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. Freida – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    This is an excellent course for helping all children to develop their verbal skills. It will also help teachers to learn to move new information into students’ long term memory. The presenter is very realistic about how much time this strategy takes in the classroom while explaining its value.

  2. Cynthia – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    quick and effective methods to improve learning, including ideas for sketches

  3. Elsa – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –

    Excellent presenter, great job modeling activities.

  4. Leticia – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative course.

  5. Amy – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked the in depth instruction about the connection between memory and verbal skills.

  6. Agatha – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    The mindsketching strategies are useful new tools for instruction that I can use with my students.

  7. Daizy – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    great training

  8. Stephanie – SWEENY ISD (verified owner) –

    Very easy to follow . Easy ideas for everyday teaching to build higher level thinking skills with all students.

  9. Norma – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –

    This course was very informative and gave you the tools needed to leave the session and be able to implement the strategies the next day in your own classroom.

  10. Kirsten – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    Lots of ideas that I will be able to use immediately.

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