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Engage and Empower Gifted Learners Through Blended Learning

- Audience:  Teachers, Gifted Intervention Specialists, Gifted Coordinators, Instructional Coaches and Administrators




  • Learn various blended learning models and how to leverage technology to stretch gifted learners' thinking.
  • Increase gifted student engagement and empowerment through blended learning instructional strategies.
  • Redefine and transform learning through technology.
  • Address gifted students' social and emotional needs through blended learning.

Important Session Information:


Join this hybrid class as we explore the pedagogy behind blended learning, its various models and strategies, and how it can engage and empower gifted learners.

We will explore resources from blended learning and innovative education experts such as Catlin Tucker, George Couros, Katie Martin, Eric Sheninger, and John Spencer, as well as share ideas in asynchronous and synchronous discussions. We will also use excerpts and discussion questions from Catlin Tucker’s book, Balance with Blended Learning: Partner With Your Students to Reimagine Learning and Reclaim Your Life. In addition to interaction through Google Classroom, we will meet three times over Zoom:

January 11, 7-8 PM

February 8, 7-8 PM

March 15, 7-8 PM

Participants are responsible for the purchase of the book.

Team of Four Discount $55 per person.

This online course will count for 15 gifted HQPD contact hours and will address the following competencies:

(a) The ability to differentiate instruction based on a student's readiness, knowledge and skill level, including using accelerated content, complexity, depth, challenge, creativity and abstractness.

(b) The ability to select, adapt, or create a variety of differentiated curricula that incorporate advanced, conceptually challenging, in-depth, distinctive and complex content.

(c) The ability to provide an extension or replacement of the general education curricula, to modify the learning process through strategies such as curriculum compacting, and to select alternative assignments and projects based on individual student needs.

(d) The ability to understand the social and emotional needs of students.

Registration is free for participants from Full Gifted Coordination Districts.

Enter your district name in the PO number box.

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Session ID:
41086
Credits Available:
(15) Contact Hours
Seats Available:
32
Fee:
$65.00
Contact Person:
Holly Mueller
Instructor(s):
Holly Mueller
Date Location
(Monday, January 11, 2021 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM) Hamilton County ESC, Online Location


11083 Hamilton Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45231

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