An exciting in-service offering for educators who wish to help gifted students to become:

• Avid readers
• Critical and creative thinkers
• Interested learners
• Organized investigators
• Effective communicators
• Responsible information users

The workshop includes:

• Books to promote higher level thinking
• Readers theatre as springboards to science units
• Thematic studies for real world problem solving
• Differentiating skills teaching for gifted students
• Micro-themes
• Unique research products with no more copying
• Critical reading and critical thinking skills
• Multi-cultural and global studies
• Literature and the social studies and much more! .

The workshop will introduce the best new books especially chosen for students in gifted programs!

Featuring a differentiated curriculum for gifted students

• Content related to themes, issues or problems.
• Integrating multiple disciplines
• Developing independent and self-directed study skills
• Focusing on open-ended tasks
• Integrating basic skills and higher level thinking skills
• Encouraging risk taking
• Allowing for choice ( self-selected experiences)
• Encouraging development of products that use new techniques, materials and forms.
• Developing research skills and methods.
• Self evaluation of products