Description
Incorporating creativity into the classroom isn’t just about making art projects or decorations. It’s about teaching students to approach problems creatively and become richer, deeper thinkers. Lisa Van Gemert, award-winning educational consultant, guides teachers through an in-depth look at how to bring creative instruction into their classrooms. This six-hour course, “Creativity and Instructional Strategies,” dives deep into what creativity is and how to use it in the classroom.
In this course educators will learn about:
- How creativity affects a student’s learning
- Resources for cultivating a creative classroom
- Creative activities
- Humor and creativity
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.
Eric – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
This course has a lot of information when it comes to different strategies you can implement in your classroom that not only work for gifted and talented students, but for all students in general.
Lisa – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
The course was great for providing resources and examples for keeping students engaged and wanting to learn. The only draw back was that the handouts were not provided for online. It would have been great to be able to download them so I could have seen the examples as well.
Michael – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
The course offered some ideas I hadn’t thought of. I will incorporate some of them.
Cynthia – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Very informative
Michele – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
This course has a lot of good strategies that can be implemented into your teaching.
Sarah – MANOR ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the games!
Emily – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
It was really interesting and I learned about some new resources that I could use in my classroom.
FABIAN – MANOR ISD (verified owner) –
It’s an interesting course
Rosanne – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
This course was well organized.
James – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –
Solid and smooth