Professional Development

IEA can work with educators to develop a plan that helps your gifted students excel.

Our knowledgeable staff provides professional development workshops, along with site visits to observe your program. We will work with you to develop a customized, tailored approach that benefits everyone involved. We will also provide you with the latest research, the best emerging practices, and practical information you can use on day one.

Workshops

Professional Development workshops are carefully designed around the diverse needs of your students. IEA’s staff of trained professionals can provide workshops for teachers, principals, and other school and/or district staff members on how to meet the needs of their gifted and twice exceptional population.

Professional Development workshops take place on or off school sites and range from one day to one week in length. All workshops are designed on an individual basis, and content may include but is not limited to the following:

  • Reframing Challenges: Strategies for Working with 2e Students
  • Feeling Welcome: Cultivating an Environment of Belonging for 2e Students
  • Characteristics and Identification of Gifted and Twice Exceptional Children
  • Overexcitabilities, Intensities, and Social-Emotional Needs of Gifted Students
  • Motivating the Underachieving Gifted Student
  • Social and Emotional Needs
  • Differentiated Instruction
  • Classroom Strategies
  • Educational Considerations for the Gifted Child

In addition to workshops, you can choose to have IEA staff come to your school for a site visit and/or observations ahead of time to help shape the workshop(s) to the specific needs of your population. IEA provides all necessary materials and supplemental readings.

Contact IEA for more information about bringing IEA’s professional development services to your school.

Upcoming Workshops

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SYSTEM-WIDE SOLUTIONS

IEA also consults with schools and districts to help create, implement, or update programs for gifted students. The fee schedule for school and district training seminars is determined on a case-by-case basis.

Benefits:

  • Supports school and school districts as they design and implement gifted programs
  • Affords teachers and administrators an understanding of the unique needs of gifted students and provides these professionals with the tools they need to appropriately challenge, support, and foster gifted students’ love of learning
  • Early identification and intervention of gifted students
  • National state and local policies affecting gifted education
  • Best practices in teaching gifted students in the classroom
  • The role of supplemental programs for gifted students
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