Description
In days past, employers were impressed by graduates who had impressive stores of knowledge. But as the Internet and search engines have leveled the playing field, students need to focus on another set of skills. Do you know the top skills employers will be seeking from your students? Andi McNair has made it easy to make meaningful use of technology to teach your gifted students marketable lifelong skills.
In this course, you will learn to:
- Focus on the skills employers want from grads
- Use technology in innovative ways
- Avoid common time-wasting uses of technology
- Use apps and websites that engage gifted minds
Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
This course is aligned with 2016 ODE Teacher Competencies a, b, c, f, g and NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.2.
Presenter Bio
Andi McNair currently teaches Gifted and Talented students at a small rural school at Bosqueville ISD in Texas. She has been a teacher for over a decade, teaching 4th/5th grade math before moving into gifted education. As a parent of gifted children, she is a strong advocate for gifted education. She regularly speaks at TAGT (Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented) and other conferences, particularly sharing her passion for innovative education. Andi is married to her high school sweetheart. They have three children and live in Waco, TX.
Rebecca – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This training contains many beneficial resources for class implementation.
Deborah – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
This was an idea packed presentation with lots of great ideas for any classroom.
CRYSTAL M – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Great information and useful resources were shared in this course.
Veronica – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
There were so may beneficial websites and apps to use I like how they were organized by topic such as collaboration and creativity.
Jennifer – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
Great tools, but it goes very fast.
Celeste – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
yes
Michael – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Great course.
Sandra – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
It was a GREAT presentation. The presenter shared many engaging online platforms that our students will enjoy using to create presentations, collaborate with their peers and communicate with their teacher using Remind or Edmodo.
Claudia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I like all the resources that were presented, and I like how we can immediately start using them.
Dianna – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
There were so many ways that technology was introduced that can be used all students in all students in all grade levels.