H-7 (K-8 Teachers & Paras)
CHALLENGING GIFTED STUDENTS IN THE REGULAR CLASSROOM (A SURVIVOR'S GUIDE)
Jackie Drummer, South Milwaukee
drummer.jackie@sdsm.k12.wi.us  

Gifted students spend the majority of their learning time in the regular classroom.  Though they are often a joy to work with, they provide additional challenges in planning content, process, and products, since they may already know 50-80% of your curriculum before they enter your classroom.  This workshop will help you understand identification methods and programming options and provide you with many strategies to meet the needs of these children in your regular classroom.  It will also help expand your complete teacher toolkit and is based on Best Practice.  Come prepared to laugh, to create, to think and to share.

Objectives:

	Understand characteristics of gifted children
	Understand various programming options based on research, state law, Best Practices, and the Pyramid Model
	Understand "twice exceptional" students and their needs
	Explore, practice, and refine the seven basic strategies of differentiation - compacting, flexible grouping, tiered assignments, learning centers, independent contracts and questioning
	Explore and use some of the best materials that can b bought and created to extend student learning in all content areas

This workshop will be guided by the Gifted Program Standards, a collaboration of the National Council for Accreditation in Teacher Education (NCATE), the council for Exceptional Children (CEC), and the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC).