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.
Mark – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This has been extremely insightful so far. Lisa is amazing and reminds me a bit of my older sister who is also GT. Very good in my opinion. 5 stars.
Pablo – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This was very interesting
Natalie – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It gave great insight, understanding and ways to further distinguish a gifted child.
Sally – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting
Maria – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It is very well organized.
Valerie – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Bindu – The Galloway School (verified owner) –
This course was totally mind blowing, as I learned SO much from each module, and loved the resources and can’t wait to implement all that I learned in my classroom.
Valeria – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It has a lot of useful information for me to use with my GT students
Raymond – PALACIOS ISD (verified owner) –
It was well paced and had some diversions as well.
Hal – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course was too long and boring. There is also bad information in it