Meeting the Needs of Your GIFTED STUDENTS and Advanced Learners: High Yield Strategies (Grades 1-8) Presented by Michelle Swain Master Teacher Trainer, National Presenter and Award-Winning Educator of Gifted Students

Designed for Educators Serving Grades 1-8: Gifted Education Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Instructional Coaches, and Administrators

• Dozens of highly practical strategies and techniques to help your gifted students and advanced learners attain the highest levels of achievement
• The current, best strategies for meeting the needs of your gifted and advanced learners
• A wealth of innovative ideas that you can immediately implement in your own program
• Demonstrations, models and an extensive digital resource handbook filled with ready-to-use ideas, strategies and resources

Practical Ideas and Strategies

If you are looking for ways to strengthen instruction for your gifted students and advanced learners, this outstanding seminar is designed for you. Michelle Swain will provide you with dozens of strategies and techniques to help your gifted and advanced learners reach the high standards you have set for them. The emphasis will be on improving your students' critical thinking and problem-solving skills across the curriculum.

Michelle will share the current best strategies for gifted students and advanced learners. She will provide you with highly practical ideas, activities and methods proven effective with gifted students. These innovative ideas are ready for immediate use in your own classroom or program. All educators serving Grades 1-8, whether in general education classrooms or in specialized programs, will benefit from this seminar.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Enhance the Achievement of Your Gifted Students
   A wealth of practical strategies to extend and enrich your existing instructional programming to help your gifted and high ability students excel
2. More Effectively Meet the Needs of Your Gifted Students in the Mixed-Ability Classroom
   Learn a variety of practical strategies for effectively providing realistic differentiation practices flexible for the range of learners in your classroom
3. Current Research on Motivation and Mindset
   Explore the impact of student perspective on how they approach learning and school work … What teachers can do to support the growth of gifted and advanced learners
4. Differentiate Your Existing Curriculum – Practical "How To" Strategies
   Learn a variety of practical strategies for revising classroom materials and instruction to help your gifted and high ability students achieve a greater depth of content and complexity of understanding
5. Increase Your Students' Ability to Think Critically and Creatively
   Help your students question, explore alternatives, analyze problems and evaluate solutions … Specific strategies, proven successful in gifted programs
6. Employing and Managing Flexible Grouping Options
   Proven methods for assessing students, grouping appropriately, keeping track of key information, and making sure that your students' needs are being met
7. More Effectively Develop and Manage Alternative Activities and Individualized Opportunities
   Learn proven ways to accommodate a variety of skills, abilities and talents in the same classroom
8. Strengthen Your Students' Problem-Solving Skills
   Successful strategies for helping your gifted students and advanced learners to develop and strengthen their problem-solving skills
9. Approaches for Increasing Your Students' Creativity
   Challenging games, activities, projects, and new ideas to engage your gifted students
10. Receive a Comprehensive Digital Resource Handbook
    You'll receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar with outstanding resources you can implement in your own program for gifted students and advanced learners

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• Highly practical strategies for improving the academic achievement of your gifted and advanced learners
• Questioning techniques that stimulate higher-level thinking
• Dozens of strategies to meet the needs of the gifted and advanced learners within the general classroom
• Exciting tips and tools to infuse the key components of creativity into the content areas
• Ideas that enhance transfer of knowledge and retention of material
• Highly effective critical thinking and problem-solving strategies that will challenge your gifted students
• Engaging strategies that challenge gifted students in all areas of the curriculum
• Hands-on activities that encourage quality performance in your gifted students
• Strategies and management techniques for compacting and differentiating the curriculum to meet the needs of your students
• Lesson plans and units designed to strengthen critical thinking, problem solving and decision making
• Cooperative learning strategies that broaden leadership ability and group process
• Flexible, easy-to-implement grouping practices to more effectively meet the needs of your students
• Realistic strategies for incorporating technology into your existing program
• Effective strategies for organization and management of gifted and advanced learners with differing learning abilities
• Timesaving, organizational strategies that will help you make the most of every minute in class
• Highly effective strategies for building leadership, communication, collaboration and group process skills
• Proven methods for developing the full potential of your gifted and advanced learners
• Self-management techniques geared to help students take charge of their own learning
• The best, current research on motivation and mindset, and the role it plays in your classroom
• The most current, best strategies for gifted learning

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As educators who work with gifted and advanced learners, we are constantly seeking meaningful ways to engage and stimulate our students in ways that help them develop their potential as learners and leaders. We cannot be content with just teaching facts within subject areas. We must find ways to challenge our gifted and highly capable students to struggle with important issues and grapple with difficult problems in an accepting and intellectually stimulating environment. We must set high standards for gifted learners and then provide them with the support they need to reach those standards.

One of my goals as an educator is to encourage students to become lifelong learners who question what they encounter and seek out truth and knowledge. With this in mind, the activities in this seminar are structured to promote independent thinking, decision making, teamwork, and a strong sense of self-worth. There are many ways to support these students; we must constantly search for and employ the best ideas and add them to our toolbox. During this seminar, I will present a wide variety of practical strategies, methods, and tools to use with your gifted students and advanced learners.

Please join me for an energizing day full of ideas that can be used in your classroom immediately. I look forward to meeting you in the seminar and sharing with you the best strategies and techniques I have discovered.

Sincerely,
Michelle Swain

P.S. Join me for a great day of practical, easily implemented strategies and leave with an extensive digital resource handbook containing dozens of free resources designed specifically for this seminar!

Who Should Attend

Educators Serving Grades 1-8: Gifted Education Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Instructional Coaches, 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
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

• Current, innovative strategies for developing a student-centered culture where advanced learners experience increased motivation and engagement
• Powerful differentiation strategies with step-by-step directions you can successfully use across the curriculum with your gifted students
• Outstanding, FREE digital resources including lesson planning templates and graphic organizers that can immediately be used with your students
• Bibliography of websites, books, and resources to enhance your instruction
• And much, much more!

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 enhancing their gifted students and advanced learners program.

Consultation Available
Michelle Swain will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own 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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