2010 WAETAG Conference Featured Speaker
Michael Clay Thompson
During his thirty years as teacher, administrator and scholar, Michael Clay Thompson has inspired thousands of students, parents and educators to love language and literature. Michael is the author of numerous books of language arts for gifted children, including The Word Within the Word series, Caesar’s English, and The Magic Lens series. He is currently in demand as a consultant, speaker and workshop presenter. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children and is an online instructor in Language Arts for the Northwestern University Gifted Learning Links program. He has been a faculty member of the Wake Forest University Summer Institute for Gifted Education, the University of North Carolina/ Charlotte Summer institute for Gifted Education and The Cullowhee Experience. He has served on the Board of Directors for the North Carolina Association of Gifted & Talented and on the regional Board of Advisors to the North Carolina/South Carolina Future Problem Solving Program. He has been consultant to the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary, consultant and Lead Scholar for the National Javits Project for Language Arts and President of the Indiana Gifted Association.
Handouts for the conference are available here in PDF format:
* 100 Classic Words
* Developing Verbal Talent
You can also see a listing of Michael Clay Thompson's Language Arts Curriculum on the Royal Fireworks Press website.
An interesting article on our conference theme “Proficiency is Not Enough” can be viewed here: http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=997
During his thirty years as teacher, administrator and scholar, Michael Clay Thompson has inspired thousands of students, parents and educators to love language and literature. Michael is the author of numerous books of language arts for gifted children, including The Word Within the Word series, Caesar’s English, and The Magic Lens series. He is currently in demand as a consultant, speaker and workshop presenter. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children and is an online instructor in Language Arts for the Northwestern University Gifted Learning Links program. He has been a faculty member of the Wake Forest University Summer Institute for Gifted Education, the University of North Carolina/ Charlotte Summer institute for Gifted Education and The Cullowhee Experience. He has served on the Board of Directors for the North Carolina Association of Gifted & Talented and on the regional Board of Advisors to the North Carolina/South Carolina Future Problem Solving Program. He has been consultant to the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary, consultant and Lead Scholar for the National Javits Project for Language Arts and President of the Indiana Gifted Association.
Handouts for the conference are available here in PDF format:
* 100 Classic Words
* Developing Verbal Talent
You can also see a listing of Michael Clay Thompson's Language Arts Curriculum on the Royal Fireworks Press website.
An interesting article on our conference theme “Proficiency is Not Enough” can be viewed here: http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=997
