Texas law requires teachers receive 30 hours of training in gifted education to be eligible to teach gifted students. Each course in this 22-course bundle was handpicked by TAGT to meet that 30-hour requirement and to keep your new teachers fully engaged and learning. The TAGT 30-hour Bundle will give your teachers a firm foundation from which to understand and nurture your gifted students by covering core gifted areas, including Nature and Needs, Identification and Assessment, Social and Emotional Needs, Creativity and Instructional Strategies, and Differentiated Curriculum.
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Presenters: Over 20 leading education trainers and practitioners including Debra Troxclair, Ph.D, James Webb, Ph.D, and Lynette Breedlove Level: Elementary & Secondary Hours: 30 -
Presenter: Carol Raymond & Mattie Oveross, TAGTCore Area: Creativity & Instructional StrategiesGrade Level: Elementary & SecondaryHours: 1
Research is showing that grit, perseverance, and persistence are the key factors for a student’s future success. What if you could nurture these traits while simultaneously giving them a love for science, technology, engineering, and math? Trainers Carol Raymond and Mattie Oveross have the strategies to get you started!Visit TAGT On Demand for more online courses.
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Presenter: Lori Comallie-Caplan
Core Area: Social and Emotional
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1Social and emotional needs of gifted children is a hot topic right now, and for good reason. Our gifted students are more than just little (or big!) brains. They require nurturing and development of both their hearts and their minds. So what do we do when that social/emotional development doesn’t keep pace with the cognitive development?
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Presenter: Lisa Van Gemert, Gifted Guru
Core Area: Social & Emotional
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6When is a hyper child not just a hyper child? If this hyper student happens to be gifted, there may be much more to their raucous behavior than a lack of self control. Learn how the unique wiring of a G/T brain enables them to soar, and requires special guidance from you.
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Presenter: Dr. Joyce Juntune, Texas A&M University
Core Area: Social & EmotionalGrade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6
The unique needs and attributes of gifted children extend beyond merely their accelerated cognitive development. They are divergent from average children in social and emotional arenas as well. Because they have special intellectual, emotional, imaginational, psycho-motor, and sensual energies that need to be understood, respected and sometimes redirected it is essential that school districts have a deep understanding of how these children operate beyond just meeting their intellectual needs. In this course, Dr. Juntune will guide you through the unique social and emotional world of a gifted child and demonstrate how schools, teachers and administrators can best serve these children and provide them with the whole person education that they have a right to.
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Presenter: Daniel Brillhart & Nicole Shannon
Core Area: Creativity & Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1
In this course, participants will learn about how TAG (Talented and Gifted) students can be served within the regular classroom without simply “adding more work”. This course offers ideas for creative literature circles, adding depth and complexity, and introducing non-standard problem solving. The presenters share projects and products and include demonstrations of specific instructional activities in language arts and mathematics.Visit TAGT On Demand for more online courses.
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Presenter: Richard M. Cash, Ed.D., nRich Educational Consulting
Core Area: Social and Emotional
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 3
Underrepresented students are at a particular risk for failing to thrive in the gifted classroom. Factors like culture, home life, negative study habits, and perceived lack of resources can put them on an uphill path; but helping them to apply self-regulation strategies can empower them to learn for life.
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Presenter: Richard M. Cash, Ed.D., nRich Educational Consulting
Core Area: Social and Emotional
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1The ability to self-regulate gives students the power to reach new heights in their lives and academic careers. Teachers give an invaluable gift when they pass along the principles of self-regulation to their students.
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Presenter: Richard M. Cash, Ed.D., nRich Educational Consulting
Core Area: Social & Emotional
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1The difference between an Olympic runner and a weekend jogger isn’t simply that one runs faster than the other. Just as an Olympic athlete’s body trains and functions differently, the brain of a gifted student must be trained differently. Gifted courses should not just be harder versions of regular classroom work. They should be tailored and designed to stretch, challenge, and engage the brains of our gifted learners.
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Presenter: Dr. Joyce Juntune, Texas A&M University
Core Area: Identification & Assessment
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6
Each year, thousands of gifted students go undiscovered in our classrooms. Without accurate identification, many of these students will never reach their full potential or benefit from the great resources available in our gifted programs. As teachers and educators in gifted education, one of our top priorities should be the screening, assessment, and identification of our gifted students.
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Presenter: Carol Raymond, EA Young Academy
Core Area: Differentiated Curriculum
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1
Gifted and learning disabled students are both often mislabeled as problem students. In this course, you’ll benefit from first-hand experiences of a mother/daughter team who will remove the mask that often hides the true experience of a 2E or multi-exceptional learner.Visit TAGT On Demand for more online courses.
