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Breakout Session 6: 2:30 - 3:45 PM
Exploring Shapes and Beyond
In this session, participants will explore geometric concepts and how students engage in geometric thinking. By engaging in hands-on activities and discussion participants will be able to promote students in-depth understanding of the attributes, visualization, and transformations of geometric shapes.
Shelbi Cole, Secondary Mathematics Consultant, CT State Department of Education, Hartford, CT
Co-Presenter: Janine Firmender, Research Assistant/UConn, Storrs, CT
Connecting the Whole Mind
This lively presentation will shed new perspectives on the use of Multiple Intelligences as a means to prepare the whole mind for conceptual thinking, creativity, optimal expression and performance. We will address the effective and ineffective uses the intelligences, and offer hands-on intervention strategies that can be used at home, in the classroom, or to strengthen school culture.
Rhonda M. Lehman Davenport, M.Ed., C.A.S., Co-owners of RootSource Solutions, LLC and My Learning Well, Newtown, CT
Co-Presenter: Herman L. Davenport, Co-Owner, Senior Consultant, Newtown, CT
Gifted African-Americans Identities
Learn how gifted African-American children's diverse identities inform their sense of selves and worldviews. Discover why culturally competent and relevant curricula and teachers can enhance and advance black children's sense of selves; how positive identities can empower their academic success; and why cultural competency is the underpinning of academic social justice.
Nedra Sims Fears, Publisher, Author and Parent, Bloomington, MN
Differentiation for Gifted Learners: A Creative and Proactive Approach!
The Mobius Response Model provides an innovative conceptual framework for encouraging high-level development-the seamless connectivity of four points: planning, assessment, programming, and learning environment. The Mobius strip becomes a springboard for thinking seriously about differentiation and gifted education.
Joanne Foster, Ed.D., Gifted Education Specialist, University of Toronto, Canada
Social and Emotional Benefits of Homeschooling Gifted Children
Gifted children need an educational environment that is tailored to their learning style. They learn differently, and their increased sensitivities can leave them vulnerable. Greater flexibility allows each child’s individual needs to be met, resulting in social and emotional benefits. Corin's Handouts
Corin Barsily Goodwin, Executive Director of Gifted Homeschoolers Forum, San Jose, CA
Co-Presenter: Lorel Shea, BellaOnline Gifted Ed, Putnam, CT
Beyond Smart: 21st Century Skills for Gifted Minds
Discover how Shared Inquiry™ develops 21st century skills of collaboration, communication and critical thinking through discussion of challenging literature. Interactive modeling and reflection on these questioning strategies will highlight the social, emotional and intellectual benefits for gifted students.
Kriko Michaels, National Training Instructor and School Change Specialist for The Great Books Foundation, Chicago, IL
Homeschooling Around the World
How can you bring the world to your child? Explore the world through picture books. Adopt world history as the central theme of your curriculum for older students. Discover the world, past and present, through the internet.
Handouts:
Homeschooling Around the World Bibliography
Homeschooling Around the World Outline
Homeschooling Around the World Sources
Michele Middleton, Graduate Student, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
Backwards Planning- The Cure for Procrastination
Students are often labeled “lazy” because they suffer from time- management dysfunction. This session offers time-tested strategies that get students “real” about time and personalizes the process, so students are empowered to manage projects easily.
Victoria Olivadoti, Educator, Author, and Consultant, Hunting Beach, CA
The Science of Magic / The Magic of Science
All of us - parents, teachers and facilitators - want to raise bright, heads-up students. Children are naturally inquisitive, brave, intuitive and skeptical. Much of what makes up science can appear magical, and much of what we call magic is just clever science and technology. Learn how these two can foster critical thinking and a sense of wonder in your classroom.
John Pellino, Associate Director, Talcott Mountain Science Center, Avon, CT
A New Twist on Twice Exceptional
Why do so many gifted children have learning disabilities? Why aren’t gifted children more responsive to remediation and compensation strategies? This case report addresses these perplexing problems. Ms Sann discusses the underlying psychological dynamics of gifted learning disabilities, proposes a theory of why these children remain stuck and suggests what to do about it. Madelon's Handout
Madelon Sann, LCSW, NYC, NY
More Means Wider: The Tension Between Excellence and Equality
This paper will argue that additional general funds can only widen the gap between the able and the less able. The paper will produce evidence from education, mathematics, physics and psychology that, while blanket increases in funding or other resources may increase the performance of everyone, the more able gain more than the less able thus widening the gap between them. To maintain the gap or reduce it, will take massive negative discrimination against the able and equally massive positive discrimination in favour of the less able. That pits two political ideologies against the other, that of the right of all children to receive the education which optimizes their abilities and that of equality which while it has many definitions boils down in education, to seeing equality of outcomes. You can have either, but not both.
K. Brian Start Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, AU
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