Description
Ms. Van Gemert suggests that the best way to add rigor to gifted education is to focus on the quality of work rather than the quantity. This way, gifted students will be challenged academically without having to do lots of extra work.
In this 1-hour course presented by Gifted Guru, you’ll learn the best ways to add rigor to your gifted instruction.
The course is full of strategies you can use in your classroom today like:
- Rubrics for rigor
- Chart examination
- The writer’s toolbox
- Magical musical tour
- Storybird
- And much more
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.
Cassandra – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
This is one of the best courses I have taken on this site. I have actionable take-aways that I can (and will) use in my classroom NOW. Excellent all around!
Jordan – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –
I walked away with many ready-to-use tools, resources, and lessons! Very applicable to the high school ELA classroom.
John – OLENTANGY LOCAL (verified owner) –
Practical and easy to understand strategies for the ELA classroom.
Edward – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –
A lot of useful strategies that I plan on using in the future.
Kim – St Marys City Schools (verified owner) –
This is a great course that offers many outstanding ideas.
Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Julie – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great resources!
Stacey – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Useful information
Amy – NORDONIA HILLS CITY (verified owner) –
Great ideas to increase rigor in my ela classroom.
Christina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
WOW!!! This is an entire wealth of information for teachers.
It is like going into an ice-cream shop and wanting this and that and this and that.
Thank you for sharing the wealth of information.