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These are
examples of the engaging and practical workshops that Dr.
Kingore is frequently requested to present. Well regarded
in the educational community both nationally and
internationally, Dr. Kingore customizes training activities
and workshops based on specific needs and requests.
For more information about scheduling Dr. Kingore,
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KEYNOTES
Differentiation:
Simplified, Realistic, and Effective
Educators increase expertise in differentiating instruction
and prioritize a sequence for increasing differentiation in
mixed-ability classrooms.
Nurturing High-Achievers,
Gifted Learners, and Creative Thinkers
Educators examine a three-way comparison of similarities and
differences among high achievers, gifted learners, and
creative thinkers and then select from research-based
techniques that maximize the achievement potential of
each.
Promoting Rigor and
Engagement
Promote greater rigor to reach higher achievement. In this
practical presentation, educators learn to clearly define
rigor and integrate the elements of rigor into engaging
instruction. Explore strategies and tools to use every day
to raise the level of rigor in classrooms.
Ready-to-Use Strategies
to Differentiate Instruction
This humorous and practical session emphasizes
research-based strategies that work with multiple topics and
incorporate targeted concepts and skills so less intensive
teacher preparation results in long-term learning and higher
student achievement.
The Rights and
Responsibilities of Gifted Learners When Life-long Learning
is the Goal
Through humor and practical applications, Dr. Kingore
translates research and best practices from the past and
present into a vision of the most promising practices for
the future of gifted education. Explore a three-way
comparison of the rights, responsibilities, and
instructional needs of advanced and gifted learners.
BREAKOUTS
OR ALL-DAY SESSIONS
Assessing Achievement,
Tiering Instruction: Grades K-8
Research-based decisions for tiering instruction and
assessing achievement minimize preparation intensity and
maximize high-level learning opportunities. This session
explores practical strategies that enable tiered instruction
and assessment to work in tandem to promote advanced
achievement. The modeled applications enable teachers to
tier instruction to match student capabilities and
seamlessly incorporate assessment techniques.
Differentiating
Instruction for Gifted Students in Mixed-Ability
Classrooms: Grades
K-8
This session matches differentiation strategies to the
learning needs of advanced students and models specific
techniques to lift students' accomplishments through
abstract thinking, complexity, and content depth. The
techniques require less intensive teacher preparation and
simplify management issues as they develop advanced
students' independence and responsibility for continued
learning.
Differentiation:
Simplified, Realistic, and Effective: Grades K-12
This practical session demonstrates a realistic approach
to differentiation that promotes students' achievement with
less intensive time and labor for teachers. Educators
increase expertise in differentiation strategies as they
learn to prioritize a sequence for implementing
differentiation. Simple-to-use strategies, activities, and
materials are modeled that challenge students, increase
active participation, document state learning standards, and
transfer to multiple content areas.
Effective Ways to
Differentiate instruction without Overwhelming Educators:
Grades K-8
Through humor and practical applications, Dr. Kingore
translates achievement research into more than 40 effective
strategies and learning experiences for participants to
select that differentiate instruction in mixed-ability
classrooms. The emphasis is on constructing effective
learning environments and implementing learning experiences
that work with multiple topics and expand targeted concepts
and skills to promote continuous learning for all
students.
High-level Thinking for
Long-Term Learning: Grades K-8
Students learn and retain information best when they are
actively involved in high-level, complex thinking. Through
research-based applications, participants select from
learning experiences that promote concept-based instruction,
increase content and process complexity, emphasize student
responsibility for learning, and extend learning beyond
basic standards and skills. The emphasis is on
simple-to-implement strategies, visual tools, effective
resources, and tiered instruction to minimize teacher
preparation.
Identifying Gifted
Potential Through Differentiated Instruction: Grades K-6
Developmentally appropriate identification of children
and under-represented populations is a significant issue.
This session engages participants in differentiated
strategies, the Kingore Observation Inventory (KOI), and
planned experiences to provide ongoing high-level learning
opportunities for all students and identify gifted
potential. Participants learn current research results,
procedures, and applications from a three-year study using
these procedures that significantly increased gifted
representation of children of diversity and low SES in
high-poverty districts. Participants engage in
newly-developed planned experiences eliciting gifted
behaviors, partake in an identification simulation,
interpret data with a rubric, and experience communicating
results with parents.
