They will actively create and solve problems using a variety of techniques following an open-ended heuristic and learn to use assessment measures that encourage depth of understanding, complexity and creativity. Each participant will go home with a packet of materials and a wealth of strategies for challenging a wide range of students to become mathematically promising, including ways to encourage and prepare large numbers of students for advanced mathematics classes. This presentation will examine characteristics and consequences of healthy and unhealthy perfectionism and how to differentiate between the two. Strategies for parents, teachers, counselors, and school districts to help children with perfectionistic tendencies who are underachieving will be shared. This presentation addresses design and implementation of quality products as a key component in programs for the gifted.
Product design incorporates many valuable process skills needed by gifted students.
These include the skills involved in decision making, creative thinking and problem solving, and writing and speaking. Direct involvement in the design and completion of quality products provides students with valuable experiences that enhance their skills in setting goals, conducting research, planning, exercising leadership and management, and evaluation performance. This presentation will focus on ways and means of integrating product design and implementation into programs for the gifted and evaluating the results of the entire product producing experience. Systemwide and School Based Implementation of Differentiated Instruction, or Been There AND Tried That As the diversity in classrooms increases, school administrators are searching for methods that will allow us to accommodate the learning needs of all our students so that all are challenged, but not distressed, by the learning process. This session will reflect the presenter's experiences over a number of years and multiple school systems.