From Amazon: "In a world that is ever changing, our job is not to prepare students for something; instead, our role is to help students prepare themselves for anything. In Empower, A.J. Juliani and John Spencer provide teachers, coaches, and administrators with a roadmap that will inspire innovation, authentic learning experiences, and practical ways to empower students to pursue their passions while in school."
We will be thinking about how to move gifted (and ALL) learners from compliance to EMPOWERMENT. Participants will post to discussion threads, explore resources, reply to each other, share ideas, and complete readings assignments. There will be an option to participate in a one-hour Zoom meeting on the last day.
Participants are responsible for the purchase of the book.
This book study counts for 15 gifted HQPD contact hours.
Gifted competencies addressed:
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 curriculum 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 select, use and interpret technically sound formal and informal assessments for the purpose of academic decision-making
Free for participants from Full Gifted Coordination Districts (Provide School District in the PO# Space)
This book study runs from September 13 – October 18, 2021