Implementing High-Order
Thinking Strategies: Grades K-12
Engaging and effective high-order thinking strategies are
research-based, elevate achievement, integrate with learning
standards, and facilitate the differentiation of
instruction. This fast-paced session is a response to
teachers' requests for simple-to-implement strategies that
promote long-term learning using graphic organizers, active
engagement, and tiered thinking prompts to apply learning
standards in multiple contents and grade levels.
Just What I Need!
Learning Experiences with Multiple
Applications: Grades
K-8
Save instruction time, incorporate standards, and
increase student achievement using learning experiences with
multiple applications. This practical session invites
participants to select from a repertoire of modeled
strategies and activities that encourage student excellence
while minimizing teachers' preparation time. Dr. Kingore
demonstrates techniques for high-order thinking, advanced
vocabulary development, and the integration of content with
standards and skills at and beyond grade level.
Reaching All Learners:
Making Differentiation Work, Grades K-8
The reality is that when students represent different levels
of readiness, different levels of instruction are needed. In
this practical session of research-based strategies,
teachers engage in learning experiences and support systems
that vary lessons for students with fewer skills, vary
lessons to increase challenge, and more efficiently provide
product options to reach diverse learners. Dr. Kingore
models successful guidelines to effectively manage the
learning environment and a teaching palette of multiple
strategies and activities for differentiating
instruction.
Recognizing and Nurturing
Gifted Potential: Grades
K-8
This session focuses on features of the Kingore
Observation Inventory (KOI) that guide identification of
gifted potential by 1) clarifying learning patterns to
observe over time, 2) providing ongoing high-level learning
opportunities for all students to reveal potentials, and 3)
initiating a standard that documents teachers' insights
about their students. The system enables teachers to
immediately initiate appropriate differentiation and
effectively communicate with parents.
Rigor and Engagement for
Growing Minds: Grades K-6:
Grades K-8
In this practical session, participants experience a
wide range of effective strategies that enable advanced
children to flourish in mixed-ability classrooms. The shared
procedures invite all children to learn while promoting
advanced achievement, high-level thinking, complexity, and
depth using wonderful children’s literature, simple
materials, learning stations, and graphic organizers that
minimize the intensity of teacher preparation.
- Recommended
materials:
Rigor and Engagement for Growing Minds: Strategies
that Enable Advanced Children to Flourish in
Mixed-ability Classrooms (In press)
Teaching Without
Nonsense: Activities and Techniques for Effective
Instruction: Grades K-8
It is nonsense to promote simple thinking when high-level
thinking results in higher achievement; it is nonsense to
apply basic learning experiences that are fun but lack
productive applications of challenging concepts and skills;
and it is nonsense to make instructional decisions devoid of
research. Dr. Kingore models a potpourri of ready-to-use
learning experiences and techniques to insure that each
student experiences continuous learning. The modeled
applications include 10 quick assessment techniques when you
only have a minute.
Tiered Learning Stations:
Increase Achievement, High-Level Thinking, and the Joy of
Learning: Grades 1-8
Learning stations are work sites where significant
learning objectives and flexible group interactions are
accomplished with a minimum of classroom space. Tiered
stations promote continuous learning for all students at
appropriate yet varied levels of complexity and depth. Learn
how to organize stations that increase students' achievement
gains, integrate learning standards and high-level thinking,
extend student responsibility, develop independent work
habits, and use rubrics and reflection to assess the quality
of product and process. This session includes plans for
several tiered learning stations that teachers can prepare
in minutes to accelerate students' minds and bodies into a
high learning gear.
Ways to Save Time,
Promote Rigor, and Increase Engagement: Grades K-8 or
K-12
In a rigorous learning environment, students are
expected to engage in high-level learning processes,
supported so they can learn, and required to demonstrate
relevant products and content. This practical presentation
demonstrates differentiation that is manageable and
effective in a rigorous learning environment. Through humor
and practical applications, Dr. Kingore translates
achievement research into realistic and effective strategies
that participants select to differentiate instruction in
mixed-ability classrooms without leaving advanced students
behind. Educators learn to integrate rigor into instruction,
and then teach students how to apply these elements to their
studies. You will exit with ready-to-use strategies and
tools you can apply every day to raise the level of
engagement and achievement in classrooms.
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