WOGI Institutes
Save the Date for the 2011 WOGI Institute
The next WOGI
Institute is set for
June 2-3, 2011. Dr.
Mary Slade will present an all day session on program evaluation. This
topic is of special importance as we begin implementing the state plan.
Watch for more details later in the year.
2010 WOGI Institute
The 2010 WOGI Institute keynote was Dr. Mary Slade, who presented "Best Practices in Gifted Education" at the
2010 WOGI Institute. Dr. Slade is a Professor in the Department of
Exceptional Education in the College of Education at James Madison
University. She directs the gifted
education coursework and the Pre-K-12 Add-On Gifted Education
Endorsement Program at JMU, and is co-author of a staff development book in gifted
education and co-editor of Aiming for Excellence: The NAGC Pre-K-12
Gifted Program Standards. A downloadable version of her PowerPoint presentation is
available below.
2010 Institute Agenda (PDF)
Mary Slade's Best Practices in Gifted Education
Rubric for Scoring Shared Inquiry Participation
2009 WOGI Institute
The 2009 WOGI Institute keynote was Dr. Julia L. Roberts, co-author of
Assessing Differentiated Student Products: A Protocol for Development
and Evaluation, who offered strategies related to designing student
product rubrics utilizing the Florida’s Frameworks for K-12 Gifted
Learners. In addition, several coordinators of gifted programs presented
information on their screening pilots related to reducing
disproportionality in their gifted programs. Kimberley Kraft, from
Pearson, shared information about the new online version of the Naglieri
Nonverbal Ability Test 2.
2009 Institute Agenda (PDF)