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.
Claudia – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
It was a great course! I learned about tiering and compacting, and other strategies to differentiate GT students.
Karin – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
The presenter did a phenomenal job and explaining what differentiation is and gave many useful resources/websites. I enjoyed it very much and I feel that I will be able to use many of the ideas she shared with us.
Janice – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course has been the best source of differentiation strategies and resources I have ever attended. I would highly recommend any teacher take this course.
Ashley – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Great information. Ready made tools and tricks to use in your classroom.
Joy – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
The course is very informative.
Tiffany – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This course made differentiation, tiering, and compacting easier. It also gave a lot of resources for teachers to use to do this process.
Mariell – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Perfect well developed and detailed course. I love it and definitely will use it in my educational profession.
Lisa – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It was informative.
Stefanie – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Really informative
Heather – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I thought it was helpful and there are some things I can try to do. It was just a lot of info and not much that pertained to fine arts