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SENG Webinar Event |
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George Betts, Ed.D.
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Details:
Date: June 4, 2009
Time:
5:30 PM Pacific
6:30 PM Mountain
7:30 PM Central
8:30 PM Eastern
Location: Participate at home or office using your computer.
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The Autonomous Learner Model is one of the leading models used in the field of gifted education. It was created by-and for-gifted kids. The flexible design of this model allows teachers, learners and parents to use this model in the school and in the home. The major goals are to meet the cognitive, emotional, and social needs of the gifted and talented and to facilitate the total growth as independent, self-directed learners. Not only is this webinar for teachers, parents and counseling professionals, but for students who seek to be autonomous learners.
George Betts is a professor of special education in the area of gifted and talented education at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, and former teacher/facilitator at Arvada West High School, Arvada, Colorado. He is the director of Center for the Education and Study of the Gifted, Talented, and Creative and the director of the Summer Enrichment Program at the University. He received the 1990-91 Distinguished Service Award from NAGC and was honored with the Life-Time Achievement Award by the Colorado Association for the Gifted and Talented in 1996. In 2003, George was selected as one of the 50 Most Influential Leaders in the Field of Gifted Education by the National Association for Gifted Children. In 2006, he was awarded the M. Lucile Harrison Award for Professional Excellence, the highest award presented to a professor at the University of Colorado.
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