Professional Development Workshops
GiftED Teacher Talk is a place for teachers to gather to share strategies, ideas, concerns, and practical experience in our remote teaching environments. It is a place to connect. This session will offer a more informal space to support one another as we serve our students in new ways.
GiftED Teacher Talk will be facilitated by Marianne Landrith, Program Director of GiftED, and is designed for discussion and sharing both in whole group and small group format. Several strategies that support gifted students will be shared, followed by open whole group discussions and grade band specific small group discussions in breakout rooms. This session is appropriate for teachers of any gifted program model, and for those in the regular classroom with any number of gifted students in the class. Sessions will be conducted on Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed the day of the session.
Session date is Tuesday, October 27 from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Registration is required.
There is no cost for this session.
A major philosophical tenet of programs and services for gifted learners relates to the creation of an “appropriate challenge” for these students within the general curriculum. Creating a challenge for gifted learners might be easy to define in concept and harder to execute pragmatically. This series will present The Depth and Complexity Model as a tangible and concrete strategy for modifying, adapting, and/or tailoring the curriculum to meet the needs, interests, and abilities of gifted learners. Participants will be introduced to a set of prompts that serve as key words for digging into content in many and varied ways. The prompts of depth and complexity will be integrated into teacher’s core content as well as current events to create extensions and enrichment experiences for gifted learners. The series will also discuss how the prompts can be used as a means of creating opportunities for ALL learners to engage and develop the dispositions of a scholar.
Participants are encouraged to bring their curriculum to the series and will leave with a set of “challenge” tasks to extend the learning for gifted students. We will also discuss how the prompts of depth and complexity can be integrated into other curriculum elements such as Big Ideas, Universal Concepts, and Thinking Like a Disciplinarian.
Dates:
Audience: Certified Teachers, Instructional Coaches and Administrators
Cost: $60
Location: Remote Learning through the Pima County School Superintendent’s Office; 200 N. Stone Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85701
Facilitator:
Jessica Manzone has worked at USC in various capacities for the last 13 years. Jessica is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Masters of the Art in Teaching Program at the Rossier School of Education. Jessica currently works as a Research Assistant on two U.S. Department of Education grants with Dr. Sandra Kaplan in the field of curriculum development and gifted education. Jessica has been a primary teacher and instructional coach in Baltimore City, Maryland and currently works with districts across the country on creating integrated units of study.
This course will review introductory concepts of gifted education including national gifted standards, Arizona Department of Education requirements, identification measures, and program and service models. Participants will gain a greater understanding of the field of gifted education, terminology and best practices for instruction. This course is suitable for teachers who work with gifted students and/or advanced learners, and other educators such as counselors, administrators and school leaders.
This course will include 15 hours of synchronous instruction plus 15 hours of asynchronous participation.
This courses can be taken in conjunction with Social and Emotional Support for Gifted Learners and Curriculum and Instruction for Gifted Learners to provide the required 90 hours for the provisional gifted endorsement.
Audience: Certified Teachers, Instructional Coaches and Administrators , counselors
Cost: $120
Facilitators:
Marianne Landrith is the Program Director of Frameworks & Foundations and GiftED for the Pima County School Superintendent's Office. Marianne has taught for 35 years in regular and gifted education. She has coordinated a Jacob K. Javits Grant in Pima County, worked as a Teacher Trainer Mentor, Peer Coach Trainer, Program Facilitator and Career Ladder Peer Evaluator. Marianne also coordinates the Southern Arizona Gifted Network, She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Arizona Association of Gifted and Talented (AAGT).
Suicide Prevention/Trauma Informed Care
Date: Wednesday, November 18th
Time: 12:00 to 1:00 pm
Cost: Free
Audience: Superintendents, Principals, K-12 Teachers, Counselors, School Nurses, Teachers Aids, PTO Members, Parents
Description: A conversation on the mental health of todays youth: how to recognize the signs of suicide and effective ways to help a child in crisis.
Presenters: Andy Maurer and Lisa Hansen
As a licensed associate marriage and family therapist in Arizona, Andy Maurer provides counseling services at The Phoenix Counseling Collective in Downtown Phoenix. As a therapist, he works primarily with couples, adults, and entrepreneurs who have experienced trauma or abuse. Andy creates trauma-informed spaces that promote healing, emotional awareness, and performance enhancement. He also works for Mending the Soul, researching and writing on the issue of abuse and trauma, as well as speaking on the issue of abuse and the rape culture. He earned both a Master of Divinity in Professional Counseling from Phoenix Seminary and a Masters in Marital Family Therapy from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Lisa Hansen believes there is a hidden pandemic destroying our youth. She is convinced that startling surge in suicide of youth and young adults is linked to the current child exploitation epidemic. She faced her own dilemma as she was stuck in anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts due to her childhood trauma of sexual abuse, sex trafficking and domestic abuse. She is the Education Director for Sold No More and primary author of the, Power Over Predators program, addressing sexual abuse, exploitation, child sex trafficking, Internet safety, sexting & sextortion, cyberbullying, pornography, suicide prevention and safe, supportive relationships. Power Over Predators is being used nationally to teach children how to protect themselves from abuse and give them hope for a free and healthy future.
This course will review the social and emotional characteristics of gifted students, differences between high achievers, gifted learners and creative thinkers and the full range of diverse learners who identify as gifted including culturally, linguistically and economically diverse students. We will review twice exceptional learners, 3e learners, overexcitabilities, asynchronous development, perfectionism, underachievement and depression. Instructional strategies for support to include trauma informed pedagogy, and self-regulation will be shared. This session is suitable for gifted education teachers, counselors and administrators who work with gifted students.
This courses can be taken in conjunction with Gifted Education 101 and Curriculum and Instruction for Gifted Learners to provide the required 90 hours for the provisional gifted endorsement.
Audience: Certified Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Administrators, and Counselors
Cost: $120 Registration fee includes book and materials .
In this course, participants will explore curriculum modifications for gifted learners, including differentiating by content, process and product as well as readiness, interest and learning preferences, flexible groupings, and subject and content acceleration. Instructional methods for gifted learners such as critical thinking, creative thinking, problem solving, project-based learning and high level questioning will be explored. Participants will leave class with specific strategies and modifications they can use in order to follow best practices in instruction for both synchronous and asynchronous environments.
This courses can be taken in conjunction with Gifted Education 101 and Social and Emotional Support for Gifted Learners to provide the required 90 hours for the provisional gifted endorsement.
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