An Acceleration Needs-Assessment and Questioning Techniques
Rising Above the Invisible Ceiling
by Anne Shadwick
December 18, 2007
Title: An
Acceleration Needs-Assessment and Questioning Techniques--Rising
Above the Invisible Ceiling
Topic Codes: Curriculum; Instruction; Differentiation
Date: July 14
Time: 8:30a.m.-4:15p.m
Location:
Southwest Center
Audience: PK-12 Teachers, Gifted Coordinators & Teachers,
Administrators, Curriculum Coordinators, School Counselors,
Parents
Facilitator: Linda Knoll
Member Fee: $30
Non-Member Fee: $80
Description: "The Acceleration Needs-Assessment Instrument"
created to successfully answer the questions, "When is acceleration
intervention appropriate for highly capable students, Who would
benefit, and What are the long-term effects?" This assessment tool
is based on 15 years of collected data on local accelerated
identified gifted students from schools in Southeast Kansas and is
in line with the latest research findings from "A Nation
Deceived-How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students."
Thinking is developed as a result of probing and stimulating
questions. The second half of this workshop will provide
instruction in the art of using questioning techniques for
differentiation and other strategies to develop understanding and
higher order thinking skills to improve student learning and
assessment scores. NEW
An Acceleration Needs-Assessment and Questioning Techniques
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