Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Wednesday Essentials
10:30 AM to 4:30 PM
GEN: Gifted Education Essentials: Your Toolkit for Delivering Successful Programs and Services (General Session) 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
W1: Program Models and Program Design in Gifted Education
W2: Designing and Choosing Effective Curriculum for Gifted Learners: Key Considerations
W3: Evaluation for Program Improvement and Documentation
W4: Creating Classroom Environments to Foster Social and Emotional Development
W5: Assessment and Identification
W6: Instructional Strategies for Differentiation within the Classroom
W7: Effective Professional Development
W8: Creating Programs and Services to Meet the Needs of Culturally and Linguistically Different Gifted Students
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Thursday Expert Perspectives
8:30 AM to 11:15 AM
A: Unleashing Your Own Leadership Style for NAGC
B: Digital Storytelling: Narratives for the 21st Century
C: Challenging Talented Readers
D: Taking the 1st Step: Designing PCM Units of Instruction
E: Invest in America's Future: Maximize the Challenge for STEM Students
F: Making Sense of Underachievement: A Counselor''s Perspective
G: Developing Leaders for Today''s World: Service Learning for Gifted Students
H: Technology: Gifted Learners and 21st Century Skills
I: Critical Conversations About Gifted Education in America: From the Voices of African-American, Hispanic, Asian, Gay, and Native -American Leaders in the Field
J: Differentiation through the Development and Assessment of Products 12:30 PM to 3:15 PM
K: Leadership in Gifted Education: How to Remain at the Table and Stay Off the
L: The Pressures Gifted Children Feel: Why Some Underachieve plus Practical Strategies For Reversing Underachievement
M: Gifted Education: A Sherpa for Guiding Everyone to New Heights
N: The Road Less Traveled: Combining Creative Thinking and Differentiation
O: Response to Intervention: A Problem-Solving Approach for Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Students
P: Thinking Tools for 21st Century Gifted Students
Q: Addressing and Meeting the Needs of Young Gifted Learners Utilizing Project-Based Learning
R: Professional Development 2.0
S: Plugging into Creative Outlets
T: Program Evaluation and Your Gifted Services: Resources, Strategies and Tools You Can Use
Friday, November 12, 2010
Special Populations
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
27.1 Differentiation Made Easy: Enrichment Resources For Diverse Students
Arts
1.1 Scenes With No Names: A New Approach to Teaching Character-Driven Creative Writing
Computers and Technology
3.1 Best Practices for Teaching Gifted Students Online
Curriculum Studies
11.1 Beyond the Textbooks: Making History Real for Gifted Students
The Great War--Building a Living Map
Middle Grades
Has Your Brain Said Thank You Today? Curriculum that Stretches Minds
Parent-Community
Nature Deficit No More- Taking the Learning Outdoors
Computers and Technology
Surfin' the Gifted Wave: Using Technology to Provide Professional Development to Gifted Specialists
Parent-Community
21.1 Nurturing Flexible Thinkers Using the Six Thinking Hats
Creativity Division
35.1 Brazilian school principals' perception of obstacles and strategies for fostering creativity in the classroom
Global Awareness
17.1 Changing 8th Grade GT Students' Global Awareness One Blog At A Time
Research and Evaluation
Summer Academic Programs and Longitudinal Educational-Vocational Outcomes Among the Exceptionally Gifted
Middle Grades
37.1 Don't Just Talk About The World! Change It! The Future City Competition
Conceptual Foundations
5.1 The Multiple Definitions of Multipotentiality: Is It Common or Nonexistent, and Does It Even Matter?
Early Childhood
Literature for High Ability Kindergarten Students
Curriculum Studies
13.1 Gifted First Responders:RtI for Regular and Gifted Education
Professional Development
23.1 Gifted & Talented 2.0
Conceptual Foundations
Still Gifted? The Lives of Underserved Adults
Professional Development
Fidelity of Implementation: A Tool for Gathering Data on What's Happening in the Classroom
Special Populations
29.1 SEARCHING FOR BURIED TREASURE; HOW THE EVOLUTION OF A FASHION DESIGN CURRICULUM CHANGED LIVES
Counseling and Guidance
Why Didn't the Gifted Valedictorian Get In?
7.1 Ego Development, Dabrowskis Theory of Positive Disintegration, and the Behavioral Characteristics of Gifted Adolescents
Creativity Division
Creative Teaching for Visual-Spatial Learners: A Difficult Balancing Act
Global Awareness
19.1 Writing the Future in the Past: Classic Science Fiction and Its Legacy of Tolerance
Parent-Community
Testing 2010: A Springboard to Effective Academic Advocacy
Special Populations
Building resilience among promising CLED students
Curriculum Studies
15.1 Focused Writing: Moving Beyond Spell Check
Math and Science
31.1 The Images of Mathematics and Mathematical Strategies of Gifted Children
Global Awareness
Community Action: Why this is an Essential Component of the Complete Gifted Program
Counseling and Guidance
9.1 The New Gifted GLBT Teenager
Curriculum Studies
GOTTA SEE IT and FEEL IT TO COMPREHEND IT!
Conceptual Foundations
Genetic Studies of Genius: A Century of Questions from Lewis Terman
Math and Science
A Circle Has How Many Lines of Symmetry? Challenging Elementary Math Students to Think Beyond
Global Awareness
Global Advocates for Gifted Education
Math and Science
Engaging Elementary Students in Epidemiology: A Parallel Curriculum Unit of Study
Special Schools/Programs
A Sea of Free Association: Best Practices from a Successful After-School Program
Middle Grades
Self-Knowledge + Self-Expression = Self-Advocacy
Math and Science
33.1 Gifted Spatial Learners: Course Preference and Spatial Reasoning
Creativity Division
Shaking Hands with the Future: Implementing Torrances Incubation Model of Teaching 20 Years Later
Counseling and Guidance
Mindfulness + Intensity + Sensitivity = Calm Gifted Kids
Arts
Dim the Lights and Illuminate the arts
Research and Evaluation
NCSSSMST - An Instrument for Assessing the Status of S3 Program Graduates
Counseling and Guidance
NCSSSMST - Non-Cognitive Factors and Motivation: Attending to the Other Half of College Readiness
NCSSSMST - How to get your students admitted into highly selective universities
Computers and Technology
020: Mind The Gap! Using Technology Effectively in the Gifted Classroom
Conceptual Foundations
030: A new vision of gifted education
Counseling and Guidance
040: Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Textures: Addressing the Sensory Sensitivities of the Gifted Child
Curriculum Studies
050: Using Creativity and Innovation to Revolutionize the RTI/DI Classroom
Math and Science
