Description
In this 6-hour course, Lisa Van Gemert, highlights the importance of differentiated instruction in meeting the needs of every student with a focus on gifted students. She presents practical classroom strategies and draws a clear distinction between differentiation and “more-ferentiation” (or simply offering more work to gifted students). This course includes practical applications and downloadable handouts.
Broken up into five modules, Ms. Van Gemert provides in-depth information on:
- Guiding principles and key ideas for implementation
- Tactics for creating an environment for differentiation
- Strategies for content (including depth, complexity and student interest)
- The learning process (including options for tiering instruction)
Gloria – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
Great course, very interesting, great resources, great explanation, very detailed.
Alexandra – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Michelle – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
GOod tool
Joel – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Much better than previous GT trainings that felt out of date.
Winter – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
I will for sure be able to use the strategies I learned in the course in my classroom!
Heather – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
5 star- I appreciate the way the presentation was organized and segmented into chunks of content.
yadira – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course! Very informative.
Emily – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative! Provided lots of examples I would use in my classroom.
SHERRY – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this training because it gave me links to sites I can start using right away.
Alissa – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
This was amazing – I came away with so many different ideas to implement in my classroom. I had to take notes! Thank you.
Kelly – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
This training was fantastic! I have so many good resources and ideas now . . . and I thought I was good at differentiating!! With some of the insight I received today, I feel inspired to be more creative and to try to infuse more technology into my daily lessons.
Hannah – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Amy – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
This course offered great ideas to help not only engage all students, but really give ideas on how to differentiate the needs of each individual student.
Alina – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed the resources that were provided. As well as the additional tools and websites available for our students
Tricia – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
A lot of good information
John – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very thorough. I really enjoyed the presentations.
Deanna – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
Practical
Jaime – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It’s great!
Elizabeth – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed learning how to effectively differentiate learning for my students.
Heidi – COLUMBIA-BRAZORIA ISD (verified owner) –
As always, this teacher gives great ideas!!
William – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
This by far is the best presentation I have ever participated in over the topic of differentiation.
Monica – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for virtual and distance learning.
Leticia – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative to help differentiate lessons and help students better learn at their level of need.
Melissa Marie – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Evelyn – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
The presenter was great and had many things she shared (technology) that I can integrate. Wish she would make a new presentation and share of better ways and more technology to integrate now with remote learning.
Nathan – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Effective for specific differentiation procedures.
Tiffany – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Well laid out and presented.
Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting and filled with new useful websites
Ashley – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
It was very helpful.
Breanne – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
I learned several useful things, but I was frustrated with the fact that it was almost entirely lecture based.
Diana – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course reminds you why we are teachers. It also reminds us we cannot use time as an excuse to not differentiate for our students. It is not as difficult as it seems.
Justin – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
It was a great course, gave me a lot of different and new ideas
Mariah – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great course with useful strategies.
Felipe – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome information and very well presented.
David – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
I really liked that she had many tools, apps, programs, websites…. that allow you options for differentation.
Martin – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Cynthia – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
It was a great resource for learning differentiating strategies.
Kristen – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the content and strategies of this course. However, the resources given throughout it are outdated.
Ayiza – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Stephen – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
There are some great strategies but presenter didn’t address lack of time for planning to implement.
Kelsi – LUBBOCK ISD (verified owner) –
It is really helpful and packed full of information, there were a few times when I was confused due to the presenter not being direct with her points but overall a great training.
Jesus – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Provides good information and resources.
Nora – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It’s great!
Emily – LUBBOCK ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave me tools and ideas that I wouldn’t have thought about or looked at in a variety of ways.
Amy – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
It was good, but needs to be more direct.
Bailey – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Suzanne – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
it was great.
Glenda – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I think every teacher should be familiar with differentiated instruction, not only limited to GT teachers.
irma – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course!!! Just an idea…What about creating a differentiation chat sheet where we can have a one page resource to use when planning lessons??? I find we learned a lot of excellent information…I would like to see everything in one compact location…thanks
Candace – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot of wonderful ideas on differentiating in the classroom and I’m excited to use them in my own class.