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.
Vanessa – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
Very great resources.
Deanna – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
Great class! Super helpful with a ton of takeaways!
Shelby – LUBBOCK ISD (verified owner) –
This training was informational and beneficial to me teaching GT students in my classroom.
Renee – LUBBOCK ISD (verified owner) –
Class gave so many strategies to add to the repertoire.
Kelsi – LUBBOCK ISD (verified owner) –
I truly enjoy the content that we are learning and the format of this course was easy to use.
Gabriela – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
I really loved this course. It provided me with so many good ideas to use in my classroom and I felt lucky because this is the first training that gives examples of activities to use in a foreign language classroom! She was very knowledgeable and I feel like I took a lot away from this course.
Willie – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent activities.
Nicholas – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
There were good strategies explained for teachers to bring new energy to their classrooms.
Joy – LUBBOCK ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed learning about the different teaching strategies I can use in the future.
Sylvia – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Informational