Description
Use your inside voice. Zip your lips. Keep your seat in the seat. Ssssshhhhhh! As teachers, we are always looking for strategies to help keep our students voices and bodies under control. But many of those strategies wont work for students with a psychomotor overexcitability. in “Don’t Say Use Your Indoor Voice,” Sarah Wisemen offers tips for managing students’ incredible, boundless energy.
In this course, participants will:
- Develop a better understanding of psychomotor overexcitabilities
- Help students with psychomotor overexcitabilities harness their intensities by using classroom structures that respects their talents
- Provide these students with tools to navigate a variety of academic and social situations
Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
Presenter Bio
Sarah Wiseman, M.Ed., teaches G/T Integrated Language Arts in Frisco ISD. She also writes curriculum and presents professional development for G/T and social studies. Ms. Wiseman earned her bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Oklahoma and her Master of Education degree, specializing in G/T curriculum and instruction, from Southern Methodist University.
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting approaches for psychomotor students.
Brenda – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting.
Erica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
interesting ways to work with psychomotor students.
Maria I – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
interesting ways to keep them on task.
Deedy – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Loved this! I’m pretty sure she was describing me!!!
Adriana – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Good ideas!
Anna – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was a good course that gives insight about GT students that have overexcitable characteristics and how we can help them cope of feeling like they don’t fit within society’s “norm”.
Ernestina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
none
Theresa – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Informative
Megan – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful.