23-5315 Building Inclusive Classrooms: Lessons learned from Gifted Learners - Strengths and Sensitivities: Implications for Practice
Course blurb
Can we build inclusive classrooms where all learners needs are met? Arising from her new book ‘The Gifted Learner: How to Help’, Fidelma Healy Eames, PhD, MSc., BEd., argues that classrooms that respond to gifted learners’ needs can meet the needs of all learners.
She is delighted to offer this course to your Education Centre. Two and a half years in the making, she draws from research and practice informed by nineteen case studies with gifted learners ranging from 10 years – 58 years of age with learners represented at primary, second-level, third-level and adulthood. Her work draws on a total of 57 interviews conducted with students, parents and a ‘nominated’ teacher who gifted learners felt understood them.
This course spans a wide range of learners. It highlights how to identify, recognise, understand and support the gifted learner, the underachieving gifted learner and the twice-exceptional (2e) learner, a student with a gift and a disability. Each chapter contains a ‘how to help’ section for parents and teachers (see attached flyer for further information).
Intended Audience
Teachers, Parents, Guidance Counsellors, School Management
Expected Outcomes
The participants will be enabled to:
- Explore what giftedness is and how to identify a gifted learner drawing on an originally-designed framework for teachers and parents’ use.
- Identify fascinating differences between high achievers, gifted learners and creative thinkers.
- Recognise the gifted under-achiever and ways to better understand and support them.
- Identify and discuss the ‘twice-exceptional’ (2e) learner, a child with both a gift and a learning difficulty, how to better understand and support them.
- 5. Explore ways to accommodate gifted learners – Hear student voices highlight practical ways to understand and support learners, drawing on useful resources.
Webinar duration
1hr 15 mins
Time will be allowed for Questions.
Facilitator
Dr. Fidelma Healy Eames, PhD, MSc(Ed), BEd.,(Galway) has a long background in teaching, learning and teacher education. Her enduring interest is making learning easier and enabling young people to pursue meaningful, preferred futures. Passionate about supporting teachers and enabling learners to develop the mindset and skills to take ownership for their own learning, she is Director and Lead Educator with Study & Careers www.studyandcareers.ie
Author to ‘Switching on for Learning: A Student Guide to Exam & Career Success’, this has become a core text for teachers, parents and students interested in independent learning and career guidance. In 2020 she developed an online ‘learning to learn’ programme used across second-level schools. Newly-revised for 2022/23 based on teacher and student feedback, Free Previews are viewable at studyandcareers.thinkific.com
Course Details
| Course Start Date / Time | 10-10-2023 7:00 pm |
| Course End Date / Time | 10-10-2023 8:15 pm |
| Capacity | Unlimited |
| Fee | Free |
| Select Hours | 1.5 |
| Speaker | Dr. Fidelma Healy Eames |
| Course Format | Online |
| Location | Online |
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