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.
Kathy – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
It offers a lot of cool sites for teachers to use for resources.
Desi – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Very well developed and learned a lot.
Patricia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great presentation I love all the tools(websites) she used. I will put them to practice
Melody – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
this course is a very information in which i plan to implement in my class.
Rosa – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Training was well delivered great facilitator
Felisha – HUNTSVILLE ISD – TEXAS ONLINE PREP (verified owner) –
I thought this course provided some great ideas and strategies to use in the classroom.
Brittney – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this course was very informative. I liked that many resources were shared and examples of possible strategies to use.
Gianna – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This training provides useful real life resources. It would be better for teachers to receive this training during summer in order to implement strategies learned in the course from the beginning of the school year.
Cassidy – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed that the course was self paced and it helped give me more ideas for differentiation.
Erica – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
This gives you various resources and examples.