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.
Andy – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
This course gave me many ideas to take back with me to the classroom
Cynthia – Private Pay (verified owner) –
interesting content
Linda – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
no comment
Ana – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
Good course.
Sarah – MANOR ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Kasi – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
It was very educational.
Bradford – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
I do not have an opinion.
Susana – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
great information and resources
Lucia – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I think it was very helpful to understand the difference in tearing and compacting for me to learn how to assist my students and how they learn and how they will understand the material.
Ileana – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
There was good information but one of the things is how we are learning about the process of differentiation yet we are not trained using differentiation. A formative assessment followed by a tailored course would be optimum.