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.
Mary – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
A lot of useful information, maybe even an overload.
Mignon – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
The course was well planned and informative.
Terri – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
great tips and tools
Kai – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
loved ythe course and ready to start using in my classroom
Silvia – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Very well designed and easy to follow.
Katie – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Overall this was a good training. The presenter made a joke about mental illnesses during Module 1 or 2 and that really turned me off for the remainder of the training. Mental illness is not a joke and it is not okay to make people with mental illnesses feel like they are less than others. Please consider editing this portion out.
Jori – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Presenter included a lot of useful tools, I would have given five stars if there were more examples of the tools incorporated into varying curricula.
Angelina – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course provided very meaningful information and strategies to use in our classroom. Just needs to be updated as there are a few websites that are no longer available.
Ruben – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Simple straight forward way of using differentiation in the classroom.
CELINA – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed all the websites that she talked about. I did not know they existed and were free.