060: Without Geometry, Life Is Pointless
Professional Development
080: Critical Peers: Using Online Video Sharing to Maximize the Performance of Teachers of the Gifted
Research and Evaluation
090: Relating Perfectionism, Overexcitabilities and Depressive Symptoms in Gifted Adolescents in Paraguay
Computers and Technology
10: Parallel Curriculum: Approaching Level Web 3.0
Research and Evaluation
100: Use of Service Learning: A bridge to student retention
NAGC
8:50 AM to 10:20 AM
110: Mini Keynote: Best Practices for Working with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Gifted Students
120: Mini Keynote: Creativity, Imagination, and Innovation - The New World Order
130: Mini Keynote: Using Technology in the Classroom to Differentiate for Gifted Learners
Curriculum Studies
10:40 AM to 11:40 AM
Because State Standards are Just Not Sufficient: Developing Benchmarks to Assess Gifted Learner Growth
Research and Evaluation
26.1 Academic Acceleration in Florida Elementary Schools
Professional Development
24.1 DI: Painless Aide for General Ed Teachers
Special Populations
32.1 South Asian students in gifted education: Importance of the home-school connection
Special Schools/Programs
14.1 Preparing Great Minds: One School's Journey in Implementing the School-wide Enrichment Model
Curriculum Studies
8.1 Classroom Practices and Perceptions of Giftedness Among Teachers in an Accelerated Summer Program
Professional Development
22.1 Preparing Leaders in Gifted & Talented Education: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Creativity Division
Fostering Creativity, Individualism, and the Imaginative Spirit
Global Awareness
18.1 Inquiry, International Baccalaureate and the Gifted Child: Breathing Life into a World Class, World School
Counseling and Guidance
Emotional Regulation in Gifted Students
Parent-Community
20.1 Parenting and Teaching the Gifted
Creativity Division
36.1 Evaluation of Destination ImagiNation Program; Program Outcomes for Creativity, Problem-Solving and Team Building
Counseling and Guidance
Fostering Good Emotional Intelligence Along With Cognitive Intelligence Why It Is Imperative We Do So
Arts
2.3 Arts Avenues: Applying Talents for a Greater Good
Counseling and Guidance
Self-injurious behavior in gifted and talented youth: What every educator should know
Conceptual Foundations
Connectivism as Emerging Theory and Practice for Gifted Students in the 21st Century
Middle Grades
38.1 Rigor and Relevance for Middle School Students
Conceptual Foundations
4.1 They Know It When They See It: Or Do They? Educator Perceptions of Giftedness
Research and Evaluation
An Investigation of the Efficacy of Advanced Math Curriculum Focused on Geometry and Measurement
Early Childhood
Taking It Higher: Challenging Early Readers in the Primary Language Arts Classroom
Math and Science
Challenging Mathematically Talented Students in the NCLB, CBI, RtI, DT->PI Environment
Curriculum Studies
10.1 Creating Differentiated Learning Choices for All Students
Counseling and Guidance
6.1 The Gifted Military Child
Parent-Community
Casting Your Social Net Into CyberSpace
Special Populations
16.1 Attracting Gifted Girls in Math and Science via Periodic Camps
Parent-Community
Humor, Heart and Hope: Gifted Advocacy Tools That Work
Professional Development
Practical Suggestions for Sustaining and Differentiating Professional Development to Respond to Teacher Needs
Global Awareness
The Great Trek: A Longitudinal Study of the Impact of a Gifted Education Program (1970-1995)
Curriculum Studies
12.1 Meaningful Grammar: Understanding the Language of Writing
Math and Science
'This experiment is sick!' Girls loving hands-on STEM activities available through an NDSCS outreach program
Special Populations
34.1 The Phenomenon of Underachievement: Listening to the Voice of a Twice Exceptional Adolescent
Math and Science
30.1 Math for the Fun of It!
Research and Evaluation
Direct and Indirect Effects of Creativity and Personality on Suicidal Ideation among Honors College Students
Special Populations
The Need for Cross-Cultural Education: A Gifted Program Evaluation Plan
Curriculum Studies
Are Your Students Future-Ready? Assessing 21st Century Skills and Knowledge through Creative Products
Global Awareness
The Horizons Project: Self-Directed Learning and Assessment in the Secondary Classroom
Curriculum Studies
Birds, Frogs and...Socrates???
Research and Evaluation
Applying Advanced Statistical Techniques to Research Giftedness: Implications for Administrators and Researchers
Special Populations
Dont Throw Mama From the Train: Serving Special Populations with Dwindling Funds and Resources
Special Schools/Programs
Considerations in Ethics
Math and Science
Come on Down: Engaging Students in the Mathematics Behind Game Shows
Computers and Technology
2.1 Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction & Engage High Ability Learners
Math and Science
28.1 Engineering in Elementary School? Yes You Can!
Special Schools/Programs
University-Based Summer Camps for Gifted Students: Learning from the Professionals
Math and Science
NCSSSMST - Teacher Evaluation in a Specialized Science High School: A Case Study
NCSSSMST - Inventiveness in High School Curricula
Computers and Technology
NCSSSMST - Using Social Media to Connect Students, Parents & Alumni
Signature Series
2010 Early Scholar: Building Support for Gifted Education in AP and Secondary Settings
Math and Science
070: Building and Evaluating a STEM Pipeline: Preliminary Insights from Project STEM Starters
Computers and Technology
140: 21st Century Explorations: Using Primary-Source Songs, Film, and Images to Explore Complex Issues
Creativity Division
150: Nurturing Creative Thinking and Long-Term Learning
Curriculum Studies
160: Be Armed: Research Support for Differentiated Curriculum and Instruction
Middle Grades
170: Escalating Language Arts/ Reading for Talented Elementary and Middle Grades Readers and Writers
180: Encouraging Great Minds to Lead the Way in Middle School
Research and Evaluation
190: Project Clarion: Assessing Science Reasoning and Conceptual Understanding in the Primary Grades Using Performance Measures
Signature Series
200: Creativity Follow-Up Panel (Presenter 1)
210: Creativity Follow-Up Panel (Presenter 2)
Special Schools/Programs
230: How Many of Them Can You Expect to Find? Finding and Serving Twice Exceptional Learners
240: The Da Vinci Academy: A 21st-Century One-Room Schoolhouse 11:55 AM to 12:40 PM
Dreamfest: A Conference Connecting Gifted and Talented Students with Community Resources
Creativity Division
The Creativity Connection for 21st Century Learning
Global Awareness
Educating Students for a Sustainable World
Special Populations
Gifted Learners have Learning Differences Too!
