​​The New Jersey Association for Gifted Children (NJAGC) invites you to join us at the NJEA Convention scheduled for Thursday, November 9 and Friday, November 10, 2017, in Atlantic City.
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The NJAGC is sponsoring 10 workshops all of which focus on gifted education.  For the full schedule of our workshops, please refer to the full-page article in the Fall  issue of Promise.

Please be sure to invite your friends and colleagues to attend the workshops and get some wonderful tips to take back to your classrooms.  
​Also, be sure to visit us on the convention floor at the NJAGC booth located in the Affiliate Groups Section on the main floor of the convention center.
  • Deep End Math:  Accelerating Instruction for High Achieving Elementary Students (Kristin Baker) What are we doing for the kids who DO get it?  Learn pedagogically-sound strategies for both in-class differentiation and accelerated replacement instruction, drawing on 15 years of successful practice. 
  • Game Design (Pavithra Lakshminarayan)  A Rover traverses the surface of Mars.  Every time it crosses plant/life it beeps.  Imagine this is a science project on Life In Mars that children actually build themselves. 
  • Phenomenon-Based Learning For Gifted Learners (Pavithra Lakshminarayan) Phenomenon-based learning is an integrated method of learning that not only offers teachers an opportunity to assess students’ skill levels in various disciplines, but also to personalize content accordingly. 
  • Powerful Strategies to Enhance the Learning of Gifted Students (Nathan Levy) Explore numerous ways to reach gifted learners in challenging ways.  Leave with new strategies to help pupils become better creative and critical thinkers.  Bring your thinking caps and funny bones. 
  • Practical Ideas for Improving Critical Thinking and Writing (Nathan Levy) Learn time-saving strategies and creative ideas to assist students in developing fluency of writing and thinking.  Writing and critical thinking activities will be shared in this engaging, interactive presentation. 
  • Making Metric Meaningful for the Gifted, Exceptional. and Challenged Learner (Donna Monck and Jack Wollman)  5-K races, liters, and milligrams.  Metric measurement is everywhere.  Learn hands-on methods to teach and “see” the metric system.  Meet standards, have fun, experience success.  Handouts and materials provided. 
  • Activating Personalized Learning with Twice-Exceptional Students ( Janis Cameron) Practical tools and strategies that provide a personalized learning approach for the twice-exceptional student while continuing to support the whole class within an educational setting. 
  • It’s H.O. T. (Higher Order Thinking Skills) in the Classroom (Constance Drakeobrien)  This workshop will include various Higher Order Thinking (H.O.T) strategies, provide H.O.T. resources and demonstrate H.O.T lesson tips and tricks.  Relevant for all grade levels and subjects. 
  • Making Math Meaningful for All:  Gifted, Challenged,  and Exceptional Learners (Donna Monck and Jack Wollman)  Explore methods to teach math conceptually.  Concepts (fractions, measurement, perimeter, area) come alive through “hands-on” real life application and standards-based objectives.  Engage all students.  Experience success.  Have fun! 
  • Mindfulness for Stressed Out Students and Teachers ( Rebecca McLelland-Crawley)  Learn strategies to help promote mindfulness among our stressed students based on the long-term project of middle school gifted students.

Did you know that there is an
Accelerated Google Boot Camp at the 2017 NJEA Convention?
 To register - follow the link

On Thursday, November 9, 2017

Date / Time/Rooms
Title
Presenter/s
Thursday
​11/9/17  11:30-1:00 Room 414
Deep End Math:  Accelerating For High Achieving Elementary Students
​Kristin Baker
Thursday
​11/9/17  11:30-1:00 Room 314
Game Design
​Pavithra Lakshminarayan
Thursday
​11/9/17  1:30-3:00 Room 314
Phenomenon-Based Learning For Gifted Learners
​Pavithra Lakshminarayan
Thursday  
​11/9/17  1:30-3:00 Room 315
Powerful Strategies To Enhance The Learning of Gifted Students
​Nathan Levy
Thursday 
​11/9/17   3:30-5:00 Room 315
Practical Ideas For Improving Critical Thinking and Writing
​Nathan Levy

On Friday, November 10, 2017

Date / Time/Rooms
Title
Presenter/s
Friday  
​11/10/17  9:30-11 Room 409
Making Math Meaningful For All: Gifted, Challenged, Exceptional Learners
​Donna Monck & Jack Wollman
Friday
​11/10/17  1:00-2:30 Room 321
Activating  Personalized Learning With Twice Exceptional Students
​Janis P. Cameron
Friday
​11/10/17  1:00-2:30 Room 403
It’s H. O. T.
(High Order Thinking)
​Skills In The Classroom
​Constance S. Drakeobrien
Friday
​11/10/17 3:00-4:30 Room 409
Making Metric Meaningful For The Gifted, Exceptional, and Challenged Learner
​Donna Monck & Jack Wollman
Friday
​11/10/17 3:00-4:30 Room 312
Mindfulness For Stressed Out Students and Teachers
​Rebecca A. McLelland-Crawley