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.
Julie – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
This was amazing. I learned a lot, and the instructor made it easy to understand and inspired me.
Gicela – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Excellent training. Learned more techniques than I anticipated.
Maria S – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative. It explains very well how differentiation might look in a classroom. It also explains what is not differentiation. Provides with many examples of differentiation methods that can be done.
LINDA – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative! Excellent presentation!
Josefa – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
More indepth discussion on differentiating that I did not before
Stephen – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
It’s fine.
Ellen – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course.
Sarah – LUBBOCK ISD (verified owner) –
This was a very concise and informative course. Many strategies I already use but I also gained some new strategies as well. The resources were amazing and very helpful.
Elaine – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
excellent
Chloe – LUBBOCK ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed her way of teaching and explaining things. She gave me a lot of useful tools and ideas to use in my classroom.