Summer PD courses will be held at Round Rock High School this year. Please check the course descriptions to register on Eduphoria, and confirmation of location.
Our workshop is based on the book The Wild Card by Hope and Wade King and strategies from Bill Perryman’s book 7 Steps to Developing a Language Rich Interactive Classroom. We use the content from the King’s book to generate thinking stems that help teachers to explore risk taking. We use examples and articles to build the scaffolding to take risks. We use Q&A strategies from Perryman’s book to read the articles but also demonstrate how they work and can be easily implemented in your classroom making every student accountable. These strategies have been very successful with our talented and gifted population because they get so tired of the same lessons and techniques and start tuning out. These lessons hold every child accountable, but even better, they are engaged and eager to participate.
