Description
Ohio is a state with a diverse range of students, but studies are showing that not all students are getting their educational needs met. There are huge discrepancies between services being provided to different categories of students, especially in the area of Ohio’s gifted student population.
In this course, educator Dr. Colleen Boyle dives into the reasons behind the lack of support for these students and gives practical ideas to bridge the gap that you can start using in your classroom today.
After taking this course, you will have the tools you need to:
- Describe the diverse nature of Ohio’s student population
- Recognize the unique challenges of gifted student identification
- Implement strategies for improving gifted student identification
- Address the needs of diverse gifted learners
ODE Competency: e
NAGC Standards: 1.1, 1.2, 2.3, 4.1
Click here for a leader’s guide created by the Ohio Association for the Gifted and Talented.
Alison – CIRCLEVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Good suggestions to help better access the subgroups of your district.
Tricia – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
Great information about the 5 Underrepresented Populations.
Aaron – CIRCLEVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
The course help me to better understand the different groups for giftedness.
Nicholas – CIRCLEVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Very helpful!
Erin – CIRCLEVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
This one was very helpful because I took a realistic look at what our student population actually looks like rather than how they are perceived.
Randy – CIRCLEVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
good information about gifted students
Matthew – CIRCLEVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
This course provided some help and ideas to use in the classroom.
Louis – CIRCLEVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Very good.
Kimberly – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I enjoyed it
Madeleine – NORTHRIDGE LOCAL (verified owner) –
The course was beneficial in focusing on groups that are not paid much attention to.
Julie – CARLISLE LOCAL (verified owner) –
Eye opening to the bias of testing.
David – NORTHRIDGE LOCAL (verified owner) –
Very well presented with all areas covered.
David – NORTHRIDGE LOCAL (verified owner) –
I liked this course.
Nancy – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Relevant!
Lidia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative information.
Tonia – Centerburg Local (verified owner) –
OK
Ashley – BENJAMIN LOGAN LOCAL (verified owner) –
Okay
Becky – Centerburg Local (verified owner) –
There is a lot of information in this course that helps us to be able to identify some of the challenges we could face in identifying gifted students.
Erin – Centerburg Local (verified owner) –
Format easy to follow
Karen – Centerburg Local (verified owner) –
I liked the breakdown of subgroups, and recommendations (both overall and by subgroup) were quite practical.
Theodora – Fredericktown Local (verified owner) –
The presenter was very knowledgeable about EL students and how to best work with them to identify them as gifted.
Tina – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
Maybe, I am just lucky to work with great people, but I have never met a teacher that judges students superficially and found the constant teacher bashing in this course to be inaccurate and inappropriate.
Tabitha – WESTERN BROWN LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course was very informative.
Elizabeth – WESTERN BROWN LOCAL (verified owner) –
The class looks at different groups of students in Ohio.
Kristi – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
It is very hard for me to focus when I am not in the same room as the speaker.
Jenny – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
It was knowledgeable about diverse learners.
Nicole – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
It was informative.
Pam – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
It was informative.
REGINA – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
Lots of good information and recommendations.
kelly – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
very good
Mary – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
Very informative
Debby – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
Good information
Amy – WESTERN BROWN LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course provided a lot of information.
Rhonda – WESTERN BROWN LOCAL (verified owner) –
Good course.
Michael – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
The course was very informative.
Ashleigh – DAYTON CITY (verified owner) –
It was very informative.
Natasha – WESTERN BROWN LOCAL (verified owner) –
Easy to follow and understand.
Allyson – WESTERN BROWN LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course presented new information to me. It also helped me to see the importance of gifted education and begin to understand how to help students gain access to it as a classroom teacher.
Lisa – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
presenter is easy to listen to and very informative about the subject
Abigail – FAYETTEVILLE-PERRY LOCAL (verified owner) –
It was a good intro to gifted representation in Ohio.
Kathy – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Highly informative and relevant for all teachers.
Angela – PIQUA CITY (verified owner) –
This course provided good basic knowledge about Ohio’s diverse learners.
Jennifer – DAYTON CITY (verified owner) –
I loved the section on Els
Nicole – WESTERN BROWN LOCAL (verified owner) –
Really interesting and causes one to check their perspective/biases in certain areas.
Michele – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
no comment
Kathryn – WESTERN BROWN LOCAL (verified owner) –
Good overview of populations that may be underrepresented in our gifted programs and how to identify and service them.
Katie – FAYETTEVILLE-PERRY LOCAL (verified owner) –
This was a well prepared course that was full of good information
Barbara – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
It was informational.
Emily – WESTERN BROWN LOCAL (verified owner) –
Good information- but just an overview. There was not a lot of “meat” to this course.
LoAnn – FAYETTEVILLE-PERRY LOCAL (verified owner) –
I thought this was a great over view of issues and suggestions to providing gifted services to our students.