Description
Game designers understand how to engage an audience and keep them coming back for more. Lisa Van Gemert, M.Ed.T., brings together her love of games and her knowledge of classroom instruction to enrich your students’ learning experience. During this fast-paced course, you will apply game design and theory to lesson design.
In this course, participants will learn:
- How games contribute to active learning
- Strategies for implementing gamefication
- Tools for incorporating game principles
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.
Olivia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Highly recommend this course.
Kindra – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Interesting topic. I’m looking forward to delving more into using games in class.
Ferhat – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
I like that woman. She is the best.
YVONNE J – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Enjoyable course, loved the multiple resources discussed that I will incorporate into my classroom. Increase learning by turning the classroom into a gameroom giving students opportunities to increase their score/grades.
WILLIAM G – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
great info
Glennda – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was so great! So applicable.
Tarah – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great info.
Sandra – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It’s very informative
Guadalupe – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
Great!
MARIA D – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was concise and informational. It made me reflect on my teaching to improve it.