Volume I. Issue II. April-June, 2005
Newsletter
ATTENTION ALL EDUCATORS, ADMINISTRATORS, AND PARENTS!!!
MALLETT & COMPANY is proud to present you with an exciting start to SUMMER TRAINING for all educators and parents. We are providing the thirty-hour gifted and talented training during the week of June 20-24, 2005 from 8:30am to 4:30pm at the WP Hebert Health and Wellness Center, 3030 North Street, Beaumont, Texas. Joseph Smith and his staff serve lunch Monday through Friday! Great Food!!! The cost for each seminar is $100.00. If you sign up for all five seminars there is a price break of $50.00. Hurry and register on line. There will be a maximum of thirty (30) participants for each seminar. Anyone who missed part of the thirty-hour required training and needs the credit for their certification please sign up, now! THIS PRICE INCLUDES MATERIALS!!! Parking is FREE! The deadline for the June 20-24 training is June 15th. Each participant will receive a certificate for each session.
Educators may choose from the following training sessions:
- Nature and Needs of the Gifted and Talented
- Identification and Assessment for the Gifted and Talented
- Social and Emotional Needs of the Gifted and Talented
- Creativity and Instructional Strategies for the Gifted and Talented
- Differentiated Curriculum for the Gifted and Talented
The Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented has approved all seminars for educator and administrator training for gifted and talented education. To sign up for the training, please go to the web site at: www.mallett-and-company.com (Go to the section “registration” to complete the form. Please be sure to include all requested information.)
What’s Up with MALLETT & COMPANY???
Tune in to Fox News Radio 1380 on your AM dial on Saturday, April 1 and May 21 to hear the Ronnie Linden Show. Host Ronnie Linden will have Deborah Mallett as his guest, once again. She will be talking about the characteristics of gifted and talented learners and will take your calls! Other issues on the programs will include: A teacher’s role in the social-emotional environment, a review of the five areas of giftedness, and the parents’ role once they discover they have a gifted child.
Deborah Mallett, CEO of Mallett & Company has been invited to speak at the South Dallas Gifted and Talented Conference on July 18-19. Ennis ISD will be hosting the event for their 250 educators. The seminars will include Nature and Needs of the Gifted and Talented on July 18th, and Identification and Assessment for the Gifted and Talented on July 19th. Thank you, South Dallas Districts for the invitation!!!
What’s Up with Gifted and Talented Education in Texas???
Did you know that only $188.00 is allotted yearly to each identified gifted and talented student? Mrs. Shapiro, one of our state representatives from Plano, spoke at the Thursday night dinner at the Annual TAGT Leadership Conference, March 31-April 1. Thirty billion dollars are spent on education each year in Texas! House Bill 1394 only allows 6 million out of the 30 billion to go to talented and gifted education! She went on to say that “2.5 out of 4 kindergarten children who start school in Texas actually graduate”. Rewarding and training high quality teachers is important to Representative Shapiro. The Davidson Institute rated Texas the best in the country for identifying gifted and talented students. However, Texas is weakest in servicing the gifted and talented in our state. Why? We must have teacher training accountability. The state mandates that every teacher who has a gifted child in the classroom must complete the required 30-hour gifted and talented training and complete the yearly 6-hour update. We need incentive programs for those districts, which will be accountable, according to Representative Shapiro. She appropriately quoted Sir Winston Churchill, “Sometimes to do your best is not good enough. You must do what is right.” Representative Shapio encouraged everyone to contact their state representative and support dedicated funding for Gifted and Talented Education in Texas!
MALLETT &
COMPANY attended two very informative sessions at the
Leadership Conference: Over excitabilities and Emotional Intensity presented
by Dr. Debra Troxclair; and, Differentiation Using the 5-Star Model by
Dr. Joyce Juntune. Both sessions were on the cutting edge for educators.
Dr. Juntune’s passion for differentiation
for the gifted students was expressed in her model. Her techniques for
illustrating the differences between gifted and the non-gifted in the
classroom were superb. She said that the “depth and complexity”
is where the difference occurs. She emphasized that educators must give
students CHOICES. Most importantly, teachers must know what their students’
interests are. Thank you, Joyce!
Dr. Troxclair was informative, humorous,
and innovative as she told about the characteristics of the gifted and
talented learner. She used K. Dabrowski’s Theory of Overexcitabilities.
Dabrowski states: Intense + Sensitive = Gifted. Dr. Troxclair’s
presentation was like a breath of fresh air!!! Thank you, Debra!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CONFRATUTE at the University of Connecticut!!!
MALLETT & COMPANY highly recommends this exciting and fun filled two weeks at UConn. The training for teachers in the field of talented and gifted education is superb! Dr. Joseph Renzulli and Dr. Sally Reis have wonderful events planned for all participants. The conference is for two weeks and includes speakers: Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson, Dr. Sandra Kaplan, Dr. Del Siegle, Dr. Rachel McAnallen, Dr. Ellen Winner, not to mention, Joe and Sally! REGISTER NOW! You may go online at: confratute@uconn.edu or call 860-486-4826. Deborah Mallett has attended several times and says that nothing compares with the training, fellowship, and amazing insight that this conference provides. Educators from all over the planet attend year after year. This marks the 28th year of service to the educational community!!! Thank you so much, Joe and Sally, and all of your staff!!!
About every seven years, the World Conference for the Gifted Child is in the United States. This year’s conference will be in New Orleans on August 3-7th at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans at the Louisiana Superdome. To find out more go to the web site at: www.WorldGifted.org or call 818-368-7501 for more information.
The SENG Conference for 2005 is July 8-10 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This conference is for everyone interested in gifted and talented. For more information go to the web site at: www.Sengifted.org
Kindest regards,
Deborah G. Mallett, Ed.M., CEO