The Gateways Education team conduct professional development programs in a variety of different areas relating to education in general, differentiation and gifted education as well as to support the use of Gateways differentiated resources.

These professional development opportunities are offered through conferences, seminars and workshops for educators and administrators across educational settings as well as to families seeking to support their children in formal educational settings or through the option of home schooling. Workshops, seminars and conferences focus on specific issues and educational pedagogies facing administrators, teachers, parents and families each year.

Additionally, ongoing mentoring for educators in schools and early childhood settings who are seeking to embrace contemporary perspectives of teaching and learning is available from experienced leaders in the field.
Specific professional development areas include:  

• The nature of giftedness in early childhood
• Identification of giftedness
• Responding to giftedness
• Developing collaborative relationships with families
• Visual representation and the young gifted child
• Spiritual awareness and the young gifted child
• Social and emotional development
• Developing a policy for gifted children in early childhood
• Giftedness and anti-bias issues
• Programming options, including grouping structures and acceleration
• Underachievement
• Developing school policies and programs
• Exceptionally and profoundly gifted students
• Gifted Learning Disabled students
• Integrated curriculum
• Independent research projects
• Developing differentiated units of work
• Productive pedagogies
• Middle school and differentiated curriculum
• Meeting the state or national outcomes documents in curriculum design
• Innovative practices
• Leadership and visions for the future

Inservices may involve one or more of these topics (or any other negotiated topics) and be held in half day or whole day sessions. A Gateways Education consultant is available to meet with the Principal, Gifted Coordinator and/or Executive staff to design a program of inservice which will best fit the needs of the individual school.