Motivating Underachievers Using Response to Intervention and Differentiated Instruction

How do you inspire 'unmotivated' kids? In this course, you will be part of an engaging workshop from Carolyn Coil. Exploring underachiever patterns and prototypes, illustrated through student profiles drawn from Carolyn's real life experiences, you will learn to identify the underachievers in your classroom, including the gifted students and those identified for special education. Along the way, you will be exposed to nine specific student learning preferences. Using a combination of both differentiated instruction and the Response to Intervenion (RTI) system, you will learn to help your students achieve success through employing targeted intervention strategies, with the key being to monitor progress. Upon completion of this course, you will feel prepared with differentiation strategies and interventions you can use in the classroom immediately.

View these short segments from the course:

Segment 1: Carolyn Coil Introduction

Segment 2: Snippet from the first topic - Underachievement Prototypes and RTI

Carolyn Coil

Carolyn Coil, who earned her Ed.D in Educational Leadership at the University of Southern Florida, is an internationally known speaker, author, trainer, consultant and educator. Dr. Coil works with teachers, parents and students offering practical strategies for raising student achievement, differentiating curriculum, implementing a variety of assessment strategies, and dealing with the problems and challenges associated with preparing ourselves and our children for living and working in the 21st Century. Dr. Coil has worked in the field of education and training for over 30 years. She currently teaches courses in gifted and talented education and does workshops for schools and school districts on a wide variety of topics. She has been an adjunct professor at several different universities and has worked in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Bermuda, the Marshall Islands, Spain, Germany, Ecuador, Croatia, and South Korea.