DATE: November 8, 2023
TIME: 9:00am – 11:30am Session #1: What does 'Gifted and Advanced' Look Like? Finding Talent!
1:00pm - 3:00pm Session #2: Differentiated Instruction for Advanced Learners
TYPE: In-Person
LOCATION: WRESA
200 Ridgefield Ct, Suite 206
Asheville, NC 28806
FEE: $45 WRESA Members
$70 Non-members
CEUs: 5 Contact Hours
LIMIT: 30 Participants
Audience: K-8 Classroom Teachers and AIG Specialists
Morning Session: 9:00am – 11:30am What does ‘Gifted and Advanced’ Look Like? Finding Talent!
This session will help participants identify common characteristics of gifted youth and
address the topics below:
High Achievers vs. Gifted Learners
What’s the difference and does it matter?
Using local norms for gifted identification
Advanced Learners are Diverse Learners
Why are black students not identified as gifted?
What does gifted look like in other cultures?
When English is not their first language
What is twice exceptional?
Serving Gifted in Rural Settings
Families and Belief Systems
Resources:
Special Populations in Gifted Education, Castellano & Frazier
Empowering Underrepresented Gifted Students, Joy Lawson Davis
A Call to Action; Equity and Excellence, NCDPI
Afternoon Session: 1:00pm – 3:00pm Differentiated Instruction for Advanced Learners
Participants will look at differentiation in the regular classroom. Stepahanie Knox will
provide guidance, strategies, and the research behind the topics listed below
Differentiation in the Regular Classroom
- Content, Process, Product
- Rigor
- Instructional Delivery
- Strategies (tiered assignments, anchor activities, etc)
- Finding time (all day, every day)
- PLCs (planning for differentiation, pathways (Heacox))
Resources:
- Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom, Heacox
- Differentiation for Gifted Learners; Going Beyond the Basics, Heacox/Cas
- Differentiating Instruction with Menus (Series), Westphal
- Byrdseed Platform, Ian Byrd
Presenter: Stephanie Knox, Ma.Ed., NBCT, is the AIG/Advanced Learning Lead Specialist for Buncombe County Schools. She has been working in gifted programming for 15 years and has been in education for 30 years. She has presented on a variety of topics but her favorite is gifted programming.
If you have additional questions, contact Candie Sellers at csellers@wresa.org