Computers and Technology
10 Ted Talks That Will Transform Your Teaching
Math and Science
The SMART Center: An Authentic Research Experience in Magnetic Resonance for Middle and High-School Students
Computers and Technology
Matching Online Learning to Gifted Students
Middle Grades
Streamlining Planning for Differences in the Middle School Classroom
Parent-Community
Service-Learning: Leading the Way to a Better Tomorrow
Professional Development
EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS AND EDUCATION FOR THE GIFTED: CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN POTENTIAL AND ACHIEVEMENT
Special Schools/Programs
Creating and Sustaining a Program for Highly Gifted Learners
Opportunities Leading to Successful Experiences: Positive Perceptions of Low-Income Students in Out-of-School Enrichment Programs
Curriculum Studies
Effectively Serving Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom Setting
Professional Development
Providing Differentiation for the Gifted at the Unit Level - A Systematic Plan
Computers and Technology
3 - Integrating Science and Technology through Handheld GPS/GIS Systems in Inclusive Classrooms
Counseling and Guidance
Perfectionism: Causes and Helping Kids Build Strategies to Counter It
Global Awareness
Seeking their Spark: Helping Globally Gifted Kids Find Meaning & Purpose
Conceptual Foundations
Hong Kong Chinese Parents' Conceptions of Giftedness
Arts
Integrating "The Arts" Into Your Gifted Curriculum
Math and Science
Mathematical Proof (and Counterexample)
Professional Development
NCSSSMST - Recipe for Vertical Alignment using performace standard (NSS) and Inquiry Based Learning
Math and Science
NCSSSMST - Triangle Triage: Exploring The 3E's of Sustainability In The Classroom for Grades 6-12
NCSSSMST - Secondary Mathematics: Depth vs. Acceleration
Creativity Division
01: How Teachers Engage in Personal and Professional Creativity
Arts
250: Artistic Ways of Knowing - Talent Identification and Development in the Arts
Counseling and Guidance
260: Affective Curriculum for the Gifted: Linking Social-Emotional Needs and Content Standards
270: Using Cinematherapy to address the social and emotional needs of gifted elementary students
Curriculum Studies
280: Great Minds Leading the Way: Designing Challenging Research Projects for Elementary Gifted Students
290: Project M2 Mentoring Young Mathematicians: New Advanced Curriculum for Primary Students
300: Digging Deeper into Bloom's Taxonomy: Mining Complexity
Early Childhood
310: Literary Analysis for Young Gifted Children:
Middle Grades
320: Threads and Themes in the Middle School Diverse Classroom
Research and Evaluation
330: The Influence of State Policy on Gifted Program Evaluation
Special Populations
340: GIfted Underachievement
350: Practical Strategies for the Differentiation of Instruction for Underrepresented Gifted Learners
Arts
910: The New Art Appreciation: Responding through Movement and Sound as Well as Words!
Math and Science
1:15 PM to 2:15 PM
Jump Rope Geometry
Research and Evaluation
43.1 Bullying and Victimization among Gifted and High-Achieving High School Students
Special Populations
45.1 Quest for the Camouflaged Gifted: Alabama Reports on the Status of Under-represented Populations
Curriculum Studies
9.2 An Instructional Trilogy: Using Real World Problems, Rigor and Technology in the Classroom
Computers and Technology
3.2 Got Robots? Using Robotics to Build Great Minds!
Arts
1.2 Important Career Skills and Competencies for Artistically Gifted Students
Global Awareness
17.2: 100,000 Hypothetical Grant Project
Middle Grades
Mock Trials and Studying Supreme Court Civil Rights Decisions: Differentiating History and Language Arts Curricula
Conceptual Foundations
5.2 Toward Flow in the Classroom: The Affective Aim of Differentiation
Creativity Division
Torrance Tests, Science, and Future Problem Solving: A great mix
Parent-Community
21.2 Lost in the Woods: A bread crumb trail for parents
Parenting to Prevent and Reverse Underachievement
Computers and Technology
Computer-Assisted Interactive Instruction: The Next Generation of Professional Development
Special Populations
47.1 Persistence to Graduation: Coordinating Transition Resources and Services for Secondary At-Risk Gifted Students
Curriculum Studies
11.2 Paving Pathways for Great Minds: Constructing and Enriching Knowledge During the 90 Minutes and Beyond
Early Childhood
15.2 Differentiating for the gifted using curriculum compacting and independent study in the general classroom
Conceptual Foundations
Advanced Development: A New Perspective on Adult Giftedness
Special Schools/Programs
24.4 Starting and Developing Programs for Gifted Mexican Children
Special Populations
Lessons Learned from Project HOPE: Recognizing Giftedness Among Children of Poverty
Counseling and Guidance
7.2 Addressing Paradoxical Behaviors in Highly Gifted Students
Curriculum Studies
13.2 Brain Power Day: Best Practices in the General Ed. Classroom
Parent-Community
One day parent convention at the district level: If you create it will they come?
Special Populations
Inviting the Uninvited to the Party: Online Learning for Gifted Students with Unique Situations
Math and Science
27.2 Science, Literacy, and Justice for All
Special Populations
Identifying Gifted and Talented Hispanic Students: Using a Body of Evidence to Dramatically Increase Representation
Math and Science
Alongside Intellect: Affect in Mathematics Learning
Research and Evaluation
Hearing their voices: What gifted adults say about growing up gifted
Creativity Division
Why Is Creativity at the Top of Blooms Taxonomy?
A Renaissance in Your Classroom - Creative Encounters through Problem Solving and Arts Integration
Arts
Arts Infusion and the gifted curriculum
Conceptual Foundations
What neuroscience tells us about intelligence, cognitive styles and creativity, and its implication for education
Parent-Community
19.2 Why Advocacy: Challenging and Engaging the Gifted Student
Curriculum Studies
Our Journey into RtI and Gifted Education: Voices from the Classroom
Get Out of Your Seat! Drama Based Strategies to Promote Higher Level Thinking
Counseling and Guidance
Test this, not that! Re-examining personality assessment of gifted/talented adolescents
Global Awareness
An Early Blueprint for Teaching Global Awareness: Leta Hollingworth's Speyer School Curriculum
Counseling and Guidance
Feed the Teachers So They Won't Eat the Students: Satisfying Solutions for Building School REALationships
Math and Science
NCSSSMST - Guiding Student Research: A Resource for Enhancing Student Inquiry
NCSSSMST - Bridging the gap between high school and college: How to modify traditional high school and college mathematics curricula to meet the needs of talented students.
NCSSSMST - Mathematics Enrichment Through Math Teams (the Georgia Way)
Signature Series
1110: RtI for Gifted Children: A Goodness of Fit?
Conceptual Foundations
360: Contemporary models of giftedness and what they should look like
Counseling and Guidance
370: Gifted Girls and the Psychology of Strength
Creativity Division
380: Eureka! I've Got It! Using Biographies to Teach Strategies for Facilitating the Creative Process
Curriculum Studies
390: Contemporary Inclusive Programming for Talent Development: Opportunities and Directions
Early Childhood
400: Integrating the STEM disciplines into Preschool and K/1 Project Investigations
Math and Science
410: Teaching Gifted Standards through STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
Middle Grades
420: Using Formative Assessments to Challenge Gifted Middle School Students
Research and Evaluation
430: Elementary Teachers' Preparednes to Differentiate Math Instruction for Gifted Learners
440: The Joy of Program Evaluation!? Confessions of a Happy Coordinator
Signature Series
450: Successful Strategies of Specialized STEM Schools: Application to Public Schools
Special Schools/Programs
460: Leading Extra-Curricular Academic Programs: How to Develop Talent in Your School
Math and Science
2:30 PM to 3:00 PM
1 - Engineering Design Challenges in the Elementary Classroom 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
31.3 Yes, It is Rocket Science
Conceptual Foundations
Response to Intervention and Gifted and Talened Education: A conceptual comparison and critique
Research and Evaluation
44.1 Gifted kids' time spent outside the classroom
Conceptual Foundations
Barbies and Bionicles
Intelligences Outside the Normal Curve: Characteristics of People Who Have Made a Difference
Research and Evaluation
Baseline Classroom Observation Results from Project CLUE-Plus: The State of Differentiated Instruction
Global Awareness
18.2 The Dalai Lama's Vision: Creating a Gifted Program in a Tibetan Childrens Village School
Curriculum Studies
8.2 Universal Design for Learning : Creating Master Teachers and Master Learners
Special Schools/Programs
14.2 Breaking the Box: Innovative Programming for Gifted Middle Schoolers
Special Populations
46.1 I didn't know that: Current Research in Twice Exceptional Education
Professional Development
26.2 Barriers to Implementation of Research-Based Language Arts Curriculum: Factors Limiting Accelerative Strategies
Parent-Community
22.2 Parental Choices: Summer Programming and Enrichment Options
Math and Science
Wholemovement is Folding Circles
Global Awareness
With great talent comes great responsibility: Guiding youth to meaningful applications for their talents
Curriculum Studies
10.2 A Unit of Courage: A Differentiated Literacy Unit
Global Awareness
20.2 The Wonder of World Wisdom: Knowledge Comes But Wisdom Lingers
Research and Evaluation
A Retrospective Study of an Early College Entrance Science Program in China
Creativity Division
40.1 Creativity and Differentiation: Using the Arts to Teach about Ecology
Counseling and Guidance
6.2 Creating a Caring Classroom for Creative Kids: Practical Strategies for Aiding Social and Emotional Development
Special Populations
48.1 Regional Scholars
Parent-Community
The Triad Model of a Successful Program for Highly Gifted Students: Parents, Students and Educators
