| Concurrent Sessions/Poster Sessions/Jam Sessions Saturday, November 5, 2011 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM SIGNATURE SERIES
Common Core State Standards and Smarter Balanced Consortium: Implications for Gifted Education Elissa Brown, NC Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh, NC; Geoff Coltrane, Institute for Educational Policy, Durham, NC
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The Common Core State Standards Initiative, a state-led effort coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), has created a set of common, grade-level standards for English-language arts and mathematics for grades K-12. The standards were developed in collaboration with teachers, school administrators, and national experts to provide a clear and consistent framework to prepare students for college and the workforce. 44 states and the District of Columbia have adopted the standards, and while two national consortia of states are building assessments on the standards with the intent that all students across the states will know their progress toward college and career readiness. Both the Common Core State Standards and the work of the assessment consortia have implications for gifted education with regards to content, instruction, program delivery, assessment, and accountability. This session provides an overview of the Common Core State Standards and the work of one of the assessment consortia, the 45-state Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, and provides appropriate strategies for consideration in gifted education. Audience: Administrators, Coordinators, Researchers Room: Grand Salon 19 SIGNATURE SERIES
The 21st Century Learner: Implications for Gifted Education Richard M. Cash, Bloomington Public Schools, Bloomington MN It’s no longer enough to be smart, talented, and knowledgeable. For gifted students to be well-prepared for success in this century, they must be well-versed in new ways of thinking and learning. Today’s classroom must be designed
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not to “fill up” students with existing knowledge, but rather to increase their ability to learn independently and to produce new knowledge. This requires teachers of the gifted to possess substantial skills in differentiating curriculum and instruction, and in laying the very foundations of thinking. Strategies like critical reasoning, creative idea generation, problem finding and solving, and decision making get students to “think to learn” and “learn to think.” This session introduces 21st century thinking and learning skills essential for the future success of gifted learners and provides ready-to-use techniques for developing student thinking and ways to encourage gifted students to be more autonomous in their own learning. Audience: Coordinators, Counselors, Parents, Classroom Teachers K-12 Room: Grand Salon 16 SIGNATURE SERIES
Common Ground for Maximizing High Potential: Psychology, Neuroscience, and Education Ann Robinson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR; Rena Subotnik, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC; Nancy Robinson, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Pam Clinkenbeard, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI; Carolyn Callahan, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA How can we use the insights gained from Malleable Minds, a collaborative project of NAGC, the American Psychological Association, the NRC/G/T and the U.S. Department of Education? By bringing together psychologists studying beliefs about ability, neuroscientists investigating brain plasticity, selective attention, executive functioning, and memory, and educators committed to developing high potential, we have found connections, directions, and common ground. Drawing on research, translations to gifted and talented education, and engaging studies of classrooms and schools, an interactive panel of experts explores answers and questions about the development of talents. Audience: Administrators, Advocates/Association Leaders, Coordinators, Parents, Researchers, Classroom Teachers K-12 Room: Rosedown
National Association for Gifted Children | Advancing Potential and All That Jazz