Description
Do you ever feel like you’re behind the 8-ball when you do a walk-through, or hold a traditional assessment instrument up against a gifted classroom? That doesn’t have to be the case when you have tools specific to assessing gifted classes. Lisa Van Gemert uses her experience evaluating G/T strategies in the classroom to offer a fresh look at assessments.
In this 1-hour course, you will learn to:
- Empower teachers to grow in their strengths
- Discern the difference between good goals and ambiguous goals
- Look past personal preferences to give effective assessments
- Use language that fosters healthy relationships with teachers
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.
Sean – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This showed me things that I will implement into my school to help improve the quality of teaching
Brian – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (FORT WORTH) (verified owner) –
This course gave me things to think about when observing GT teachers. Or any teachers.
JEFFREY L – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This evaluation is no longer current.
Kristina – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Very helpful and inspiring – glad to find some PD for administrators on what to look for in their teachers teaching the GT students.
Cristina – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
This course is great for administrators because it helps give you a way of making sure GT strategies are involved in the classroom.
Midge – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent and despite the evaluation system changing in Texas, all information is still relevant to today and provides excellent leadership strategies.
Johnny – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
Good Course
Celeste – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
I believe this training gave valuable insight.
Rochelle – PRESIDIO ISD (verified owner) –
This is very helpful especially for first time administrators on what to expect to teachers and how to assist them in their success in the classroom especially in dealing with GT students.
gary – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
my admin should take this course