Special Populations
4.2 Dual Diagnosed: Gifted and Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)-What Does This Mean?
Curriculum Studies
12.2 Differentiation Divas: Revitalize Your Sixth Grade Curriculum with Differentiation in All Core Subjects
Counseling and Guidance
2.2 Factors Influencing Career Choice of High-Achieving High School Students
Math and Science
28.2 The Crazy Elizabeth Color Counting System: An Other Alternative Number Systems
Computers and Technology
Robotics for the classroom, clubs, and competitions
Early Childhood
Bridges to Opera: Explorations using the Project Approach
Counseling and Guidance
16.2 High Achieving African-American Adolescent Students' Perceptions of their Teachers
Arts
Arts All Day!
Computers and Technology
Meeting of the Minds: Technology Tools to Access Shared Thinking and Strengthen Collaborations
Special Populations
The AP Challenge Program: Support and Success for All
Counseling and Guidance
Contemplative Education: Alternative Strategies for Meeting Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Learners
Professional Development
NCSSSMST - Making the Grade: A look at traditional and digital assessment
Math and Science
NCSSSMST - Advanced DNA/Genetics - Beyond AP - Working at a University Level
Computers and Technology
470: Geocaching with Students- Finding Hidden Treasure Using Modern Technology
Conceptual Foundations
480: Promoting the Dream: Secondary Gifted Adolescents in a Global Community
490: Philosophical Sense and the Gifted
Middle Grades
510: Middle School and the Demographic, Research, and Ethical Basis for Differentiation
Parent-Community
520: Getting Over Overexcitabilities: Effectively Managing Family Interactions when Family Members have Different Overexcitabilities
Professional Development
530: Leading the Way Through Effective Professional Development in Gifted Education:
Research and Evaluation
540: Measuring attitudes related to underachievement
Signature Series
550: Bullet Proofing Your Gifted Program
560: The Revised NAGC P-12 Program Standards: The Foundation for Quality Gifted Education Services
Special Populations
570: RtI & Twice Exceptional: A Promising Fit
580: Multicultural Approaches to Engage Diverse Gifted Learners in Social Sciences
Math and Science
3:00 PM to 3:30 PM
1 - Optics, Lenses, and Telescopes for Gifted Elementary Students
Professional Development
3:45 PM to 4:45 PM
25.1 The College-Readiness System
Research and Evaluation
4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
5.3 Identification of Highly Gifted Five and Six Year-Old Children: Methods to Predict Academic Achievement
Curriculum Studies
Credit Flexibility: An entire state requires alternatives to seat time for high school credit
9.3 Teaching the Scientific Method Through Literature
Special Populations
43.2 Vision and Learning: The Twice Exceptional Child
Early Childhood
Growing Young Gifted Readers with Good Books and Grand Conversations
Conceptual Foundations
41.2 Gifted Education Clarified Through Visual Explanations
Middle Grades
SOCRATIC SEMINARS: Teaching 21st Century Skills with a 4th Century BCE Technique
37.2 Have Students-Will Travel
Special Populations
Using a NonVerbal Ability Test: Helping All Gifted Children Learn
45.2 Tiers of Support and Challenge for Twice-Exceptional Learners
Professional Development
15.3 The Disposition of Empathy: How Can it Be Cultivated in Future Teachers of the Gifted?
Curriculum Studies
11.3 Proficiency-Based Grading: Right for Gifted Students, Right for all Students!
Special Populations
47.2 Mindfulness in the Gifted Classroom
Parent-Community
29.2 The Wonderful and Amazing Job of Parenting the Gifted
Curriculum Studies
Problem Solved!
Special Populations
1.3 Gifted Children in Todays Hip Hop Culture: Timely Recommendations for Teachers and Parents
Research and Evaluation
Students Perceptions of Classroom Activities in China and the United States
Counseling and Guidance
Interviewing to get to the root of underachievement
Parent-Community
Gifted African-American Students Need Culturally Relevant Curricula and Teachers
Counseling and Guidance
7.3 Therapeutic Boarding School: When traditional approaches fail
Creativity Division
39.2 Are Creativity Tests Susceptible to Coaching?
Research and Evaluation
Motivation Factors and College Choice among Gifted Students: Findings from Education Longitudinal Study of 2002
Creativity Division
Problem Solving Across the Curriculum
35.2 Form Follows Function - Architecture in Action
Early Childhood
A Buffet of Ideas: Creating Menus in Social Studies and Science for Gifted Primary Students
Middle Grades
The 10 Best Things We've Done This Year
Math and Science
Mathematics Achievement: Relations among teacher instruction, teacher knowledge, and student outcomes
31.2 Problem-Based Learning: Leadership Through Collaboration and Community Involvement
Computers and Technology
3.3 Are Gifted Learners W.I.R.E.D. to be 21st Century Leaders?
Math and Science
25.2 Features of Gifted Students' Performance in Creative Science Inquiry Projects in Korea
33.2 The Relationship Between Elementary Teachers' Mathematics Content Knowledge and Quality of Instruction
Signature Series
The Social and Emotional Development of Students with Gifts and Talents
Mind the (Other) Gap! The Growing Excellence Gap in K-12 Education
Math and Science
NCSSSMST - Physics is really fun if you don''t tell them its physics
Creativity Division
NCSSSMST - Creating Architectural Design Projects
Arts
590: Artistic Gifts and Talents: The DMGT in an Artistic Context
Computers and Technology
600: Networking: 21st Century Style
Conceptual Foundations
610: Finding John Galt: People, Politics, and Practice in Gifted Education
Counseling and Guidance
620: The pivotal role of gifted self-experience in performance and emotional health.
Creativity Division
630: Celebrating Young Gifted Authors: The Torrance Legacy Creative Writing Awards
Curriculum Studies
640: The Role of Critical and Creative Thinking in the Development of Understanding and Expertise
Math and Science
650: S.T.E.A.M.: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math in the Construction of a Miniature Golf Course
Professional Development
660: Statewide Professional Development in Dire Economic Times
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Math and Science
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
30.2 The Davidson Fellows: Case Studies in Science Talent Development
Middle Grades
Are We Teaching Our Best Writers to Write Like Beginners?
