Description
Busy-bags are all the rage with mothers of young children–they’re just a collection of activities that are easy to grab, low-prep, and able to amuse little hands and minds for a few minutes. Lisa Van Gemert’s five-minute opportunity strategies are a “bag of tricks” for educators to pull from, but rather than keep the student occupied, the strategies are meant to help you build a relationship and connection with them in those rare unfilled minutes.
This course will help you:
- Get strategies to build a connection in a short amount of time
- Understand the importance of trust for G/T students
- Use music to create smoother transitions in your class
Amy – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –
Ms. Van Gemert presented useful ideas.
ROUMALDO – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Enjoyed the new activity ideas.
Dawn – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course offered many new ideas to try in the classroom. None of the activities take a large amount of time, they are inexpensive, and they can be used with all students, especially when they need to find ways to calm themselves or reduce their stress.
chris – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Corinne – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
I LOVE the ideas presented. It also helped me to realize that these tools and strategies aren’t just useful in sped classrooms.
Karla – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Love the different ideas.
Robin – HILLSBORO ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great ideas to help students.
Lesa – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
So many great ideas!
Roberta – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The ideas presented were practical and can be used in the classroom with minimum cost and preparation time.
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
So interesting love her energy.
Liza – MONAHANS-WICKETT-PYOTE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas that can be used both at the elementary and secondary level.
Brenda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas were offered on how to build relationships with students, how to calm students, and what to do when you have short spurts of time.
Brandi – Pilot (verified owner) –
Many great ideas to use! Some I am already familiar with, and others will be very helpful in my elementary classroom. Seems like it would work well across all grade levels, however.
Karen – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Best course I have taken so far!!! Great ideas!!
Robyn – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This was amazing! So many great ideas to use in the classroom!
Darlene – NEW BREMEN LOCAL (verified owner) –
Ideas are easy to apply and can be used by a variety of students in your classroom.
Lynda – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
There were some great ideas that would enhance SEL as well as helping GT students.
Susan – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course.
Khara – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
There are so many great ideas presented in this class! I’m eager to try them out in my classroom.
Vickie – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Loved this! So many great ideas
Anna – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
These are useful strategies in class.
John – DAYTON CITY (verified owner) –
It was very informative.
Melissa – Pilot (verified owner) –
Lots of ideas you can implement right away. Very practical.
Lori – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
It gives many great ideas I have never thought about for short time ideas.
Margaret – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
I felt that this course provides many great ideas to use in your classroom when you only have a few minutes.
Jodi – LANCASTER CITY (verified owner) –
I love the amount of strategies that are presented. I was able to come away with quite a few that I know I will implement in my room.
Kimberly – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I feel this is great but geared more to elementary. I picked it as it said secondary.
Angela – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
This was an amazing course!!! This is a must have for first year teachers.
Stephanie – NEWARK CITY (verified owner) –
Lots of ideas that you can implement
CHANDRA L – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
BEST. TRAINING. EVER…. I loved this.
Anne – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
I really like the multiple ideas to use in just a few minutes with kids. Many of these ideas are activities to have in your classroom, but it would be nice to see pictures of your classroom to picture just how some of these ideas are used, practically.
Cheryl – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great class. A ton of easy to do hands on activity. So often workshops are theory based. Those are good. But she gives many things to do in the classroom. Most are inexpensive and will be easy to implement.
Iris Avora – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This was a fantastic training on helping to calm the student and great stress relievers.
Laura – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I thought it was great, but many of the ideas require money and storage capabilities.
Diana – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Good ideas presented
Daisy – HILLSBORO ISD (verified owner) –
She’s very easy to listen to. She’s fast and to the point. She doesn’t stumble on her words and has a LOT of real life examples of how she uses these strategies.
Jennifer – FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Lisa always has new innovative ideas that are ready to use in the classroom.
Stacia – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –
simple and easy ideas!
ABYGAIL – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Love all the ideas!
Nozuko – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
good course
Rebecca – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I truly loved this session. It offered a wide-range of activities to meet the emotional needs of my students.
Yolanda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this session i would love to see her in person and present!! all her ideas were enlightening and I am definitely going to use
Kindra – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
The presenter offered a large toolbox of creative ideas to use with all students that take only a few minutes to use and will help students calm down, refocus, feel more confident and improve the teacher-student relationship.
IVONNE – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great sponge activity ideas to use in class.
Adriana – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
It was really great. She had so many neat ideas that can be put together pretty easily and don’t cost too much.
Tarah – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great topic, great ideas!
Stephen – FAIRBANKS LOCAL (verified owner) –
Many useful strategies to calm your students.
Lucy – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Loved the ideas!
Cynthia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Easy to implement ideas presented.
Irene – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This session was full of ideas. Great ideas. It was very interesting