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.
Joseph – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
i think this course was great i would like a refresher on this so i dont lose focus on what to look for in gifted students.
Amanda – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
informative
Hana – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Excellent course. Very informational.
Stephanie – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course. I am learning more information that will be very helpful within my class and with gifted studuents.
Benancio – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Stop referring to Native Americans and Indians. As a Navajo I find this highly offensive. It was said in regards “Ten Little Indians” comment about the piano and at one other point in this lesson. I cannot express this enough. Indians are from India. Native Americans were here before you all were.
Gabriela – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Great information.
Erik – LUBBOCK ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Yanitza – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
This course is very helpful specially when you have no clue about what is gifted and how you can identify these students.
Kayley – RIESEL ISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Sarah – LUBBOCK ISD (verified owner) –
I think the resources, brain breaks, knowledge she shared has been the most useful thing I’ve learned for my GT students (especially being a first year teacher since not many understand GT here as well as Lisa does as she has studied, learned, and taught).