Special Schools/Programs
Living the Dream: Creating and Growing a School for Gifted Learners
Special Populations
Swimming Upstream: Urban Schools, Underrepresented Gifted Children, and the Struggle for Gifted Education
Research and Evaluation
Self-concept and Academic Performance in Gifted High School Students in Kenya: A Cluster Analysis
Math and Science
32.2 Using Gifted High School Math Tutors for Gifted Elementary Students
Counseling and Guidance
Differential diagnosis and treatment of highly gifted children with autism-spectrum-like behaviors: Psychological and physiological considerations
Professional Development
Navigating Through the Maze of Standards: Looking For Appropriate Instruction for Gifted and Advanced Learners
Computers and Technology
Alternative Ways for Gifted Kids to Reach Their Potential Virtually
Curriculum Studies
Leta was Right! The Bountiful Benefits of Biography
Professional Development
Using Film to Teach Cultural Bias in a Gifted Teacher Endorsement Program
Special Populations
44.2 The Gifted Military Child--On the Move
Counseling and Guidance
Organizationally Challenged? How Developing Executive Function Can Help the Gifted
Conceptual Foundations
4.3 Drawing as an Alternative Identification Strategy for Gifted Children: Using the DAP-IQ
Special Populations
Twice Exceptional: Students with Both Gifts and Disabilities
Parent-Community
Be Reasonable! How to ask for the possible from your child's teacher.
Global Awareness
18.3 Enhancing Social Connection and Positive Engagement in a Global World through Mindfulness and Lovingkindness Practice
Middle Grades
38.2 The Fusion of Creativity and Differentiation to Engage Gifted Middle School Learners
Exploring the Future in Language Arts and Math
Parent-Community
Academic Acceleration: Student and Parent Voices of Experience
Computers and Technology
Integrating Web 2.0 and Technology in Honors Mentorship
Arts
The Art Critique
Research and Evaluation
42.2 Increasing Culturally Diverse Representation in Gifted Programs: Are We Overidentifying White Students in the Process?
Computers and Technology
Virtual TAG - Now You're It!
Special Populations
46.2 Dare to Dream: Promoting the Success of Elementary Gifted Ethnic Minority Students
Professional Development
Using a Computerized Classroom Simulator to Prepare Educators of Gifted Students: Year 2 Update
Curriculum Studies
10.3 Differentiating instruction to increase the complexity and multicultural levels of lessons
Counseling and Guidance
6.3 Great Minds at Risk: Who's Listening?
Curriculum Studies
12.3 Empowering Gifted Students With Differentiated Research Projects
Creativity Division
36.2 The Importance of Individual Creative Experiences in Defining Creativity for Programs for Talented Students
Global Awareness
16.3 Does immersing diverse culture benefit to be creative? : How and Why?
Early Childhood
From Questioning to Thinking: A Taxonomy of Choices
Signature Series
What it Takes to Get Published: Tips From Journal Editors for Successfully Publishing
Parent-Community
40.2 The Attitudes of Korean Parents and Adolescents Toward Academic Brilliance
Global Awareness
The Highs and Lows of Emotional and Spiritual Giftedness
Creativity Division
I imagine therefore I am: Promoting imagination in gifted students in the era of creativity
Special Populations
Preparing for Life After High School: Bright Kids with LD and the College Setting
Closing the Socioeconomic (Dis)advantage Gap in Gifted Identification
48.2 Autistic Spectrum Disorder or Gifted? Meeting the needs of high ability students with ASD .
Computers and Technology
Multimedia and hypertext in the gifted math classroom: Tools for visualizing the problem-solving process
Counseling and Guidance
8.3 X Games: Purposeful self-reflection opportunities for intense students through eXciting activities
Signature Series
How to Write a Winning NAGC Convention Proposal
Professional Development
NCSSSMST - Empowering the Teaching Professional through Project Management Planning
Early Childhood
1570W: Intentionality, Spontaneity, and Appropriateness: Planning for Young Gifted Children
Curriculum Studies
670W: Peeking into Classrooms: A Look at Parallel Curriculum Model Teaching and Curricular Design
680: The Experiential Gap: Responding to the Achievement Gap and Underachievement
Early Childhood
690: Learners with Great Promise: Metacognitive Skills for Primary Gifted
Global Awareness
700W: Infusing Civic Engagement into the Curriculum
Middle Grades
710: Moving the past forward: Enhancing and differentiating middle school social studies curriculum.
Professional Development
720: Professional Development on a Budget
Research and Evaluation
730: Discovering Children who are Passionate about Learning: Parents and childs view
740: Gifted and Talented Student Identification Using Behavior Checklists, Nominations, and Rating Forms: Psychometrics, Research, Practice
750: Examining the Effects of Total School Cluster Grouping on Student Achievement, Identification, and Teaching Practices
Special Populations
760: Javits-Frasier Scholars Making a Real Difference in Our Schools
770: Exercising their Options: African American Parents Homeschooling their gifted and high ability learners
NAGC
8:50 AM to 10:20 AM
780W: General Session: Carol S. Dweck
Parent-Community
10:40 AM to 11:40 AM
Parents and Primary Students Learning Intellectual Growth Strategies: Collaborating with Cultural Venues
Professional Development
Case Studies: Exploring Issues in Gifted Education
Conceptual Foundations
The Changing Face of Gifted Education in Georgia
Special Populations
Supporting Gifted Hispanic Students Through Children's Literature
Arts
Using Music to Build Creative & Divergent Thinking: Auditory Thinking Strategies
Math and Science
33.3 Teaching Economics through Children's Literature and Hands-on Activities
Curriculum Studies
RX for Success: Strategies 101
Creativity Division
Synthesis of Creativity, Art, and Engineering: An Interdisciplinary Journey
Special Schools/Programs
29.3 Gifted Services and School Reform: a Year Round and Magnet School Perspective
Professional Development
Observing Instruction for Evidence of Differentiation
Middle Grades
I Read, Therefore I Am: Bibliotherapy and Identity Formation in Middle School
Counseling and Guidance
Change, Loss, and Giftedness: A Counselor Examines the Intersection
Research and Evaluation
A Comparison of Adolescent and Parent Reports of Overexcitability
Middle Grades
A Bonding Experience
Special Schools/Programs
Starting a School/Program for Gifted Students: Do your Homework First!
Global Awareness
21.3 Exploring Your Watershed
Conceptual Foundations
1.4 The Power of Negative Thinking
Middle Grades
37.3 Shakespeare: Old World Meets New Age Technology
Computers and Technology
Bridging the Technology Divide Between Classroom and Community
Math and Science
Project GEMS: Javits Grant Supporting Problem-Based Instruction for Math and Science
Special Populations
45.3 Giftedness and Asperger's Disorder: Sorting Out the Differences
Research and Evaluation
43.3 Assessing Spatial Ability of Undergraduate Students Placed in Gifted Versus in General Programs
Professional Development
23.3 How Can This Child Be Gifted?
Curriculum Studies
9.4 How to Rationalize, Develop, and Support Problem-Based, Interdisciplinary Units
Special Populations
47.3 Supporting Schools with Identification of Underserved Populations: A Team Decision-Making Model for Identification
Professional Development
25.3 Its Incredible! Its Online! Its FREE! Becoming a Professional Development Superhero in 5 Easy Steps
How Can This Student Be Gifted?
