Improving Verbal Skills for Children from Low S.E.S. Backgrounds

$20.00

Presenter: Birdie Chesanek
Core Area: Creativity and Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1

Negative stereotypes are often associated with those raised in generational poverty. Of all these stereotypes, one of the most damaging in education today is that students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds are less likely to be gifted. Low verbal skills often mask true giftedness. It’s time to get past the stereotypes and begin uncovering giftedness in our low-SES students.

Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.

© Texas Association for the Gifted & Talented, Austin, Texas 2020

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Description

In this course, Birdie Chesanek offers hands-on ideas to help bridge the gap between verbal and nonverbal intelligence for children from low-SES backgrounds. In this make-and-take session, Ms. Chesanek reviews educational issues that may be present when teaching students from low-SES backgrounds, explores strategies to bridge the gap between verbal and nonverbal intelligence, and then provides plans for using those strategies in various content areas.

In this 1-hour course, you will learn to:

  • Build academic knowledge
  • Encourage learning equality in the classroom
  • Implement verbal learning strategies
  • Build working and long-term memory

Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.

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306 reviews for Improving Verbal Skills for Children from Low S.E.S. Backgrounds

  1. Juana – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    Good for developing vocabulary and middle memory.

  2. christopher – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    Great Course

  3. Kelly – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    The quiz for this course is horrible! It does not ask questions in the manner with which it was shared!

  4. Rocio – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    This course gave me a new insight of how to reach all of my students regardless of their social economic background.

  5. Shannon – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    This training wasn’t what I expected. I thought it would include some shorter term strategies. It was hard to stay focused.

  6. Delfina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Very Informative

  7. stephanie – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    good information

  8. Kellie – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –

    I like how this training explained different ways our brains acquired knowledge and then gave a practical usable skill for educators to use in their classrooms.

  9. Jessie – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    Very good! Enjoyed will implement in my lessons

  10. Analia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was very informative and it focused on how we can better service the S.E.S students in the classroom.

  11. Maribel – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –

    great ideas

  12. Esther – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course seemed focused on early grade levels. What about Upper grade students who haven’t developed the middle memory? What activities might be more adapted to the upper elementary grades?

  13. Sylvia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    It was okay

  14. Victoriano – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    Very profound way of compartmentalizing the course!

  15. Jacqueline – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –

    It had excellent ideas. I wish she had been able to get to the section about memory and some of the staregies for improving memory.

  16. yvonne – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    I thought this course was good but sometimes confusing to understand.

  17. Rosaura – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    5 STARS

  18. Shannon – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed learning more about this topic and how I can do simple things to help our students.

  19. Olga – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –

    Wonderful training

  20. Judith – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    Very interesting information about students from low SES backgrounds.

  21. Stacey – Region 17 ESC (verified owner) –

    Good ideas! I like the mindsketching!

  22. Veronica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    This was an awesome course!

  23. Angelique – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Great course.

  24. Cecilia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Awesome

  25. Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    It shows how to improve verbal skills for children from Low S.E.S by using a series of activities such as Mind sketching and connecting it to working memory and long term memory . Great activity to use in classs.

  26. Rogelio – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Mind sketching is a fabulous tool to strengthen the middle memory of our students.

  27. Maria – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    I learned new strategies for using mindsketching

  28. Sarah – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –

    This was a lot of vocabulary.

  29. gina – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –

    WOW so much to learn

  30. Lynda – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked the concepts.

  31. Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Very helpful understanding why children from low S.E.S. backgrounds have difficulty verbalizing what they know.

  32. Samuel. – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    It is very useful for improving student’s academic skills.

  33. LINDA – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    I did not gain very much from this course.

  34. Blanca – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    Good information

  35. Bryan – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great, Thanks!

  36. Laura – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    Very useful information.

  37. Mary – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative. I wish I could share this video with my team.

  38. Gloria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Really good ideas

  39. Adriana – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great Presentation

  40. Rosa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent strategies to improve our students verbal skills and cognitive skills.

  41. Raquel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    great

  42. Cindy – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Very hands on and engaging.

  43. Cynthia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    Great training! I feel that this is a great strategy to use to help our students improve ther verbal skills. I think it will be very beneficial for bilingual students when the time comes to test for TELPAS.

  44. Indhira – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    Great course.

  45. Terrie – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas using mind sketching

  46. Linda – HUGHES SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    Great techniques to use for long term memory connections.

  47. Melida – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Enjoyed the mindsketching strategy

  48. Lorena – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative and excellent activities to increase verbal learning

  49. Jennifer – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    great ideas about mindsketching and building middle memory

  50. nora – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    interesting

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