California Association for the Gifted 58th Annual Conference

This workshop will provide opportunities for participants to reflect upon their own classroom practices in regards to culturally teaching and learning. Participants will also have opportunities to explore ways to provide more culturally responsive teaching.

Throughout the presentation, participants will:

1. Identify gifted characteristics within diverse populations.
2. Understand the correlation between gifted identification and multiple intelligences.
3. Discuss how culturally responsive educational strategies can be embedded in instruction in order to increase motivation and achievement.

How we see children has a profound effect on how we educate them. Schools are designed to “fix” students who are achieving poorly or are misbehaving. This deficit thinking has a profound impact on recruiting, recognizing and retaining gifted students of color and/or living in poverty. Learn how to shift deficit thinking of differing behaviors toward surplus thinking about strengths for learning. Reframe hyperactivity to verve; reframe talkative to fluent verbal abilities. Make powerful changes for underserved gifted students by tapping into strengths. Participants will receive surplus thinking instructional practices and a menu of encouraging additive approaches.