Curriculum Studies
5.4 Relevant Enrichment for Gifted Kids: Spatial and Place Analysis
Research and Evaluation
Fostering Student Enthusiasm for Math and Science: Results from a Problem Based Learning Unit
Creativity Division
35.3 Bilingualism and Immersion in Diverse Cultures: Benefits to Creativity
39.3 Is there a valid way to enhance creativity in Chinese classrooms?
Curriculum Studies
Developing Wisdom Using Understanding by Design and Critical Thinking
19.3 Enrichment Clusters in Public Schools Become Reality
Computers and Technology
3.4 Serving Gifted Learners in Online Classes/Virtual Environments
Math and Science
Stalking the Wild Polyhedron
Special Populations
Enhancing Social Grammar/Social Thinking Skills Among Twice-Exceptional Learners
Parent-Community
Why Would You Want to Miss the Prom? Deciding on Early College
Special Schools/Programs
27.3 Predicting Academic Success and Personal Well-being in College Students
Parent-Community
41.3 Parenting Gifted Children: What Parents Need & Want to Know
Special Populations
Building Scaffolds and Bridges: Responsible Teaching for Diversity
Counseling and Guidance
7.4 Helping Your Student Through the High School Maze
Signature Series
2010 Distinguished Scholar: Chokecherries, Gender, The Pyramid, "My Teeming Brain," Poetry, and Creativity
Computers and Technology
NCSSSMST - Fostering Full Participation: Using Technology to Facilitate Group Projects and Individualized Student Learning
Professional Development
NCSSSMST - Teaching "Real" History: Using Simulations & Debates in the History Classroom
NCSSSMST - Interactive Approaches in Teaching World Religions to STEM and Gifted Students
Special Populations
1580W: Response to Intervention and Gifted Education
Parent-Community
1590W: Getting (& Staying) Together: Creating a Support and Advocacy Group That Works
Computers and Technology
790: 1 - The Power of Podcasting: The World IS Your Stage!
800W: Documentaries: Motivating the Tech-Generation to Research & Write
Conceptual Foundations
810: Pyramids of Intervention or Peak Experiences? The Concept of RtI in a Talent Development Model
Curriculum Studies
820: Carpe Diem! Tools for Implementing the Study of Latin for Gifted Students
830: The Power of Socratic Grammar
840: Catalyst Cards and Curriculum Grids: A New Angle on Differentiation
Early Childhood
850: Using Children's Literature Differently..... Supporting the Social/Emotional Learning and Well Being of Primary Aged Children
Parent-Community
860: Parent/Teacher Expectations: Crossing the Chasm
Professional Development
870: Using the National Gifted Teacher Preparation Standards and NAGC Program Standards to Inform Program Practice
Signature Series
880: This We Stand For...Social/Emotional Needs and the Gifted
Global Awareness
11:55 AM to 12:40 PM
Storytelling: Promoting Global Awareness and Appreciation Through Stories from India, China, Oman & Ghana
Ways to Include Global Education K-12
Math and Science
How to Plan and Incorporate Problem Solving for Gifted Students in a Mainstream Classroom
Early Childhood
Young Childrens Designs for Outdoor Learning Spaces
Professional Development
Navigating the 7 Cs with Problem-Based Learning: Applications of Constructivist Theory and Self-Directed Learning
Counseling and Guidance
Building Resiliency Necessary to Overcome Disabilities in Twice-Exceptional Learners
Curriculum Studies
Triple Threat: Using Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence to Enhance Teaching & Learning
Middle Grades
Knowing Your Adolescent Reader: Individualized Assessment in the Mixed-Ability Classroom
Special Schools/Programs
Growing Great Kids - Plant a Small Garden Program That Yields Big Results
Professional Development
Empowering Effective RtI for Gifted Students: A Framework for Professional Development
Parent-Community
Nurturing Creativity at Home: A Guide for Parents and Grandparents
Creativity Division
Synergy Between Creativity and Sustainability: The Creative Recycling Center
Curriculum Studies
Leading and Challenging Great Literary Minds: Strategies for Talented Readers
Special Populations
Experiences of Gifted African American Females: Damned If You Are and Damned If You Aren't
Professional Development
1000: Helping Teachers Develop Classroom Assessment and Rubrics for Gifted Students
Special Schools/Programs
1010: Awakening Youth Leadership Development
Early Childhood
1600W: Creating a Profile: A Process for Identifiying Primary Students for Gifted Programs
Math and Science
1610W: Race to the Top: Developing Mathematically Promising Middle Grades Students
Arts
900: Art Engagement:Overcoming Perfectionism
Counseling and Guidance
920: Building a Global Perspective Through Childrens Literature
930: School-related anxiety of gifted students
Creativity Division
940: Helping students to think critically & creatively: Finding
Curriculum Studies
950: Differentiated Instruction- The "How" Not Just the "What"
960: A Second Look at Primary Sources
Early Childhood
970W: Academic Acceleration: Parents as Early Childhood Advocates
Math and Science
980: Exploring Measurement with Talented Young Mathematicians: Providing Challenge across the Elementary Grades
Middle Grades
990: Mapping Mindsets: Using Dweck's Work to Reinforce Effort and Reflection in the Middle Grades Classroom
Special Populations
1:15 PM to 2:15 PM
A Special Family: A Special Journey: www: What Works and Why?
Curriculum Studies
Limits of Current Literacy Models
Math and Science
Beyond Word Problems Using Rich Math Problems to Reach All Learners
30.3 It is Just That Simple: Simple Machines & WeDo LEGO Robotics
Conceptual Foundations
Trends and Issues in Research on Gifted Education: 1998-2009
Computers and Technology
Higher Level Thinking Skills and Computers: Projects that Integrate and Captivate
Parent-Community
Promoting Excellence Without Fostering Perfectionism.
Creativity Division
Cultivating Creativity: Transforming Instructional Approaches to Encourage Imagination, Invention and Originality
Supporting Creativity with Critical Thinking through Affirmative Judgment
Professional Development
34.3 No Child Left Unchallenged: Designing Professional Development Opportunities to Support Collaborative Services for Advanced Learners
Planning for Successful Schoolwide Differentiation
Research and Evaluation
Success as They See It: African American Students in Advanced Mathematics
Arts
2.4 Poetry in Motion
Special Schools/Programs
Summer Enrichment
Research and Evaluation
School Connectedness: What Gifted High School Students Are Saying About Their Classes, Teachers, and Schools
Conceptual Foundations
4.4 Marginalization of the Gifted: The Dark Side to Intelligence
Special Schools/Programs
Programming Girls for Continued Technological Success
Global Awareness
24.3 The Peace Project: Cultivating a Culture of Peace in the Classroom and the Community
Counseling and Guidance
Schools for Scholars
Curriculum Studies
8.4 Curriculum Compacting: A Practical Differentiation Tool for Gifted Learners
Special Populations
46.3 What Are the Alternatives?
48.3 Creating African American Aviators and Astronauts
Curriculum Studies
20.3 Teaching in the Hands-On Classroom
Professional Development
26.3 Insight and Self-Efficacy toward Meeting the Needs of Gifted Students: Can Preservice Coursework Change Them?
Early Childhood
Unlocking Talents in Special Populations through Primary Thinking Skills
Signature Series
Exploring Ideal Elements of Tests of Ability for Gifted Students
Counseling and Guidance
6.4 Guiding Gifted Adolescents: Anxiety, Personality Chatacteristics, and Mental Ability
Special Populations
Longitudinal Study on South Carolina Gifted Students: Where are they Four Years later?
