Gifted education and higher order thinking
Gifted education and higher order thinking: Improving learning outcomes for every student is a comprehensive and innovative professional development program for all teachers in all classrooms. The program enhances teachers' understanding of:
- the concept of giftedness
- commonly observed cognitive and affective behaviours and characteristics associated with giftedness
- the use of inclusive identification methods to identify gifted students
- ways to develop appropriate learning experiences for gifted students
- ways to improve gifted students' critical, creative and caring thinking skills
- ways to develop higher order thinking in all students.
Tutor Training Program
- This program is an intensive five-day train-the-trainer professional development program for teachers and curriculum leaders in gifted education.
- Tutor Training is delivered in host schools around the world to small groups of between 10 and 20 teachers.
- Successful graduates become resident school-based Tutors who deliver the Teacher Development Course. This provides your school with cost effective, school-managed professional development.
There are now more than 2000 Unlocking the World licensed Tutors working in over 50 countries around the world. Using our programs, these Tutors have provided professional development to over 23,000 teachers.
Teacher Development Course
As a Gifted education and higher order thinking trained Tutor, you can deliver the Teacher Development Course in your own school.
The course incorporates group workshops, individual classroom-based action research and highly practical readings. It is designed to enhance classroom teachers' skills and knowledge to better support the learning needs of gifted students across the curriculum. It supports teachers in developing teaching and learning strategies and units of work that are inclusive of their gifted students while also being appropriate for all students in their classroom.
Trained Tutors deliver 27 hours of face-to-face learning in the nine modules which when combined with between module readings and research, is equivalent to more than 40 hours professional development for teachers.
Teacher Development Course Outline
Module 1: Concepts of giftedness and characteristics of gifted students
Module 2: Identifying gifted students
Module 3: Differentiation and the core curriculum
Module 4: Differentiation and Bloom’s Taxonomy
Module 5: Critical thinking
Module 6: Graphic organisers
Module 7: Creative thinking
Module 8: Multiple intelligences
Module 9: Caring as thinking
Accreditation
Seeking accreditation from tertiary institutions
Contact us
You can find out more about the Gifted education and higher order thinking: Improving learning outcomes for every student Tutor Training Program by contacting our Consultants:
Tutor Training Consultants
Wendy Stewart
Email: stewart.wendy@bigpond.com
DECS Publishing
Email: admin@unlockingtheworld.com
Phone: +61-8-8463 5933
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