Summer Gifted Institute Workshop
This program is designed for current K-12 teachers.
The Summer Gifted Institute is an annual event held each summer and led by Dr. Sandra Kaplan and a team of faculty members experienced in gifted education, instruction, and curriculum design. This institute provides teachers with newly designed differentiated curriculum units and instructional strategies responsive to identifying students of diversity and challenging advanced and gifted learners.
Curriculum Overview
The Summer Gifted Institute AND Demonstrations provide an opportunity to observe the implementation of the most current curriculum ideas and instructional strategies to differentiate curriculum to identify and accommodate academically, linguistically, and culturally diverse gifted students. This seminar is intended for novice to advanced Pre-K-12 teachers, coaches, and administrators.
The 37th Annual Summer Gifted Institute: Redefining and Refining Gifted Education - Differentiating Standards-based Curricula Across All Grade and Subject Areas
- Promoting opportunities to recognize potential in the diversity among all students
- Supporting a non-traditional form of identification
- Providing the spill-over of differentiation to all students
- Integrating cultural relevancy and social-emotional learning with differentiation
Differentiating the Conference Pattern
- General Session: general orientation of topical areas
- Specialized Sessions: array of various demonstrations and extensions
- Individualized Sessions: one-on-one consultations
Coursework Examples
- Seminars that present new content and theories
- Workshops that expose educators to advanced methods in differentiated curriculum
- Demonstration lessons that provide a first-hand look at differentiated curriculum and potential student responses
- Curriculum writing sessions that provide participants with a chance to write and receive feedback on lesson plans and units of study
Download the program flyer.
Register for the 37th Annual Summer Gifted Institute – Redefining and Refining Gifted Education
For 2022, the Summer Gifted Institute focuses on developing and implementing differentiated curriculum for advanced and gifted students in an online seminar.
We will explore differentiating standards-based curricula across all grade and subject areas, especially:
- Promoting opportunities to recognize potential in the diversity among all students
- Supporting a non-traditional form of identification
- Providing the spill-over of differentiation to all students
- Integrating cultural relevancy and social emotional learning with differentiation
The three-day webinars will be held June 20-22 & August 3-5.
Both sessions will cover the same content.
Three-day Summer Gifted Institute cost: $230.00
Register For Session 1 Online (June 20-22)
Register For Session 2 Online (August 3-5)
Individuals and groups may register online using a credit card for any of the 2022 Summer Gifted Institute events. If paying with a purchase order or check, please contact Cecilia Olmos (colmos@rossier.usc.edu) to process your registrations.
Participants who complete one of the sessions are eligible to purchase two (2) Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for $70. Terms and Conditions apply.
Substitutions may be made if the registrant cannot attend. Please notify Cecilia Olmos with the name of the attendee and the name and email of the substitute by email colmos@usc.edu. No shows will not be refunded.
Requests for refunds will be honored only if notification of cancellation is received in writing by email to colmos@usc.edu on or before June 10, 2022 for Session 1 and July 25, 2022 for Session 2. Cancellation by telephone is not sufficient. Registrants who fail to cancel in writing will not be refunded their registration fee. No refund will be honored after the event.
Program Details
Degree Awarded
N/A
Estimated Length
Three days
Units
N/A
Program Cost
$230
Modality
- Online
Start Date
Session 1: June 20-22
Session 2: August 3-5
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