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.
Victor – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course
Aiden – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful ways on how to identify gifted students!
Jeneen – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Lisa did it again! I thought this course was very insightful and informative. I appreciated her willingness to address the uncomfortable subject of race and giftedness.
Sarah – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Really informative and engaging course on diagnosing gifted students.
FABIAN – MANOR ISD (verified owner) –
Too long and densed
Alondra – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I overall enjoyed learning about the diversity among gifted students.
Emily – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
A few things that would improve these modules include the following:
– Some of the instructor’s opinions are simply her opinions and not necessarily shared by her students (i.e. her mischaracterization and dismissal of Howard Gardner and psychotropic drugs [please read some criticism of The Emperor’s New Pill])
– I would not refer to myself as a guru as it implies that her students should simply follow her blindly as an unquestionable authority rather than a teacher.
– Most of the questions are simply recall. I think it would be more advantageous for the students (us) to use the ideas to build on our practice.
– Building off of my last criticism, I would also appreciate something a bit more differentiated. The pace is a little slow and therefore tedious. I would prefer to get the information in text form and later produce something that is either creative, evaluative, analytical, or some other higher-order thinking verb.
Anna – ANDREWS ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Nicholas – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent
Maria – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course. I wish I could have done it in person.