Speaker: Betsy Butler, Course Creator
What do you hope teachers will take away from this course?
Betsy Butler: Hi, I'm Betsy Butler and I'm the course creator for 5325: Celebrating and Supporting Twice-Exceptional Learners and just as kind of a review, Twice-Exceptional learners are students who are identified as gifted, but also having some neurotypical traits. They might be on the autism spectrum or they might have ADHD or something else like along those lines. They could also have learning disabilities and this course caters to all of the above. It allows us to look at things like executive functioning. It allows us to look at things like self regulation. We can engage families in order to help identify learning challenges. This is a ton of information that is helpful to anybody who has worked with students who are twice diagnosed or twice designated, both if gifted along with a different other learning specific.
What do you love about this course?
Betsy Butler: What I really love about this course is all of the connections that it has to neurodiversity and making sure that you're celebrating kids assets instead of their deficits. And this course isn't an exception. I also really like that there are information involved that has to do with, that has to do with processing disorders, which oftentimes are the other part of that gifted designation. That's not something that I think you'll find in many other courses. But this is all about supporting that kid who is just, just wonderful in so many ways and really has very special gifts and superpowers to share with the world. And, I think that anything that does that is really recognizing the modern way of looking at teaching right now.
