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Workshops

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, click here to email her.

 

KEYNOTES

Differentiation: Simplified, Realistic, and Effective
Educators increase expertise in differentiating instruction and prioritize a sequence for implementing differentiation.

Promoting Excellence
This session promotes the best research-based strategies and practices that motivate advanced students to excel at their appropriate pace and level.

Translating Research into Effective Gifted Instruction
Through a humorous yet thoughtful approach, this session examines current research influencing advanced and gifted students' achievement and teachers' instructional effectiveness in mixed-ability classrooms.

Nurturing Potential and Passion: 20 Ready-to-Use Strategies
This humorous and practical session translates achievement research into realistic and effective strategies for mixed-ability classrooms. The emphasis is on learning experiences 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.

 

BREAKOUTS OR ALL-DAY SESSIONS

Beyond the Basal: Challenging Strategies for Advanced Readers, Grades K-6
This presentation shares research-based language arts strategies and models how to implement those strategies with advanced readers while directing instruction with others. Engage in preparation-friendly strategies, graphic organizers, high-level thinking tasks, and specific books that appropriately challenge advanced readers toward complex thinking and in-depth content.

Differentiation 101: Grades K-12
This fast-paced session helps gifted educators increase colleagues' and parents' understanding of differentiation strategies and how to customize instruction to the capabilities of gifted learners. Multiple resources provide a means to ensure continued communication among educators and parents.

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.

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.

Integrating 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 Gifted Potential: Identifying Gifted Behaviors in Elementary Children, Grades K-6
Developmentally appropriate identification of children and under-represented populations is a significant issue. This session highlights features of the Kingore Observation Inventory (KOI) and planned experiences that 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 experiences communicating results with parents.

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.

Teaching Without Nonsense: Translating Research into Practice, Grades K-12
This session translates achievement research into realistic and practical strategies for differentiating instruction and classroom management. The emphasis is on learning experiences that work with multiple topics and incorporate targeted concepts and skills so less intensive teacher preparation results in multiple applications and higher student achievement. This session includes quick assessment techniques that work when you only have a minute.

Tiered Centers in Minutes: Grades K-6
Tiered centers respond to the diverse learning profiles and instructional needs of all students in mixed-ability classrooms. This session provides strategies to develop work stations that differentiate the complexity of learning tasks without overwhelming teachers! Demonstrations of standards alignment, management systems, and simple techniques for tiering centers enable teachers to confidently implement tiered centers that are ready in minutes.

Tiering Instruction, Assessing Achievement: 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 seamlesly incorporate assessment techniques.

Wonderful Books Are My Favorite Teaching Tools, Grades K-6
This session is filled with innovative ideas incorporating splendid books that provide skilled teachers with the power to stimulate intellectual curiosity while applying a plethora of concepts and skills. Let's make teaching fun again as we use research-based strategies and great books to increase students' achievement.