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.
Ariel – REYNOLDSBURG CITY (verified owner) –
This course provided a great overview of differentiation and provided many resources and examples of how differentiation can be used in the classroom without the need to increase planning time.
I loved all the links to resources given. Some of the links, however, no longer work.
Guy – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
good for overall differentiation strategies and beginner techniques
Mayra – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
A very helpful and resourceful course.
Monica – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
good
Racine – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Mara – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This was a very intriguing course and was well thought out. Lisa spoke about differentiation and the ways that we can incorporate it in the classroom. She made it sound like a feasible task and explained things VERY clearly so that you could understand and eventually model in your class.
Carla – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This was an excellent course. It offered an array of differentiation processes
Heriberto – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
4.5
Larry – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It was ok. There seemed to be a lot of product placement, but not a lot of techniques to help with differentiation. The actual techniques that were discussed are somewhat helpful
Ethem – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
I like it