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.
Jennifer – Pilot (verified owner) –
Ideas that can be immediately implemented into the classroom.
Cindy – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The sites provided were excellent.
ANTONIA – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent presentation. Gave me ideas I can implement in the classroom.
Don – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of good ideas to use in the classroom. As kids and the world in general is becoming much more technology driven, these are good things to use.
Shay – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
This was great!
Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very good ideas to implement in the classroom.
Veronica – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
A lot of technology options that you can choose from to use at your own pace.
Marly – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Lots of rapid fire suggestions which was great! If one of the resources wasn’t really going to work for me, I only had to wait a minute or two before she was introducing other ideas. I like how practical these resources are.
Brenda – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
good
Shaila – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great and informative training
Haley – LUBBOCK ISD (verified owner) –
Andi is always amazing and helpful.
Maricela – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great information
Cynthia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I gained some truly valuable resources that I will choose from to use next year!
Claudia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very good tools!
Danielle – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
5 stars
Ernestina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful to incorporate technology in the classroom without having to purchase anything.
Ernesto – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting tools to use in the classroom
Elinor – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Helpful
Liset – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Informative
Jennifer – NEWARK CITY (verified owner) –
Great course to learn about different resources and websites to take back to your classroom.
Amanda – 588 Co-op (verified owner) –
A lot of good ideas. Many are free!
Maria – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This is excellent, technology just became my best friend!
Christina – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
Nice collection of technology sites
Laura – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Wonderful! I loved how she said just to pick one thing to start with. Sometimes starting is the hardest part.
Kelli – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This is great! The presenter was engaging and fun to listen to.
Jacqueline – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting to see technology that works with 21st century skills of collaboration, creativity, communications, & critical thinking
kelly – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very informative!
Diana – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This course had awesome tools that can be used in the classroom. So many technology that can be a new way of learning and engaging to all students.
Idalia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent information
maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very Informative
Melissa – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of fun ideas that would help anyone start using technology more in their classrooms or expand what they are already using.
Joshua – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
good
Tracy – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
I love how this can all be incorporated without having 1:1 devices.
Kasey – PEARLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Shared lots of good websites, however, I’d love to see a full lesson using the 4Cs.
Marie – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I liked it but I wish the presenter had commented on which sites/resources were free and which ones were not.
Raquel – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very useful but, some of the tools have changed. Please update the training resources.
Jonathan – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Interesting presentation geared more towards elementary and maybe some middle school students. Not as applicable for high school.
Sonia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Good course
Samantha – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great information
Nancy – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great presenter ideas and information
Carolyn – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
Loved it. She’s is very passionate about teaching and using technology, but is also realistic about how to make it work if you don’t have many devices.
Victoria – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome class!!
Marla – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Great presentation with tons of resources
Jorge – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave me other types of applications that I had seen before, but I never tried them since they seem useless. Some of the applications seem more useful based on the examples shown.
Leticia – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for incorporating technology in the classroom.
Michelle – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Great technology resources
Cynthia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Helpful resources.
Janice – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner) –
Great resources with meaningful ways to incorporate into the classroom.
Lindsey – Springfield City School District (verified owner) –
This was quite insightful and helpful for working with my gifted language learners because I can challenge them while still catering to all students involved.
Maria – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
This has been the most meaningful course for me at this time!