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Using STEM to Engage Your GT Students- G/T 6 Hour Update (Online Self-Paced Course) Promote critical thinking and differentiated instruction to support a strong classroom culture celebrating discovery and creativity. Guide your students through experiences tailored to their interests in digital field trips and support their development of skills through makerspaces. Showcase their talents and build a platform for student presentation and publication while utilizing the latest apps to enhance your instruction to deliver content and connect with your student audience. Units covered in this course: Unit 1- Virtual field trips-Geocaching, Virtual Tours, Digiwalks, Unit 2- Makerspaces- online and in-person, Unit 3- Building a Culture of Creation, and Unit 4- Time is Tiktoking- Apps to get your teaching to go viral. Gifted and Talented 6-hour Update ASYNCHRONOUS Google Course This gifted and talented 6-hour update is a self-paced course offered through Google Classroom. Participants will go through the materials on their own time. The course includes videos that cover the content and digital activities that require participants to engage with the content. In order to get full credit for the annual 6-hour update required by the state of Texas according to the Texas State Plan for Gifted Education, all assignments need to be completed fully by the due date. ONLINE SELF-PACED Gifted & Talented Initial 30 Hour Training Participants will go through the asynchronous 30 hour training model required to provide services for Gifted & Talented students. There are 5 separate workshops for each day. Participants must register and pay for each day separately. G/T 6-hour Update - Attending to the Affect: Social and Emotional Learning of GT Students This workshop addresses the social and emotional needs of gifted students. Participants will learn about the characteristics of gifted students that influence their social and emotional needs, examine the characteristics and qualities of educational environments that impact social and emotional strengths and needs of gifted students, and investigate strategies that may be used to empower gifted learners to effectively deal with challenges attributed to their social and emotional characteristics.

Using STEM to Engage Your GT Students- G/T 6 Hour Update (Online Self-Paced Course)

Promote critical thinking and differentiated instruction to support a strong classroom culture celebrating discovery and creativity. Guide your students through experiences tailored to their interests in digital field trips and support their development of skills through makerspaces. Showcase their talents and build a platform for student presentation and publication while utilizing the latest apps to enhance your instruction to deliver content and connect with your student audience. Units covered in this course: Unit 1- Virtual field trips-Geocaching, Virtual Tours, Digiwalks, Unit 2- Makerspaces- online and in-person, Unit 3- Building a Culture of Creation, and Unit 4- Time is Tiktoking- Apps to get your teaching to go viral.
Gifted and Talented 6-hour Update ASYNCHRONOUS Google Course

This gifted and talented 6-hour update is a self-paced course offered through Google Classroom. Participants will go through the materials on their own time. The course includes videos that cover the content and digital activities that require participants to engage with the content. In order to get full credit for the annual 6-hour update required by the state of Texas according to the Texas State Plan for Gifted Education, all assignments need to be completed fully by the due date.
ONLINE SELF-PACED Gifted & Talented Initial 30 Hour Training

Participants will go through the asynchronous 30 hour training model required to provide services for Gifted & Talented students. There are 5 separate workshops for each day. Participants must register and pay for each day separately.
G/T 6-hour Update - Attending to the Affect: Social and Emotional Learning of GT Students

This workshop addresses the social and emotional needs of gifted students. Participants will learn about the characteristics of gifted students that influence their social and emotional needs, examine the characteristics and qualities of educational environments that impact social and emotional strengths and needs of gifted students, and investigate strategies that may be used to empower gifted learners to effectively deal with challenges attributed to their social and emotional characteristics.