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.
Cleo – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
By taking this course you can see why students act the way they act in class. This class is very informative and helpful.
Carole – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
This course revealed something I did not know before. While I experience talkers, and over-excited kids regularly, I did not realize there was an actual name for this. Nor did I realize there are actual strategies to use to turn this tendancy into a positive trait.
Maricruz – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –
This course was well presented, she had great information and strategies to implement for those Psychomotor students and not.
Rosa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Well develop good pace
Jacqueline – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great practical applications and first hand experience from someone with Psychomotor Overexcitability.
CORA – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
This coarse reminded me of the need to provide opportunites for these students to harness their energy.
Laura – Jesus Chapel (verified owner) –
It gives the difference between ADHD and the psychomotor is, and how they are both can be misdiagonised.
Cecilia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Erin – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
Great information and tips to help with these types of students in the classroom.
Sabrina – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
I like that she gives simple strategies that are easy to incorporate in the classroom.