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DISCOVER! 2008 Program Overview

 

  

Time

Monday 6/23

Tuesday 6/24

Wednesday 6/25

Thursday 6/26

8:00 – 9:00

Registration/

Continental Breakfast

 

Morning Excursions (TBA)

1. Bug Barn

2. Envision Center

3. Neil Armstrong Hall of     Engineering

 

Discover Workshops

Turpin & Shepson:  Bugging your Students with Books

Strutz:  Compacting

Kolloff:  Might Amanda Frankenstein or Archibald Frisbie join the mysterious Benedict Society?Simms: GPS/Geocaching

Peters: Measurement

Dixon:  Perfectionism

Vaughn:  Strategies for teaching high ability students in regular classrooms

Gramberg:  Project-based Math 

8:30 – 9:30

Keynote – Richard Cash

“Reflections From the Field”

 

9:45 – 12:00

Institute Workshops

 

33. Math

34. Language Arts

35. Administration

36. Personal Talent

37. Technology

38. Arts

39. Science

40. Social-Emotional

8:30 – 9:45

Keynote – Marcia Gentry

“Equitable Identification and Programming”

Keynote – Terry Neu

“Bullying”

9:45 – 10:15

Break

10:15 – 11:45

Intensive #1

1. Designing Rigorous and Complex Curriculum for All Learners - Cash

2. Purdue Three-Stage Model – Dixon

3. Schoolwide Enrichment Model Reading (SEM-R) – Fogarty

4. Programming and Identification for Elementary Gifted Students – Vaughn

5. Reading and Writing With Talented Students – Kolloff

6. Inquiriy-Based Learning Meets Technology – Riehle & Nelson

7. Demystifying and Responding to the Social and Emotional Concerns of Gifted Students – Peterson

8. Meeting the Needs of Gifted English Language Learners – Pereira

9. Insects in the Classroom – Turpin

10. Engineering in the Classroom – R. Mann

11. Creativity in Math is not an Oxymoron – E. Mann

11:45 – 1:00

Lunch

 

 

 

Goodbye and safe travels

1:30 – 3:00

Intensive #2

12. Differentiation as Easy as QVC! – Donaldson

13. Twice Exceptional Students: Identification and Programming – Gates

14. Total School Cluster Grouping – Gentry

15. Secondary Mentorship Development – Palmer

16. Dabrowski’s Theory – Mendaglio

17. Using a Multiple Intelligence Approach to Science– Neu

18. Digital Technology: Classroom Applications – Simms

19. Basic Geometry Through Unit Origami – Bula

20. Meeting The Needs of Visual Spatial Learners R. Mann

21. Improv and Other Games: Building Creativity in the Classroom – Lacina

3:00 – 3:30

Break

3:30 – 5:00

Intensive #3

22.  Engineering in the Elementary Classroom - Mann & Strutz

23. Brain-Based Learning: Applications for the Adolescent Classroom – Cash

24. AP and More – Dixon

25. Tiered Assignments: The Nitty Gritty – Fogarty

26. Beyond Silverstein and Prelutsky: Discovering the Joy of Poetry – Kolloff

27. What Do Gifted Boys Need? – Neu

28. Arts Integration: Garage Band meets Language Arts – Lacina

29. Counseling gifted children, adolescents and adults using Integral Practice and Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration Jackson

30. Indiana Code for High Ability Students 101 MacDougall & Gentry

5:00 – 6:30

Dinner

6:00 Farewell Dinner

 

 

7:00 Keynote – Tom Turpin

“The Bug and I: Ultimate Team Teaching”

7:00 – 8:15

PU Forum – What we know and what we can do to meet your students’ needs

Crackerbarrel

Discussion – Village Coffee House

After Hours

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