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.
Kimberly – IRONTON CITY (verified owner) –
The instructor made it easy to follow and this was something I was interested in doing in my classroom. I like my job and having fun with my students.
Sandy – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I like a lot of the ideas.
Janet – KENT CITY (verified owner) –
I enjoyed when the practical ideas and examples were shared.
Cari – River View Local Schools (verified owner) –
This course was great! It gave lots of tools that had minimal preparation!
Rocio – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I like the examples provided by the presenter.
Stephanie – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was well worth the time!!!! I really enjoyed.
Stephanie – MONTGOMERY ISD (verified owner) –
Yes!
Jamie – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
She gave many different ways to incorporate game-like methods to engage students in their learning.
Terri – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Great course, good ideas
Maria – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
very informative