Gifted and Advanced Learners: Better Differentiation and Less Prep Time (Grades 1-8) NEW Seminar Presented By Valerie Jasinski Outstanding Educator and National Presenter

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

• Move beyond "more work" to purposeful differentiation that better meets the needs of gifted students
• Timesaving strategies and tools for managing a differentiated classroom while decreasing your prep time
• Ready-to-use ideas to increase rigor and deepen thinking for your advanced students
• Receive an extensive digital resource handbook packed full of ideas, strategies, lessons, and useful resources you can use immediately to help your gifted and advanced learners thrive

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Join experienced educator Valerie Jasinski for a highly interactive seminar designed to help you meet the needs of your gifted and advanced learners. This one-day seminar focuses on the latest evidence-based strategies that integrate seamlessly into any subject or curriculum to help your gifted and advanced learners thrive.

Rather than "adding one more thing" to your plate, learn how to enhance differentiation through small, intentional shifts that increase rigor and provide targeted support while saving you time. Discover how to tap into student readiness, interests, and learning preferences to meet them right where they are. Gain insightful ways to plan a differentiated classroom while decreasing your overall prep time.

Whether you are brand new to differentiation or a seasoned veteran, you will leave with dozens of "use-tomorrow" ideas. Throughout the day, Valerie will model these strategies in action, ensuring you walk away with the confidence to fine-tune your lessons and help every student master more challenging content.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Practical Differentiated Instruction Strategies to Meet the Needs of Your Gifted and Advanced Learners
   Learn classroom proven, timesaving techniques for using differentiated instruction to more effectively meet the needs of gifted and advanced students while decreasing your preparation time
2. Differentiate Using Your Existing Curriculum to Elevate Learning for All Students
   Discover how to differentiate your board adopted curriculum, no separate lesson plans required … Meet the needs of your advanced learners while elevating the learning experience for all your students!
3. The Latest Tools to Differentiate Learning Without Adding to Your Workload
   Make the most of free, easy-to-use tools that promote deeper thinking, creativity and independence in advanced learners while saving you time and energy
4. Provide the Right Level of Challenge for Advanced Learners
   Move beyond more work to meaningful challenge … Learn how to adjust content, process and product so gifted students consistently engage in rigorous high-level learning
5. Use Feedback to Deepen Advanced Thinking Even Further
   Align learning goals with targeted feedback that stretches advanced learners thinking … Provide specific timely and actionable feedback that encourages reflection, growth, and self-direction
6. High-Impact Strategies for Improved Motivation
   Get better student engagement with high impact strategies for creating meaningful connections, reasoning, and more rigorous discussions across content areas
7. Support Higher Level Thinking and Improved Achievement
   Create a culture where advanced learners thrive … Learn practical classroom routines structures and expectations that boost challenge promote motivation and perseverance
8. Use Pre-Assessment to Streamline Differentiation for Advanced Learners
   Learn practical efficient ways to pre assess so you can quickly identify what advanced students already know … Eliminate unnecessary repetition and ensure students move directly into appropriately challenging work
9. Create Meaningful Choice That Increases Engagement and Ownership
   Design purposeful choice options that promote autonomy, creativity, and higher-level thinking … Empower advanced learners to take greater ownership of their learning while staying aligned to your goals
10. Receive an Extensive Digital Resource Handbook for Teaching Gifted and Advanced Learners
    Leave with a comprehensive digital resource handbook filled with ready to use strategies, tools and ideas specifically designed to better support gifted and advanced students

Specific Topics

Here's what you'll learn:

• Best, current ideas for differentiating your instruction to meet the diverse learning needs of gifted and advanced students
• Proven time saving differentiation techniques which increase student success while decreasing teacher prep time
• Examples of classroom-proven strategies to help you implement, organize, and manage differentiated instruction
• Powerful differentiation strategies designed to increase academic success for advanced and gifted learners
• Techniques for infusing creative thinking into everyday lessons
• The key characteristics of an effective differentiated instruction framework
• How to make best use of differentiated instruction methods to increase student engagement and motivation
• Timesaving, teacher-friendly differentiation tips that work across varied student background, preference, and motivation
• Fun, doable ways to create a low-stress, confidence-building yet challenging learning environment for your gifted and advanced students
• Dynamic, research-based practices that engage learners while fostering individual student growth
• Ideas, Ideas, Ideas – perfect for grades K-6 – that work for differentiating instruction in small group, centers, and whole class environments

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As educators, we know that our gifted and advanced learners can end up waiting for others to finish, repeating what they already know, or disengaging with learning completely. Too often, this is met with additional work for both the students AND the teacher! Using key differentiation strategies, learning can be designed to extend thinking from the start, so there's no need to create extra work later for students who are already finished. Instead, from the beginning of your lessons, every student at every level can be actively engaged, appropriately challenged, and moving forward in their learning progression.

In this interactive, one day seminar, I will show you how to more easily identify what students already know to eliminate unnecessary repetition, increase rigor through tasks that meet students where they are, infuse creativity, and best of all, how to use practical strategies that fit all of the above into your existing lessons without increasing your workload! In our day together, learn how easily (and powerfully) you can enhance your lessons and activities to help each of your advanced and gifted students find appropriate levels of challenge regardless of background, preference, or motivation.

As an experienced educator specializing in instruction for gifted and advanced students, I have learned, refined and implemented dozens of research-based strategies and techniques for differentiating instruction. My goal for this day is to demonstrate the best of the best of these exemplary differentiated instruction strategies, activities, and ideas with you. Plus, you will leave with a digital resource handbook! I hope you will join me to discover new ways to meet your gifted students' learning needs in the classroom!

Sincerely,
Valerie Jasinski

P.S. You will leave with dozens of ready-to-use practical ideas and strategies you can implement immediately to better differentiate for you gifted and advanced learners with less prep time and without assigning extra work!

Who Should Attend

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

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

• Practical, relevant strategies for using differentiated instruction so your gifted and advanced students can thrive
• Ready-to-use differentiated instruction strategies you can implement in your classroom right away
• Best tools to help you meet the needs of your gifted learners while reducing your prep time
• Tips and ideas to foster a higher functioning differentiated classroom, while saving yourself valuable time

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in differentiation for gifted and advanced learners.

Consultation Available
Valerie Jasinski will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option:
Graduate level professional development credit is available with an additional fee and completion of follow up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate of the University of Massachusetts, will be available at the seminar.

Meet Inservice Requirements:
At the end of the program, each attendee will receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify hours of participation in meeting continuing education requirements.

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