Description
In this 6-hour course, Lisa Van Gemert, highlights the importance of differentiated instruction in meeting the needs of every student with a focus on gifted students. She presents practical classroom strategies and draws a clear distinction between differentiation and “more-ferentiation” (or simply offering more work to gifted students). This course includes practical applications and downloadable handouts.
Broken up into five modules, Ms. Van Gemert provides in-depth information on:
- Guiding principles and key ideas for implementation
- Tactics for creating an environment for differentiation
- Strategies for content (including depth, complexity and student interest)
- The learning process (including options for tiering instruction)
Presenter Bio
Lisa Van Gemert shares best practices in education with audiences around the world using a combination of neuropsychology, pedagogy, experience, humor, technology and sheer fun. She is an expert consult to television shows including Lifetime’s “Child Genius,” and a writer of award-winning lesson plans, as well as numerous published articles on social psychology and pedagogy and the book, Perfectionism: A Practical Guide to Managing Never Good Enough. A former teacher, school administrator, and Youth & Education Ambassador for Mensa, she shares resources for educators and parents on her website giftedguru.com and is co-founder with Ian Byrd of the Gifted Guild, a professional community for educators of the gifted. Lisa and her husband Steve are the parents of three sons and live in Arlington, Texas.
Scott – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
Entertaining yet gets all the information across that is needed.
April – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD – SAN ANTONIO DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course is well organized and engaging. This course provides many useful resources for all academics levels.
Orlando – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome
Megan – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
I thought this course was very informative. I appreciated how the course gave real life strategies to use.
Maria – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I think this does have useful information, but feels a bit outdated. Many of the things I “learned” in this course I had gone over multiple times in other trainings. The resources can be useful, but many of them we have alternatives that are simpler and take less time.
Phillip – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I found this course very helpful.
Erika – CANUTILLO ISD (verified owner) –
No opinion
Linda – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
It was very interesting and offered a lot of great strategies and ideas.
Amanda – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Great, very helpful!
Charles – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
A lot of great information