Counseling and Guidance
The Psychologically Healthy, Fully-Functioning 21st Century Gifted Adolescent
Professional Development
28.3 What Families Say and What Teachers Can Do for Highly Gifted Students
Middle Grades
38.3 Bridging Language Arts and Science in the Gifted Classroom
Parent-Community
42.3 Strategies for culturally responsive family involvement
Curriculum Studies
K-5 Curriculum Stations for Gifted Learners
Creativity Division
36.3 We Remember Mary: The Legacy of the Guardian of Underserved Gifted Students
40.3 Creative Enhancement through Early Entrance to College
Curriculum Studies
22.3 The effects of curricular programs on aspects of critical thinking as applied to writing
Research and Evaluation
44.3 Perceived Barriers and Academic Achievement in Academically Talented Adolescents
Arts
Gifted and the visual arts
Signature Series
Journal Editors Speak: How to Publish Your Work in Gifted Education Journals
Math and Science
NCSSSMST - Biotechnical Engineering: Innovation, Engagement, and Integration in the STEM Classroom
Special Schools/Programs
NCSSSMST - Connections: A Classroom Without Borders
Computers and Technology
1020: Digital Divas: Using Technology, Problem Solving, & Creativity to Change the World
Conceptual Foundations
1030: Gifted Education Goes Hollywood: A Film-Lovers Guide to Our Field's Future
Curriculum Studies
1040: Four-Level Assessment for Advanced Academic Writing
1050: Hasten slowly: Thoughtfully planned and carefully monitored acceleration
1060: Concepts, Rigor, Relevance in 21st Century: Getting to the Heart, the Interaction and the Outcome
Middle Grades
1070W: Making Products Powerful in the Middle Grades
Professional Development
1080: Jammies, Coffee, and Professional Development
Research and Evaluation
1090W: Best Practices in Gifted and Talented Identification: A Fireside Chat Among Researchers and Network Experts
1100: A Mixed-Methods Comparison Of Vocational And Identified Gifted Adolescents On The Overexcitability Questionnaire.
Signature Series
1120: The Peak in the Middle: Perspectives on Mathematically Promising Middle School Students
Special Populations
1130: Case Studies in Twice Exceptionality: Helping These Learners Survive and Thrive in Elementary Gifted Classrooms
Parent-Community
1620W: Voices from Gifted Students: Helping Teachers and Parents Understand Differentiated Curriculum and Instruction
Middle Grades
2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Growing Good Writers: Twelve Lessons for Reflective Wordsmiths and Their Teachers
Creativity Division
The Busy Teacher's Guide to Building a Stress-Free Creative Writing Club
Math and Science
31.4 The Survey Toolkit: Integrated Curriculum Research Projects
Parent-Community
Working with Parents to Support Gifted Education
"Eduspeak": Mastering the foreign language of educators.
Special Populations
Effects of a Therapeutic Adventure on Gifted Teens with Asperger's Syndrome
Global Awareness
Stones to Schools: A Conversation about Positive Social Action
Computers and Technology
Digital Storytelling: A Creative Option for High School Students
Research and Evaluation
Gifted Students' Perceptions of Their Interpersonal Competence and Peer Relationships
Early Childhood
The Changing Weather: Developing a Conceptual Understanding of Weather Phenomena in Young Children
Math and Science
33.4 Real-world writing, real-world math
Global Awareness
WORLDLY WISE: International Trends, Practices and Advocacy (The World Council for Gifted and Talented Children).
Professional Development
Learning Centers: The
Special Schools/Programs
29.4 Changing Children's Lives: How an Elementary STEM Magnet School is Making the Difference for Students
Early Childhood
Make Literature Come Alive In Your Early Childhood Classroom
Curriculum Studies
Writing a Winning Curriculum: Guidelines for Curriculum Studies Competition
Counseling and Guidance
The Effects of Achievement Goal Orientation and Coping Strategies on Suicidal Ideation
Creativity Division
Defining Creativity
Global Awareness
19.4 Gifted & Talented Minority Students: Understanding and Helping Underserved & Underrepresented
Counseling and Guidance
One-On-One with SEM-R: How An Instructional Model Affects the Emotional Lives of Bright Students
Curriculum Studies
13.4 Credit Flexibility - Shifting from Seat Time to Performance
15.4 Gifted English Language Learners Achieve with Differentiation
Special Populations
43.4 Minding the Gap: Helping Gifted Resources Stretch across Rural Areas
Math and Science
Do Gender Differences in Math and Science Persist and How Concerned Should We Be?
Special Populations
45.4 Black Students Views of the Acting White Phenomenon in the Obama Era
47.4 Ohio's Gifted: Studying Black and White Achievement
Curriculum Studies
21.4 Schoolwide Enrichment Model in an Achievement-oriented Education Environment: An Empirical Analysis of Korean Students
Professional Development
23.4 Program Evaluation as a Form of Professional Development
Special Schools/Programs
27.4 A cross-cultural evaluation of a summer residential program for Indian and U.S. talented students.
Parent-Community
41.1 Tapping into Parent Potential
Counseling and Guidance
11.4 Bibliotherapy for gifted and talented perfectionists:Perfectionism,What's Bad About Being Too Good?
Creativity Division
39.4 Creativity in the Movies
Professional Development
25.4 New Horizons for Learning - Creating Virtual Roundtables for Collaboration between Educators and Researchers
Middle Grades
37.4 Science in Action: How Middle School Students are Changing Their World Through STEM Service-Learning Projects
Special Populations
35.4 Developing Talent in At-risk Adolescent Girls Using a Mentoring Model
Curriculum Studies
17.4 Creativity, Culture, and Content Make Good Soup
Special Schools/Programs
The Scholar Identity Model: GT Coordinators & Teachers working with young Black males
Computers and Technology
NCSSSMST - Teaching Engineering Courses in the High School Setting
1140: Using Technology to Support Differentiation
1150: Web-Based Social Networking Tools for Advocacy, Professional Development, and Communications
Curriculum Studies
1160: Challenging Talented Readers (grades 2-8)
1170W: Challenging Gifted Learners in Computational Mathematics
Middle Grades
1180: Not like an Egg on Teflon: Making Curriculum Change Stick
Parent-Community
1190: 21st century parenting: optimal mind-body practices to fully support the child and the gifts
1200W: The Problem With Praise: Encouraging Effort and Motivation in Children
Professional Development
1210: Professsional Development Model: Parents and Professionals Working Together
1220: Persuading Instructors of Pre-service Teachers to Include Gifted Education
Research and Evaluation
1230: Implementation of a STEM Project: Teachers' Initial Perceptions, Instructional Behaviors, and Knowledge of Science Content
1240: A 15-year Qualitative Case Study of Trauma and Giftedness: The Subject 's Research Experience
Signature Series
1250: The Torrance Center: Creativity Past, Present, and Future
Special Populations
1630W: Assessing, Identifying, and Servicing Low-Income, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Gifted Students: Gifted 101
Signature Series
890: Malleable Minds: Translating Insights from the Behavioral and Social Sciences to Gifted Education
Global Awareness
3:45 PM to 4:45 PM
Towards the Development of World-Class Schools: Educating the Global Citizen for 2020
Math and Science
30.4 Finding Math in Music
Model Eliciting Activities: A Challenging and Effective Mathematical Tool
Creativity Division
Voices of the Children
Computers and Technology
Technology: A Powerful Tool to Increase Rigor in Mathematics
Counseling and Guidance
Twice Different: meeting at the intersection of Gifted and GLBT.
