Orange County Council for Gifted and Talented Education

OCC GATE Fall Conference 2009

The 2009 fall conference is over, but if you'd like to download the handouts and PowerPoint presentations from this year's presenters, you can do so here. (Note: The .ppt files are quite a bit larger than the .pdf files, so they may take longer to download, depending on your connection speed.)

Ian Byrd, GGUSD, "Motivation in Social Studies Using Universal Themes and Creative, Parallel Histories" (.PDF | .PPT)
Tracy Chung, PYLUSD, "Differentiation Templates" (.PDF 1 | .PDF 2 | .PDF 3 | .PDF 4 | .PDF 5 | .PDF 6 | .PDF 7)
Kim Dodds, NMUSD, "Putting Kids First: Differentiating a Prescribed Reading Curriculum" (.PDF 1 | .PDF 2)
Wendy Hayes Ebright, LBUSD, "Think Like a Historian" (.PDF 1 | .PDF 2 | .PDF 3 | .PDF 4 | .PDF 5)
Marcie Griffith, GGUSD, "Differentiated Response to Literature" (.PDF 1 | .PDF 2 | .PDF 3 | .PPT)
Marcie Griffith, GGUSD, "Think Like a Disciplinarian!" (.PDF 1 | .PDF 2 | .PDF 3 | .PDF 4 | .PPT)
Deborah Hazelton, CAG, "Stimulating Curiosity and Creativity in the Home" (.PDF)
Sandi Ortiz Ishii, GGUSD, "The World Café: Scaffold for Enriched Discussion" (.PDF 1 | .PDF 2 | .PDF 3 | .PDF 4 | .PDF 5 | .PPT)
Jordy Jahn, GGUSD, "Making Deeper Connections in Mathematics Through the Use of Concept Attainment and Depth & Complexity" (.PDF 1 | .PDF 2 | .PPT)
Dawn Lakowski & Linda Mehlbrech, LBUSD, "What Does Rigor Look Like?" (.PPT | .PDF 1 | .PDF 2)
Sharon Maeda, TUSD, "Motivating Gifted Learners Through Compacting and Extension Menus" (.PDF)
Paige McGinty McCord, USC, "Inductive/Deductive Reasoning" (.PDF)
Paige McGinty McCord, USC, "Infusing the Standards Based Curriculum with Classical Ideas, Works and Compositions" (.PDF)
Jeri Shaver, LBUSD, "Math Projects Across the Disciplines" (.PDF 1 | .PDF 2 | .PDF 3 | .PDF 4 | .PDF 5 | .PDF 6 | .PDF 7 | .PDF 8 | .PDF 9 | .PDF 10 | .PDF 11 | .PDF 12)