Staff Development Specializing in Differentiated Instruction
from Pieces of Learning

Janet Aaker Smith

Janet's interest, experience, and expertise in educating students in all levels is reflected in her broad teaching and consultancy career. She is a celebrated presenter and author who works extensively with parents, teachers, and organizations in the areas of brain compatible learning, gifted education, creative and critical thinking, motivation, active learning, learning styles, cooperative learning, and multiple intelligences.

Janet co-founded the Vibrant Learning Company which is dedicated to improving education by offering the highest quality products and services based on recent research that directly relates to effective and practical strategies for teachers and students.

Janet has also presented in the Bright Sparks and Middle Years of Schooling programs at Deakin University in Australia. She is a past Vice President for the Victorian Association of Gifted and Talented Children.

Janet's topics include:

• Giggles and Chuckles: Humor in the Differentiated and Thinking Classroom 
• RTI and Differentiated Instruction: How They Work Together 
• Kids Under Construction! Brain Compatible Classrooms
• Extreme Makeover: Brain Compatible Differentiated Instruction (DI) 
• Caught in the Middle! - The Middle Years of Schooling
  
• The Good, The Bad, and ... The Gifted!
  
• You Have the Right to ... Extend, Enrich, and Challenge! Challenging Puzzles for Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts
• Simply the Best! Instructional Strategies that Work!
  
• Aptitude, Altitude, and Attitude: On the Straight and Level, or Not!
  
• Gifted Students, Cooperation, and Problem Solving
  
• Engaging Student Learning Through the Use of Creative and Critical Thinking Strategies
  
• Classroom Connections
  
• Practical Applications of Multiple Intelligences Theory 

Response to Intervention Workshops

• Motivating All Students: Strategies to Use with the RTI Approach 
• RTI and Differentiated Instruction: How They Work Together

KEYNOTES:

• Humor in the Classroom
  
• My Top 10 List of What I Have Learned from Teaching Gifted Students - But I only Remember 5!
  
• Everyone has a brain. Where did I leave mine?

PARENTS:

• Lifelong Learning – Model it!

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