Curriculum Studies
Leading the Way to the Future Using the Tools of a Futurist
Math and Science
32.4 Managing Math Contests in the Regular Classroom
Special Schools/Programs
34.4: A Comprehensive College Planning Program at a Governor's School for Science and Technology
Professional Development
Instructional Coaching within Gifted Education: Building Capacity around Differentiated Instruction
Normalizing Data for Identification of GIfted Students
Conceptual Foundations
10.4 Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development in the Context of Early Advancement
Global Awareness
18.4 Once Upon a Time: Creating Digital Stories with Students
Early Childhood
How High Can a Grasshopper Jump? Challenging Children Mathematically in Early Childhood Education
Parent-Community
The Gifted Education Advisory Committee: Advocating for Gifted Learners Through Data-Informed Reporting
Conceptual Foundations
What contributes to talent development in eminent women?
Curriculum Studies
20.4 Strategies for Working with Twice-Exceptional Students
Counseling and Guidance
Toward a New Science of Education, Counseling and Guidance
Curriculum Studies
14.4 Written Education Plans for Gifted Students
Professional Development
Building a BRIDGE Between Gifted and General Education: An Effective Consultation and Differentiation Training Program
Special Populations
44.4 Curriculum Engineering: Short-circuiting exclusivity in gifted education
46.4 Under-identification of African American gifted students with dual exceptionalities
48.4 New Opportunities and Challenges: Supporting Gifted Students with Asperger's in Universities and University-Based Special Programs
Creativity Division
40.4 Building Communities for a 21st Century Economy: Its never too early or too late
Special Schools/Programs
22.4 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) A Successful Match for Gifted High School Learners
Global Awareness
16.4 Creating a comprehensive and economic gifted social studies curriculum that utilizes connections to your location
Research and Evaluation
42.4 Inservice/Preservice Teacher attitudes, knowledge, & comfort levels toward inclusion of gifted & twice exceptional students
Counseling and Guidance
12.4 Cultivating Capacity for Teaming
Professional Development
26.4 The Effectiveness of Professional Development Online Among Educators in Gifted Education.
Middle Grades
38.4 Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll: Matching Middle Grades Talented Readers with Books
Conceptual Foundations
A Tipping Point for Talent?
Professional Development
28.4 Promoting professional communication among the stakeholders in gifted education
Signature Series
Getting Involved: Leadership Development in NAGC
Research and Evaluation
A Model of Academic Self-Concept: Perceived Difficulty and Social Comparison Among Academically Accelerated Secondary School Students
Computers and Technology
1260: Cloud Computing: A Free Technology Option to Promote Collaborative Learning
Creativity Division
1270W: Infusing creativity into your content areas: Its easier than you think!
Curriculum Studies
1280: Ability and student outcomes in inquiry classes: Teachers perspectives
Math and Science
1290: The Mother of Invention: Involving Upper Elementary Students in the Invention Process
Middle Grades
1300W: Identifying and Retaining Underserved Populations: Making the Most of Middle School Years
Professional Development
1310: The Online Bargain Basement takes on Professional Development
Research and Evaluation
1330: Prevalence and Correlates of Perfectionism in International Baccalaureate Students
Signature Series
1340: The Frasier Scholars Program: Lessons Applied to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Gifted Students
Special Populations
1350: President Obama's Role Model Effects on Recruitment and Retention of Gifted Black Students
1360: The Schoolwide Cluster Grouping Model: Embracing Diversity and Expanding Gifted Services During Lean Financial Times
Parent-Community
1640W: Classical Homeschooling for Gifted Children
NAGC
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
1370W: E.Paul Torrance Lecture: The Gifted Empire Strikes Back: What Role does Gifted Education Play in the 21st Century?
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Special Schools/Programs
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
Educational Eden : Student and Parent Perspectives on life in a Gifted Magnet School
Arts
Maestro! Maestro! Using Technology to Assist Gifted Children's Musical Development
Global Awareness
The Biology of Global Awareness
Computers and Technology
iCreate: Developing Creativity with Interactive Web 2.0 Tools
Middle Grades
Connecting 21st Century Skills with Active Engagement Strategies for Middle Learners
Early Childhood
Extreme Classroom Makeover: Primary Classroom Edition
Conceptual Foundations
1380: Looking Back forty-four years: Did it Make a Difference?
Counseling and Guidance
1390: Social-Emotional Underpinnings of Academic Achievement (and Underachievement)
Creativity Division
1400: Nurturing Creativity in Young Gifted Children
Curriculum Studies
1410: The Parallel Curriculum Model and 21st Century Skills
Math and Science
1430: A Talent Development Perspective on Educating Mathematically Gifted Students
Parent-Community
1440: Interacting with the Sensitive Gifted Child: What You Say Matters
Professional Development
1450: Quality Professional Development: A Tool for Planning and Evaluation
Research and Evaluation
1460: Setting a Research Agenda in Gifted Education for the Next Decade (and Beyond)
Special Populations
1470: Get them ALL Thinking: Critical Reasoning for the 21st Century
Special Schools/Programs
8:45 AM to 9:45 AM
Uniting Talent and Passion
Professional Development
Highly Accomplished: Achieving National Board Certification by Tapping what Gifted Teachers Know and Do
Special Populations
Recruiting and Retaining Gifted African American Male Students: Perspectives from Experts in the Field
Creativity Division
Essential Partners For Teaching 21st Century Skills: Creative Teaching and Teaching Creativity
Curriculum Studies
Mathematics Curriculum Grounded in Models of Gifted Education: Strategies to Challenge All Learners
Parent-Community
"Everybody Needs an Edna," And Other Advice From Mrs. Incredible
Arts
Unfolding Wings: The Role of Arts In Growing Up Gifted
Computers and Technology
1480: SPEED GEEKING 2.0
Conceptual Foundations
1490: Dogmatism and Gifted Education: How Shortsighted, Narrow-Minded Thinking Can Warp and Stunt High Ability
Counseling and Guidance
1500: Gifted psychology in the 21st century: Integral Practice for the GIfted
Early Childhood
1510: A Multi-Tiered Approach for Recognizing and Responding to Young Children of Promise
Global Awareness
1520: Shining a Light on Intolerance: The Power of Music, Books, Films, and Images
Math and Science
1530: Children with Spatial Strengths: Overlooked Engineers, Mathematicians, and Scientists
Middle Grades
1540: Teaching Creatively, Teaching for Creativity: Strategies for Middle School Classrooms
Research and Evaluation
1550: Unanswered questions in gifted education: A panel discussion with senior scholars
NAGC
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
1560: General Session: Ron Clark