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Presenter: Deborah Mersino, Ingeniosus
Core Area: Differentiated Curriculum
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1
The ripple effects of exhaustive testing, economic instability, and outdated myths have resulted in ineffective and confused approaches to gifted education in recent decades. Learn how each component has affected G/T instruction, and what you can do to bring positive change.Visit TAGT On Demand for more online courses.Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
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Presenter: Dr. Joyce Juntune, Texas A&M University
Core Area: Creativity & Instruction
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 3
When questioning ceases, the learning stops. Questioning allows your students to build the habit of curiosity. In education, sometimes we think learning is all about the answers, but there is also an art to teaching students to be inquisitive. Great questioning is best taught by teachers who model great questions. This course shows you how.
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Presenters: Amy Willerson & Tara Nyikos, University of North Texas
Core Area: Creativity & Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1Glue! Paint! Glitter! And tiny scraps of paper everywhere! If those images give you anxiety, this 1-hour course will provide a framework for creativity in the classroom that will put your mind at ease. Not all creative learning activities have to be about arts and crafts. Discover how to activate and support your students’ creativity, and learn how to grade the process, not the end result.
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Presenters: Colin Seale
Core Area: Planning 1.2, Planning 1.3, Planning 1.4, Instruction 2.1, Instruction 2.3, Instruction 2.5
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1Have your critical thinking and deeply engaging learning activities left you feeling discouraged? Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be this way. In this 1-hour course, “Planning for Critical Thinking - The Practical Tools to Avoid Disaster,” lawyer and educator Colin Seale shares practical tools you can use to avoid a critical thinking disaster in your classroom. Discover how to use SMART goals and check for understanding in every critical thinking lesson while nurturing higher order thinking in your students.
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Presenter: Dr. Debra Troxclair, Lamar University
Core Area: Social & Emotional
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1
Dr. Debbie Troxclair has been following perfectionism research for the past 40 years. Due to her close study of the subject, and her experience as a teacher, Dr. Troxclair presents a course that is rich in insight and resources. When you purchase Dr. Troxclair’s, Perfection Revisited, you will receive a plethora of information, including ALL of her resources, references, and publications referred to in this presentation.Visit TAGT On Demand for more online courses.
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Presenter: Lisa Van Gemert, Gifted Guru Core Area: Nature & Needs Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary Hours: 1 Imagine making a lifelong, unattainable goal. How would you feel day after day, year after year of continually not reaching your goal? Would it lead to frustration...anxiety...depression? That is the experience of a perfectionist as Lisa Van Gemert, M.Ed.T., explains in “Perfectionism in the Gifted Child.” In this 1-hour course, you will learn the different ways perfectionism is expressed and gain practical strategies for helping students overcome failure. Add to Cart or Click Here for District Pricing -
Presenter: Lisa Van Gemert, Gifted Guru
Core Area: Nature & Needs
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6If you’ve ever been baffled by gifted behavior, wait until you explore your students’ brains! Learn the dynamic forces behind their needs and quirks.
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Presenter: Joyce Juntune, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Core Area: Nature & Needs
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6Understanding gifted children is serious business. They sit in our schools and sometimes go unidentified or remain underserved. Understanding the nature and needs of gifted students empowers teachers to meet their needs and prepare them for success.
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Presenter: Lori Comallie-Caplan
Core Area: Social and Emotional
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1
There is no such thing as healthy perfectionism. The demands of perfectionism can inevitably leave gifted students feeling discouraged and burned out, and that can lead to procrastination. Learn from Ms. Comallie-Caplan’s personal journey as she discusses methodology for helping students move past perfectionism and procrastination.
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Presenter: Lisa Van Gemert, Gifted Guru
Core Area: Creativity and Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1Unpacked bodies mean unpacked brains! Fidgeters and non-fidgeters alike benefit from dynamic movement-based learning. Join Lisa Van Gemert, M.Ed.T, for creative strategies to incorporate kinesthetic learning into your classroom.
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Presenter: James Webb, Ph.D., SENG Founder
Core Area: Social & Emotional
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1
Many gifted children underachieve and have problems with motivation. Motivation, far more than intellectual ability or creativity, can be influenced, shaped, and developed. Learn the most common reasons for motivational problems.Visit TAGT On Demand for more online courses.
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Presenter: Lori Comallie-Caplan
Core Area: Differentiated Curriculum
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1
Gifted students are a lot like snowflakes; no two students are alike. While one student might need very little encouragement to excel, motivating the next might feel like trying to wring sap from a tree with bare hands. There’s no sweeping answer to motivation, but there are prescriptive strategies that can help to encourage the gifted underachiever.
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Presenter: Dr. Diane Heacox, St. Catherine University, St. Paul
Core Area: Nature & Needs
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1
Sometimes students fall short of expectations. They may get lazy or forgetful. But what about specific students that you know are consistently performing well below their potential? In this course, Diane Heacox, Ed.D., draws on her extensive experience working with this population of students. You will learn how to identify them and how to increase their interest and passion in academics.
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