Using AI Tools to Increase the Success of GIFTED LEARNERS (Grades 1-8) Presented by Cari Orts Outstanding Gifted and Talented Educator and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Educators Serving Grades 1 8: Gifted Education Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Resource Teachers, Reading Specialists, Librarians, Instructional Aides, Counselors, and Administrators

• How to make best use of AI technologies to enhance the engagement and learning of your Gifted and Talented (GT) students
• Hands-on experience with AI tools, powerful strategies, and protocols perfect for GT educators and students
• Pitfalls to avoid and solutions to ethical concerns with the use of AI-powered tools and resources in the GT classroom
• Highly practical ways you can increase your teacher productivity using AI

Practical Ideas and Strategies

This NEW seminar presented by Cari Orts is an exciting opportunity for grades 1-8 Gifted and Talented educators to explore the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence and its specific applications in gifted education. Swiftly adjust reading levels to challenge and promote vocabulary development, while crafting personalized math word problems that align with student interests. Utilize AI to easily adapt your existing curriculum, generate tailored assessments, and enhance students' research skills.

Quickly convert articles into dynamic Google resources and transform YouTube videos into engaging assessments, all with the power of AI. Elevate student presentations with Canva's AI tools, diversify written content into various media formats to enhance students' communication skills, and more! Embrace the timesaving and incredible possibilities that AI unlocks – specifically for educators of Gifted and Talented learners.

Join Cari for a highly practical day filled with ways to make best use of AI tools to strengthen your gifted students' learning, streamline assessments, enhance your instruction, and improve your own productivity.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Make Best Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools With Gifted and Talented (GT) Learners
   Discover essential and practical ways to harness AI tools with your grades 1-8 gifted learners … Explore the best, most useful AI tools for increasing your gifted students' engagement and learning while increasing your own productivity
2. Adapt Existing Curriculum to Better Meet the Unique Needs of Gifted Learners
   Discover how to utilize AI-generated assessments and rubrics, Google Form quizzes, ways to generate Project-Based Learning and choice boards, and more to better meet students' unique needs
3. Convert Existing Written Content Into Various Media Formats
   Teach students to use AI to convert written work, including their own, into various media types … Enable gifted learners to enhance their communication skills across diverse formats, leveraging their advanced writing abilities and intellectual curiosity
4. Promote Higher-Level Thinking Skills in Your Gifted Learners
   See how you can select a topic from your curriculum and let AI work its magic … Effortlessly generate multi-level questions to stimulate critical thinking in students
5. Cooperative Lessons and Stations: Let AI Do All the Heavy Lifting
   Learn how to effortlessly craft choice boards for stations or free time using AI tools … Cater to the needs of all your gifted students who thrive on choice
6. Generate Assessments With Ease to Monitor Student Comprehension
   Discover great ways to leverage AI-powered tools in your pre-assessment and assessment practices to significantly enhance the learning experience for gifted students
7. Encourage Richer Research Skill Development and Text Analysis
   Learn how to use AI tools to easily turn a compelling article into a versatile set of Google resources, providing an engaging and rich learning experience for your students
8. Elevate Student Presentation Skills With Canva's AI-Powered Tools
   Explore how students can effortlessly use Canva's AI capabilities to create visually stunning presentations to effectively convey their ideas and captivate their audience
9. Increase Your Own Productivity
   Use AI tools to improve your efficiency with administrative tasks and lesson planning … Regain valuable time to focus on teaching and your GT students' learning
10. Extensive AI in the GT Classroom Digital Resource Handbook and Special Online Access
    You'll receive an extensive digital resource handbook packed with practical ideas, strategies, and tools specifically designed to help you increase your gifted students' learning and enhance your own productivity … Receive special online access to Cari's Google Drive full of additional AI resources

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• The best, most useful AI tools to enhance your instruction and productivity, and increase your gifted students' learning
• How to morph student writing into a multitude of different AI-generated products
• Create math word problems that spark each of your students' interest
• Strategies to make best use of AI tools in Canva to strengthen students' presentation skills and creativity
• AI feedback tools that quickly create custom progress report feedback for parents
• AI-assisted alternative assignments perfect for gifted learners that align with the classroom curriculum
• How to build a competitive but fun learning environment using game-based learning created using AI
• Favorite student YouTube videos: how to use AI to transform them into captivating educational lessons tailored to student interests
• Ways to assess student acceleration levels efficiently and accurately using AI
• How to strengthen student research skills by utilizing AI-generated assignments
• Tools that turn AI into an administrative assistant to streamline your assessment, communication, instruction, and overall work

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As educators specializing in Gifted and Talented (GT) instruction, our aim is to foster a dynamic learning community that prioritizes differentiation and caters to our students' unique interests. Fortunately, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is packed with promise to help us address all these aims and more!

As a current GT teacher, I am excited to share the best of what I have learned about maximizing the potential of AI with gifted students. I have been using AI extensively, and daily in my teaching practice, and have discovered its immense potential in enhancing the learning for gifted learners.

Discover essential AI tools for grades 1-8 gifted learners to enhance engagement and productivity. Learn how to utilize AI to better meet your students' unique needs, swiftly adjust reading levels, tailor math instruction, easily create assessments, adapt your existing curriculum, strengthen students' research and presentation skills, turn favorite YouTube videos into powerful learning opportunities, and much more!

Join me for a rewarding day packed with practical, timesaving strategies that you can immediately incorporate into your teaching practice. You'll leave equipped with a diverse range of great AI tools to enhance your Gifted and Talented teaching toolkit.

Sincerely,
Cari Orts

P.S. I can't wait to show you timesaving AI tools to enhance your GT classroom! You'll leave feeling energized and excited with many new ways to strengthen your gifted students' learning, while enhancing your own productivity using AI.

Who Should Attend

Serving Grades 1 8: Gifted Education Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Resource Teachers, Reading Specialists, Librarians, Instructional Aides, Counselors, and Administrators

About BER Live Online Events

With the current health challenges, all BER in-person PD events are currently being presented in a Live Online format:

• Outstanding Instructors
  All programs are led by outstanding BER national trainers
• Extensive Resource Handbooks
  You'll have access to an extensive digital Resource Handbook before, during and after your seminar
• Highly Interactive
  You'll be able to ask questions in real time and interact with the instructor and other participants
• Program Guarantee
  As we have for 48 years, we guarantee the high quality of our programs. If you are not satisfied, we'll give you a 100% refund.

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

• Sample prompts and strategies for using AI tools to create engaging and personalized Gifted and Talented (GT) instruction lessons that cater to individual student learning needs
• Ways to use AI to easily adapt reading levels to appropriately challenge grades 1-8 gifted learners
• How to build appropriately leveled and individualized assignments and assessments with AI for gifted students
• Step-by-step instructions to get AI to quickly convert high-interest YouTube videos into powerful learning opportunities for gifted students
• Tips and tricks to help students make best use of Canva's AI tools in their presentations
• AI tools to help you automate routine administrative tasks, saving you valuable time

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in making best use of AI tools with their GT students.

Consultation Available
Cari Orts will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own Gifted and Talented program.

Semester Credit Option
Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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