Professional Development Workshops in Gifted Education


Dr. Razel Solow, Director of the Gifted Education Center, and Mr. Howard Fuchs, Adjunct Instructor in Gifted Education, provide professional development in gifted education in New York City schools.  They are available for workshops in the greater NY/NJ Metro area.  Workshops have included:

Differentiation of Instruction (Beginners to Advanced)

Teaching with Enduring Understandings (A great basis for differentiation)

"Off the Charts" Creativity

Multidisciplinary Curriculum

Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Children

Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)

Contact: Dr. Razel Solow at 212.650.3599 or rsolow@hunter.cuny.edu for information.

Parent Math Workshops


Math specialist Frances Stern, author of Adding Math, Subtracting Tension, has collaborated with Dr. Solow to offer workshops that help parents to instill a love of numeracy in their children from infancy to their teens.  Parents need not have a background in mathematics or even be comfortable with math to benefit from these workshops. Ms. Stern helps to develop warm, loving and happy parent-child math relationships. She introduces a number of math games, tricks and songs that can't be found in workbooks and guides parents developmentally to avoid home tension due to math. 

Dr. Solow concludes with a short presentation on advanced math development so that parents may recognize abilities and behaviors associated with greater math talent. She provides resources and discusses the issue with workshop attendees.

The Center for Gifted Studies has presented the workshop to a range of parents, some of whom have little background in math.  We believe that math talent may be found in all kinds of children. For that talent to develop well, both the home and the school must encourage and nurture it. More children can develop advanced math talent when they become comfortable with numeracy from a very young age.