Improving Verbal Skills for Children from Low S.E.S. Backgrounds

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Presenter: Birdie Chesanek
Core Area: Creativity and Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1

Negative stereotypes are often associated with those raised in generational poverty. Of all these stereotypes, one of the most damaging in education today is that students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds are less likely to be gifted. Low verbal skills often mask true giftedness. It’s time to get past the stereotypes and begin uncovering giftedness in our low-SES students.

Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.

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Description

In this course, Birdie Chesanek offers hands-on ideas to help bridge the gap between verbal and nonverbal intelligence for children from low-SES backgrounds. In this make-and-take session, Ms. Chesanek reviews educational issues that may be present when teaching students from low-SES backgrounds, explores strategies to bridge the gap between verbal and nonverbal intelligence, and then provides plans for using those strategies in various content areas.

In this 1-hour course, you will learn to:

  • Build academic knowledge
  • Encourage learning equality in the classroom
  • Implement verbal learning strategies
  • Build working and long-term memory

Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.

Presenter Bio

Birdie Chesanek is a native of El Paso, Texas and graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1990. She taught adult E.S.L. classes at El Paso Community College for five years and has taught at Oran Roberts Elementary School for the last fifteen years. Since 2009, she has received training by Dr. Joyce Juntune of Texas A & M University on strategies to bridge the gap between verbal and non-verbal skills for students from low S.E.S. backgrounds. She joined Dr. Juntune at the TAGT conference in Fort Worth, Texas as a co-presenter. She is also a presenter for El Paso ISD for the Gifted and Talented program. 

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294 reviews for Improving Verbal Skills for Children from Low S.E.S. Backgrounds

  1. Judith – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    Very interesting information about students from low SES backgrounds.

  2. Olga – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –

    Wonderful training

  3. Shannon – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed learning more about this topic and how I can do simple things to help our students.

  4. Rosaura – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    5 STARS

  5. yvonne – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    I thought this course was good but sometimes confusing to understand.

  6. Jacqueline – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –

    It had excellent ideas. I wish she had been able to get to the section about memory and some of the staregies for improving memory.

  7. Victoriano – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    Very profound way of compartmentalizing the course!

  8. Sylvia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    It was okay

  9. Esther – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course seemed focused on early grade levels. What about Upper grade students who haven’t developed the middle memory? What activities might be more adapted to the upper elementary grades?

  10. Maribel – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –

    great ideas

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