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. Patti – PRESIDIO ISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent.

  2. teresa – PRESIDIO ISD (verified owner) –

    good

  3. Lizet – PRESIDIO ISD (verified owner) –

    Interesting course just more didactic

  4. Karla – PRESIDIO ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked it and was interesting.

  5. Doraly – PRESIDIO ISD (verified owner) –

    great

  6. Rebecca – PRESIDIO ISD (verified owner) –

    nice

  7. teresa – PRESIDIO ISD (verified owner) –

    more defintions

  8. Juan M – PRESIDIO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great

  9. Elizabeth – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed a scaffolded strategy that can help students get better at verbalizing their thoughts. I like that this strategy of mindsketching can be used at any age. It doesn’t feel like it will add a lot of time to planning (especially over the course of the 9 weeks of initial implementation.) I like that students are encouraged to draw to get their thinking going, but not draw for detail (if that makes sense.)

  10. Debra A. – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed the course. I liked the strategies presented on how to tranfer information into the long term memory.

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