Description
Excellent writing skills are essential for long-term success. In this course, you will learn how develop writing skills in your G/T students by learning to craft an AP language class around a central theme and pull many examples of modern and historical speech writing, essays, non-fiction, and literature around it. You’ll be equipped on how to translate each piece into writing assignments or projects that will challenge your students and build these crucial skills.
You will learn how to:
- Create a central themes and tie-in multiple sub-themes
- Tap into a student’s passion
- Generate a classroom environment of active discussion and respectful debate
- Challenge students to expand their thinking and grow in nuance, sophistication and grow in nuance, sophistication, and depth
Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
Michelle – OLENTANGY LOCAL (verified owner) –
Love this! It’s always great to hear from other teachers in my area!!
Laura – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I learned a lot from this session
Michelle – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
Very interesting!
Anne – Laurel Springs School (verified owner) –
Outstanding program, especially for working with GT students at the AP level!
Yaitzma – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Overall, this provided me with strategies that I can easily implement in my classroom.
Allison – DAYTON CITY (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Keith – PARMA CITY (verified owner) –
What a wonderful AP teacher. Her expertise and knowledge are incredible.
Kelly – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Although this was centered around an AP Lang course, I took many writing and reading techniques that I can use in the SS classroom.
Gregory – DAYTON CITY (verified owner) –
I think the methods discussed in this course dovetail nicely with our use of Springboard.
Kathleen – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
very interesting points
Cara – ROCK HILL LOCAL (verified owner) –
Very practical ideas for teaching an intellectual course
Mabel – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
great
Amy – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course! I wish I had access to her handouts. At the end she gave specific sentence starters that I’d love to use!
Abbey – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
Very informative and easy to use in your classroom.
Elsa Diana – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
I would like to said that this training is interesting.
Ileana – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
Good course. Lots of ideas though I would have liked more of an intro into the demographics of her class and the way she targets her gt kids while working with students who may be lower level.
William – FORT RECOVERY LOCAL (verified owner) –
Great content
Celina – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Dr. Schaeffer shares great ideas to creatively help students with their writing.
Jose – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I recommend this course
rabia – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner) –
Very Helpful. We need more of these
Lois – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Tiffany – FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I would have liked to see more of the kinds of questions she asks students instead of an overview.
Denisse – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Elda – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
+I thought the presenter was extremely knowledgeable
Felipe – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Gives good ideas to keep students aware of life in the past , present and future.
Marissa – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course that helps guide teachers through a year long overview of the AP Language classroom.
Jennifer – HERTFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
This was out of date.
Fabiola – ALVARADO ISD (verified owner) –
It was great, I liked her take on teaching critically and/or to write more in depth
Esteban – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It was a very informative course
Debbie – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
How she ties curriculum together and moves across the years as well as other subjects is helpful. I feel like what she does in her class should be used at different levels in all classes.
Michelle – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
The course was effective in helping bridge the GT learner to AP rhetorical writing.
Melissa – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Robert – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
Perusing the title, I chose this training to enhance my GT strategies, and to be frank, this was a pleasant surprise. I know I picked up three good ideas that I can use in all of my classes, GT kids or not.
(Having them read City on a Hill as a summer reading is what I’ll suggest to the Department.)
Adriana – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Laurie – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
It was very informational
Hiram – ANTHONY ISD (verified owner) –
Very insightful information, especially in helping students elevate their writing.
linda – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
GOOD
Seyma – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Excellence
Rebecca – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This training was WAY too long
Jill – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
very informative with the information given; several take-aways to use in the classroom
John – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
Amazing
Kathleen – SANDUSKY CITY (verified owner) –
good ideas for an AP Lang course
Stacey – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
excellent course
Karen – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
The presenter was EXTREMELY condescending and arrogant. I almost stopped watching this because of that. I didn’t like how she would make fun of her students and basically say that they weren’t as smart as they thought they were. No need for that. Plus, I felt like she thinks she’s smarter than any other teachers. Not cool. I don’t doubt that she is a good teacher from a “does she know her content” standpoint, but I would hate to be a student in her class because I would feel like total crap every class period.
Roel – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
great writing ideas
Sonia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
awesome
German – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.
Angelica – PRESIDIO ISD (verified owner) –
great
allyson – CLEBURNE ISD (verified owner) –
This was more of a lecture type class. Sit & Get.
Melissa – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Good source of formative assessments through critical thinking skills.