
Course Wizard |
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