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.
Brianna – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
I took a lot away from this course! I have ideas for next school year and some new resources to try out!
Lauren – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome!
Lisa – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great, relevant information.
Nicole – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
great
ROSA E – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I would most definitely rate this training a 5! I absolutely loved it! I am grateful for it being self-paced. I appreciate that it saves your work and allows you to return to the last slide that you viewed. I was reminded of how awesome Screencast-o-matic is and I incorporated screencasts to show my students how to access programs online when we moved to remote learning. It really explained what differentiation is and showed me that it is doable and necessary in my classroom in order to meet the needs of each of my students, keeping them engaged and challenged at their level. I loved all the resources and examples that were provided. Thank you very much!
Enedina – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
excellent examples and useful websites to enhance learning
armando – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I strongly recommend this course to all teachers.
Otila – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative as she discussed various ways of differentiating in the classroom. It is a course I would definitely recommend to other teachers.
Norma – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome presenter one of the best I have had in my 20 plus years of teaching. She made differentiation something I look forward to doing without being negative. I have always felt like I was differentiating but actually I was just creating extra work for me and my students.
Kristin – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course . . . she was interesting and gave practical methods to differentiate in the classroom. These ideas can be applied to many different levels of learners.