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.
Mark – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
Its challenging and informative.
Alejandro – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent information
Marisa – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was informative and practical in how to differentiate will ALL students in a classroom. It was easy to follow and gave valid and helpful tips on how to implement changes in your own classroom.
Krystal – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
Great tool to teacher proper differentiation of instruction.
Zehra – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Good, lots of good information. Too long training. Doesn’t let you just listen without looking at the actual video while you are on a different tab. That would be awesome if I could listen as well while working other tabs. Didn’t like the question parts.
Veronica – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Great explanation.
Latisha – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
i will recommend this to all my teacher colleague
Erica – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
its informative
Lisa – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Lisa provided a lot of new ideas and strategies for the classroom. i am actually really excited to go play with some of these websites.
Mayra – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative and provided me with a lot of tools that I can use in my classroom.