August 3, 2001 UNT Inhouse publications: UNT offers gifted education staff day

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UNT offers gifted education staff day

UNT's College of Education will host the second annual Gifted Education Staff Development Day for teachers, counselors and administrators from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 10 in the Lyceum of the University Union.

The staff development workshop is designed to help teachers of gifted students fulfill 30 hours of training requirements. It also allows counselors and administrators to complete a one-time requirement or six additional hours of annual gifted and talented update credit.

The workshop will feature keynote speaker Ann Wink, director of elementary gifted education in the Texas Education Agency's Division of Advanced Academic Services. Wink has more than 25 years' experience working in the field of gifted education. She has served as a teacher of the gifted, as a gifted program coordinator and as associate director of the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.

Breakout sessions featuring several gifted education experts, including some UNT faculty members, will focus on current gifted and talented education issues. Topics will include similarities and differences in gifted and talented children and children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder children; attributes of a teacher of the gifted; adapting of curriculum to meet the needs of individual students; funding of innovative programs for gifted students; and identification of gifted and talented learners.

"We're hoping to give teachers quality examples of the types of research and activities we're conducting in gifted education," says Tandra Tyler-Wood, associate professor of technology and cognition.

The cost of the Gifted Education Staff Development Day is $50 per person, which includes lunch and snacks during breaks. A certificate of attendance will be provided at the end of the day. The last day to register for the workshop is Aug. 3.

For workshop registration, call conference manager Shirley White at 565-3628 or send e-mail to shirley@scs.cmm.unt.edu. For more information about the workshop content or gifted education at UNT, contact Mike Sayler, associate professor of technology and cognition, at 565-4699 or Wood at 565-2959, or visit www.coe.unt.edu/gifted.