Description
Making sure gifted students have quality instruction and challenging assignments is widely popular in the education world. But do you know exactly what it means to be gifted and why it matters? This six-hour course, “Identification & Assessment of the Gifted,” addresses issues surrounding gifted students and practical ways to identify them.
Lisa Van Gemert, a leading voice in gifted education, shares an overview of the history of gifted education and its importance today. Educators will also learn how to tell whether or not a student is gifted by using different tests and assessments. Teachers who have a thorough understanding of how to identify and assess gifted students will be able to equip and challenge these students better.
In this informative course educators will learn:
- What it means to be gifted
- Characteristics of gifted children
- How to test intelligence
- The importance of CLD populations
- Traits of twice-exceptional 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.
Margaret – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
The content was excellent – I think the pace could have been a little quicker – esp in regards to the extended description of standard deviation and the testing. But overall, excellent content and I am thinking it will make a difference how I approach gifted students in the classroom.
MOHANA KRISHNA – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
It is a very useful course to identify and nurture gifted and talented students. We have learned so many strategies to identify GT students and how to train them in the best possible way.
Diana – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I like it!
Mayra – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course it really helped me see different perspectives of a gifted student.
Sarah – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
It was extremely informative!
Kecia – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
It is well worth the time spent on taking this course in order to benefit my students in the end. Wish the school district offered them to all teachers.
Elizabeth – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
good course
Abby – LEANDER ISD (verified owner) –
Great course that solidified how we do Identification & Assessment in my district. It gave me some good reminders.
dee – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
very interesting facts!
Emma – FORT STOCKTON ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.