This event has ended!
View current events hosted by Individual Differences in Learning Association
What Works and Why: Unmasking students' strengths through innovative learning experiencesThursday, November 20, 2008 at 8:00 AM - Friday, November 21, 2008 at 4:00 PM (ET)Clarksville, MD |
|
Event Details
On-Site Registration still available What Works and Why Unmasking student strengths through innovative learning experiences
About the Conference | Schedule | Hotels and Lodging |Speakers
November 20 & 21, 2008
The Gathering Place
6120 Day Long Lane
Clarksville, Maryland 21029
brought to you by:
IDL of Howard County, MD together with Montgomery County's GT/LD Network, Anne Arundel County's Twice Exceptional Advisory Network, & Prince George's County's PG-TAG's Gifted with Special Learning Needs Committee.
National and local experts, and student panels will explore what works for students perceived as underachieving, unmotivated and unengaged learners at this 2-day conference. Presenters will focus on practical strategies for engaging and energizing ALL students through rich, "hands-on," multi-sensory, real-world profession-oriented, and strength-based instruction, integrating the arts and technology across the curriculum. This interdisciplinary conference will have several sessions that emphasize issues for students who don't fit the 'typical' student mold in a variety of ways, including twice exceptional students and others who learn differently. We welcome teachers, parents, psychologists, students, mentors, administrators and all those who want to learn more about what works (and why) for bright, underachieving students. Our main goal is to help a variety of educational professionals find new ways to "engage, motivate, and raise the self-esteem" of ALL learners to increase their ability to succeed.
Continuing Education credits for professionals for an additional fee available through PESI. Please indicate your interest when registering above.
Who are twice exceptional students?
- Learn to recognize and address the strengths of exceptional learners
- Focus on abilities rather than disabilities
- Learn to creatively deliver curriculum content and spark students innate love of learning
- Learn strategies to improve social/emotional well-being and motivation
- Integrate instruction by building relationships across disciplines, e.g., arts, technology, science & math
- Connect learning to "real world experiences" and professions
When & Where
The Gathering Place
6120 Day Long Lane
Clarksville,
MD 21029
Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 8:00 AM - Friday, November 21, 2008 at 4:00 PM (ET)
Add to my calendar
Hosted By
Individual Differences in Learning Association
IDL, Individual Differences in Learning Association Inc., is a parent-led, non-profit organization, promoting awareness, understanding and state-of-the art, research-based teaching strategies that supports ALL kinds of learners.
Our purpose is to provide information, training and support for teachers, students, parents and others concerned with the education, health and social and emotional well being of twice exceptional and other different learners. Other terms to describe this target group includes gifted different learner, highly able underachiever, or gifted, learning disabled.
Our main focus for the WWW (What Works and Why) November ‘08 conference is to provide school administration and school staff with research-based teaching models that focus on transmitting the curriculum in innovative ways, using visual, mechanical, arts-based and/or kinesthetic learning environments, strategies that work for students who are attuned to such modalities of learning. Importantly, our future depends on innovation in areas such as design, linking arts with technology, sciences, ability to synthesize ideas from diverse disciplines, social /leadership skills, cognitive and computer sciences, and technology.
‘Out of the box’ thinking must be encouraged and we know is best facilitated through learning environments that may be more challenging to foster (e.g., multi-sensory, multi-cultural, arts and theater-based, technology-based and real-world oriented). “Hands-on”, multi-modal and student-centered learning experiences are good practice for all students but most especially twice exceptional or 2E students whose considerable talents may go overlooked when evaluation is solely based in one modality (e.g., verbal or written).
By focusing on teaching students with specific learning challenges and creating a climate that encourages relationship-building between students and teachers, we hope to enhance and motivate ALL students’ performance by encouraging a facilitative and positive learning environment.