Outstanding Strategies That Highlight:

• Dozens of ways to more effectively differentiate instruction that result in greater depth, complexity and challenge for your gifted students
• Assessment practices that encourage more advanced learners to produce more rigorous and challenging work
• Practical, easy to manage ways to flexibly group students to better target instructional needs and student interests
• How to plan and deliver highly effective, creative, challenging lessons in 30 minutes or less
• The latest research from the neurosciences and what it means for the gifted learners in your classroom
• How to more effectively create and use tiered lessons and extensions to provide appropriate challenge for every student, especially your gifted learners
• Strategies to work in positive ways with the gifted parent, create knowledgeable mentors and useful resources for your classroom
• How to use “purpose, steps, outcomes,” orbital studies, parallel curriculum, interest groups, and a variety of other strategies to more effectively teach and motivate gifted students in your classroom
• Immediate uses of technology instruction outside of the classroom as a motivating tool for your gifted population
• How to use “anchor activities” and on-going activities to provide independent learning opportunities throughout each course you teach