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.
Ana – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I like how it explained various ways of differentiation but for someone that is learning new things about it, it might be sensory overload. I feel we got too many resources that by the end I couldn’t remember half of them.
Veronica – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I love this course. I got a lot of material to use with my students. I recommend this course to all my colleagues.
Arnulfo – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I found this course very rewarding. I liked all of the strategies for differentiation provided. I will try and use tiering and compacting as well as icons.
Pamela – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
This was very interesting. I learned a lot.
Joshua – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
The course was a valuable use of my time, i feel as though I have a good variety of tools to add to my differentiation tool box.
Adanna – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
This course contains a lot of useful resources that can be used in the classroom.
Collin – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
informative if you have no prior experience or very little experience with differentiation. redundant information though if you are already implementing this practice in your classroom.
Josephine – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and well explained.
Luis – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Easy to follow and very detailed.
Irma – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Amazing!