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.
Paula – BETH YESHURUN DAY SCHOOL (verified owner) –
I got a lot of great information to use or try to use in class.
Diana – EAST CHAMBERS ISD (verified owner) –
Great! Love working at my own pace. Lots of tools provided.
monica – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent!
Judy – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Sandra – Colegio Nueva Granada (verified owner) –
It really showed that differentiation is not more work but strategic work
Madeline – MANOR ISD (verified owner) –
It was wonderful! I could follow along and it gives me tons of resources. This also had me thinking of my previous years of teaching and how I can work moving forward.
Maria – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Love it
Nicole – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
There is reference made to page numbers and we do not have those available to us to make notes as needed. Also, there were some awesome links to resources that were shared and I would have liked to have a list of them so we can use them in the future.
Maria – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Is the best course that I’ve ever taken. Because Im the very visual person, and she use a lot of diagrams, pictures and examples to explain the different concepts. Also she gave us a lot of resources that we can use in our classroom to make much better and differentiate in our classes
Johanna – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
This was actually very interesting and I have quite a few ideas for implementation during next school year.