Gifted Coordinator Toolkit
Maximize the growth of your advanced learners.
Are you a new Gifted Coordinator, unsure about where to begin? Or are you a Curriculum and Instruction Director wanting to refresh your Advanced Academic programming? Maybe you’re a teacher struggling to differentiate instruction within your classroom.
This toolkit is for you.
Written by an experienced educator and district leader, Monica Simonds, M.Ed., this toolkit provides guiding questions, resources, and best practices to help you build your Gifted program, strengthen your Advanced Academic enrichment, or provide individualized strengths-based instruction to meet every learner’s unique needs. Use the navigation bar below to access the self-guided modules or navigate to the modules in any order based on the topics most pertinent to your professional learning.
Module 1
Job Embedded Professional Learning
Module 2
Language Matters
Module 3
Leveraging Conversations
Module 4
Gifted Identification & Service Models
Module 5
Universal Screening & Norming Practices
Module 6
Multiple Pathways & Differentiated Services
Module 7
The Power of GT in the PLC
Module 8
Clustering & Flexible Grouping
Module 9
Student Goal-Setting
Module 10
CogAT + Achievement Data = Growth
Module 11
GT in MTSS
Module 12
GT & Emerging Bilingual
Module 13
Acceleration