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Lost Prizes:  Developing the Talents of At-Risk Students


This program is intended to provide professional development opportunities for educators who work, or who plan to work, with gifted and talented, at-risk students. The program will equip educators with the skills required to identify and nurture the gifts of highly capable, but marginalized children and youth.

A Certificate is awarded to students completing 90 instructional hours.  An Advanced Certificate is awarded to students completing a total of 180 instructional hours.  Students may hold both certificates.

Objectives

This program will provide training for individuals who wish to teach in Lost Prizes Centres, Schools, or other programs serving at-risk students.  Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will be able to:

 • use research to guide and inform planning, and employ best practices in the gifted education and at-risk domains;

 • establish innovative academic and social programs to identify and develop the talents of high-ability, at-risk young people;

 • help the students learn more effective coping and problem solving strategies;

 • take a strength-based rather than a deficit approach for vulnerable youth;

 • embrace and respond to a diverse set of student needs and challenges;

 • encourage colleagues and others to become “talent spotters,” who look for positives in their students on a daily basis (Young, 1995);

 • develop skills in working with marginalized young people including those involved in youth gang activity;

 • utilize a variety of assessment strategies to gauge and improve student academic and social progress in tangible and specific ways;

 • share lessons learned with the field through professional development sessions, courses, and publications.


Courses and workshops are as follows:

 ADHD: Disorder or Gift?

Creating Creative, Cooperative Environments Creatively and Cooperatively

 Creative Problem Solving Strategies

 Gifted Education, Enrichment, and Talent Development

 Introduction to Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI)

 Lines in the Sand: Are Certain Students Being Marginalized in our System?

 Mentoring for Resilience

 Recognizing and Nurturing the Talent of Lost Prizes

 Renzulli Learning System

 Introduction to Response Ability Pathways (RAP)

 

 Bullying and Teasing at School: Angry Words, Angry Minds

 Developing Resilient Young People

 Educators and the Law

 Establishing Effective Programs for Disengaged Youth

 Facilitating Problem Solving with Early Years Students

 Indigenous Education: An Introduction

 Just and Effective Education

 Learning Disabilities: Addressing Hidden Problems

 Real-Life Issues in the School Setting

Social Skills Training

 Special Education: An Overview

 Teaching English as an Additional Language

 Gender and Sexual Diversity

 Trends and Topics in Education

 Effective Use of Educational Assistants in the Classroom


For more information on this program, please contact n.stokes@uwinnipeg.ca