Professional Development Opportunities:

Region 10 Consultants provide professional development and support to educators working with Gifted & Talented students/programs. For reference, we have also published an overview of Advanced Academics Training Components and the Basic Funding Structure.

We look forward to providing the following Advanced Academics professional development opportunities:

Advanced Academics: GT Leadership Update Meetings - Winter, 2008
(various locations and dates for update meetings from TEA for GT District personnel

Advanced Academics: GT Module Training - 2008-2009
(various locations and dates for face2face training as well as online module training)

Advanced Academics: Gifted Education Training for Counselors
(3 opportunities: August 18, 2008, September 26, 2008 and October 9, 2008)

Advanced Academics: Gifted Education Training for Administrators
(2 opportunities: September 2, 2008 and September 16, 2008)

Advanced Academics - Introduction to Robotics in the Classroom

(for members of the Advanced Academics Coop: October 8, 2008)

Advanced Academics - Gifted Speakers Bureau "A Whole New Mind" by Daniel H. Pink -

Socratic Forum Book Study via Videoconference

(for members of the Advanced Academics Coop: October 14, 2008, October 28, 2008 or November 4, 2008 plus November 11, 2008)

Advanced Academics - Gifted Speakers Bureau: Higher Order Literacy: A G/T Approach to Developing Essential Reading and Thinking Skills
(for members of the Advanced Academics Coop: October 10, 2008)

Advanced Academics - Gifted Speakers Bureau: Barbara Mayo: Diverse Gifted Learners
(6 hr. update credit for members of the Advanced Academics Coop: December 9, 2008)

Igniting Improvement in High School - 2009 High School Summit

(June 15-16, 2009)

Advanced Academics -Gifted Education 30 Hrs. Institutes

Advanced Academics -Gifted Education Online - 30 Hr. Endorsement available in 5 online modules

Advanced Academics -G/T 6 Hr. Update - Online

                    Register on the Region 10 Calendar of Events

 

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• Additional opportunities for 6 hr. G/T Updates are advertised through the Advanced Academics listserv.  If you would like to become a member of that listserv, email Diane Wilcox at diane.wilcox@region10.org or Pat Gay patricia.gay@region10.org.
  

To review a listing of most upcoming Advanced Academics (Gifted & Talented) professional development opportunities:

• Open the Calendar of Events ("Advanced Search" area),
• go to "Subject Area" and scroll down to select "Gifted and Talented", and
• click "Find Events" at the bottom of the page.
  
  Note: You may also enter the exact date to locate a workshop of interest.