Description
Lisa Van Gemert, M.Ed.T, describes it this way: Tiered instruction is a quintessential approach to differentiation, in which the same curriculum is tailored to different students’ abilities and interests. Compacting, on the other hand, involves giving a condensed version of your content to a student who has either mastered it already, or will be able to master it quickly.
In this 1-hour course, you will learn:
- 6 steps for effective tiering
- 8 simple rules for compacting
- How to follow the interests of your GT students
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.
LeAnn – GARFIELD RE-2 (verified owner) –
Clear and concise that has given a nice overview and encourages me to find additional resources to become more of an expert but I can start!
Silva – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Absolutely!! It is very helpful!
Claudia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great and insightful!
miriam – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Lisa is one of the best presenters for Gifted and Talented. She makes it easy to understand, fun and interesting. Always looking forward to her courses. Tiering and Compacting is so necessary especially during these times. Students are learning so much from their own electronic devices, by themselves, that I feel this adds extra pressure for us teachers to get their attention in the classroom. Students get bored right away if they sense the material in classroom is repetitious. It’s our responsibility to spice things up in the classroom and the answer is through tiering/compacting.
Nora – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great information and samples given on tiered instruction.
Casey – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This makes Tiering and Compacting simple to start using in your classroom. The resource list provides step by step instructions on how to easily start implementing these in your classroom.
Regina – HERTFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Tiering and Compacting can be beneficial to all students and not just the high flyers.
Debra – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Very Informative!
Troy – GARFIELD RE-2 (verified owner) –
It gave me a good understanding of what tiered instruction and compacting look like.
Sara – GARFIELD RE-2 (verified owner) –
I can’t find the handouts and I think they would’ve been helpful