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.
Terry – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
great ideas
Marie – DRISCOLL ISD (verified owner) –
This course was full of ideas and helpful resources to use with students to make learning more fun and engaging.
Garrett – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Loved it!
Anna – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the course.
Michele – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Great course with new ideas for the classroom.
Debra – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I REALLY enjoyed this course. It has me rethinking my entire classroom management, in a GOOD way. My favorite thing was the ideas to get kids motivated by having them earn points for a bigger and outside goal, such as a charity.
SANDRA ANNETTE – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I liked all of the tips and suggested resources that were given.
Jamie – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
This course provided a lot of great ideas and reasources that are easy to implement in all classrooms.
Zeniff – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course puts things into perspective when considering creating games for students to be engaged.
Jon – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
good course