In this workshop series, participants will acquire mindsets enabling them to create integrated thematic units, develop skills promoting the 4Cs through engaging strategies, produce projects, and design simulations that actively involve student participation and higher level thinking. Learn strategies to differentiate the curriculum to meet the academic and social emotional needs of gifted students.
Workshops will benefit all K-12 educators, gifted specialists, teachers of the arts and other disciplines.
Each workshop requires separate registration.
This registration is for December 7, 2020.
Dec. 7, 2020 – Let’s Get Connected! Creating Thematic and Interdisciplinary Units Courage, Changes, Relationships and Heroism are examples of the integrative thematic units that will be shared for lessons and unit evaluations, along with hands-on activities and projects, to provide students with an understanding of relationships between the disciplines and real world connections. Exploring real world issues will support critical thinking, advanced problem solving, and service learning. Interdisciplinary unit planning also will be explored as an alternate strategy to connect disciplines through common themes.
The following is information only - to register please see the calendar of events.
Feb. 3, 2021– Re-Imagining Your Teaching through Differentiation
This workshop includes strategies, resources and practices to help advance the 4Cs into classroom practices providing students with skills needed for their futures. Learn practical techniques to integrate the 4Cs into teaching and learning, tools for developing enhanced proficiency with technology, and methods to ensure that students are learning in a meaningful context. Techniques will include choice boards, independent study, conversation buddies, open mic, interactive technologies, and others.
Mar. 2, 2021 – The Art of Teaching
Instructional scenarios and simulations are powerful instructional tools to teach content, thinking, and reasoning skills. These teaching strategies promote student-centered and constructivist learning aligned to content standards and learning tasks. Arts Integrated projects in a variety of disciplines promote creativity, literacy, numeracy and invoke multiple perspectives and modes of understanding. Participants will create a simulation to align with a content standard or topic in their discipline.