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.
Scott – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course made me realize that what I thought I was doing well needed a significant amount of improvement.
Leah – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great training!
Diana – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was a very helpful and engaging course. I loved the speaker’s presentation style and she had really great resources.
jeff – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent – well delivered, engaging and interesting!
Jason – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
It’s really good. It made me realize there’s so much more to differentiation than I imagined.
JUANA – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative. Was given excellent examples and ideas that I can take back to my classroom.
Catherine – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed it and found it interesting. I will definitely be using some of the things I learned in my own classroom.
Brook – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Straight forward and easily understandable!
William – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I liked that it went through straightforward steps to implement Differentiation with lots of concrete examples. It made the idea creating differentiated instruction seem less daunting and less time consuming.
Joetta – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful