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Professional Development Opportunities

Yearly conferences:

NAGC  - National Association for Gifted and Talented Children  www.nagc.org

MEGAT- Maine Educators of the Gifted and Talented www.MEGAT.org

NECGT- New England Conference for the Gifted and Talented – www.necgt.org

Courses:

Check annual listing through the Professional Development Center at the University of Southern Maine 207-780-5055 http://usm.maine.edu/outreach/

Check annual listing through the University of Maine Orono campus - Contact Phyllis Thibodeau at (207)581-2433.

Check annual listing through University of Maine Farmington campus http://outreach.umf.maine.edu/

Check annual listings at the MEGAT website www.megat.org

Workshops:

Annual mentoring workshop for first and second year teachers of the gifted and talented sponsored through the

Maine Department of Education - 10/18 or 10/22

Resources: Visual and Performing Arts:

 

Resources: Common Book Titles in Gifted Education 

A Guide to State Policies in Gifted Education CD-ROM.  Author: Pamela R. Clinkenbeard, Penny Britton Kolloff, and E. Wayne Lord

Aiming For Excellence: Annotations to the NAGC Pre-K-Grade 12 Gifted Program Standards.  Author: Landrum, Callahan, & Shaklee (Eds.)

Alternative Assessments for Identifying Gifted and Talented  Students.  Author: VanTassel-Baska, Joyce Ed.D

Best Practices in Gifted Education: An Evidence-Based Guide.  Author: Robinson, A., Shore, B., & Enersen, D.

Critical Issues and Practices in Gifted Education: What the Research Says.  Author: Carolyn M. Callahan, Ph.D., Jonathan Plucker, Ph.D.

Educating Gifted Students in Middle School . Author: S. Rakow

Identifying Gifted Students: A Practical Guide.  Author Susan K. Johnsen

Investigating Creativity in Youth Research and Methods.  Author: Fishkin, Cramond, Olszewski-Kubilius (Eds.)

Mile Marker Series.  Publisher: National Association for Gifted Children

Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults .  Author: J. Webb, E. Amend, N. Webb, J. Goerss, P. Beljan, & F. R. Olenchak

NAGC Gifted Program Standards in Action.  Author: Elizabeth Pinkney Coyne, Ph.D. (ed.)

Patterns and Profiles of Promising Learners From Poverty.  Author: VanTassel-Baska, Joyce Ed.D.

Programs and Services for Gifted Secondary Students.  Author Felicia A. Dixon

Re-Forming Gifted Education: Matching the Program to the Child.  Author K. Rogers

Social-Emotional Curriculum with Gifted Students.   Author: VanTassel-Baska, Joyve Ed.D

Staff Development: The Key To Effective Gifted Education Programs.  Edited by Peggy Dettmar, Ph.D., and Mary Landrum, Ph.D.

Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom Book & CD-ROM.  Author Susan Weinbrenner.

The Parallel Curriculum A Design to Develop Learner Potential and Challenge Advanced Learners Second Edition.  Author: Tomlinson, Kaplan, Renzulli, Purcell, Leppien, Burns, Strickland, Imbeau

The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children. Edited by M. Neihart, S. Reis, N. Robinson & S. Moon.

Designing and Utilizing Evaluation for Gifted Program Improvement. Edited by J. Van Tassel-Baska & A. X. Feng

A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students. The Templeton National Report on Acceleration. www.accelerationinstitute.org/nation_deceived/

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