Description
Great training is the foundation for great teaching. That is why we developed the “30-Hour Core for Educators of the Gifted and Talented,” taught by Joyce Juntune, Ph.D. This course provides the foundational knowledge necessary for working with gifted students. You will learn what intelligences is, how the brain works, how to develop creativity in your students, how to spot a gifted student, and so much more.
This package is 30 hours of training, covering core topics including:
- Nature & Needs of GT (6 Hour)
- Social and Emotional (6 Hour)
- Developing Creative Thinking (6 Hour)
- Differentiation of Curriculum (6 Hour)
- Screening, Assessment, and Identification (6 Hour)
Presenter Bio
Dr. Joyce Juntune is a renowned consultant, trainer, professor, and lecturer with more than 45 years of experience in the field of education. She is an instructional associate professor at Texas A&M University, and she teaches graduate-level courses in her expert areas of intelligence, child and adolescent development, educational psychology, giftedness, and creativity. She has focused the majority of her career on the areas of intelligence and gifted and talented education. Dr. Juntune has served as the executive director for the National Association for Gifted Children and the Institute for Applied Creativity at Texas A&M University.
Maria – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Would love love to take her course face to face.
Donna – CHARDON LOCAL (verified owner) –
This was a great course with actual take away activities I can use in the classroom right away.
Reynaldo – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course offers a lot of useful insights.
EVELYN – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course help me to understand Gifted students
Lillian – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Sarah – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Really makes you see the possible issues or faults in your identification of gifted students.
Claudia – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful for developing critical thinkers.
Jessica – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the course and learning more about how GT minds work
Deja – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome!
Mary – FORT BEND ISD (verified owner) –
It is 10PM and I am taking my 30 (more like 40) hours of GT training at 3-4 hour stretches a night. What I like: The presenter is passionate and engaging, however, my family has been listening to the training (I am on the computer in the living room) with me. They are also all teachers, and every single one of them finds the presenter’s voice and presentation style to be annoying and/or pedantic. The information is organized well. Use the microscopic Resources button at the top of the white ResponsiveLearning screen to download the resources from this presentation for future digestion. Which brings me to what I don’t like: This is an administration thing, but taking these courses back to back is exhausting. If we were to do this to our students they and their parents would be screaming at admin for our heads. The saddest part is that it is great information, but I am too fatigued by the volume of information to properly digest it. Also, the assessments are a joke. They are either written responses that nobody will ever read, or multiple choice/ true/false that you can take over and over until you get it right. Once you figure this out, it is even harder to pay attention, knowing that the assessments don’t actually quantify your learning. A better method for assessment, if it had to be multiple choice, would be to be presented with several lesson plans, units, activities, etc. and be asked to choose which one best fits the concept being learned. Then, after you’ve made your selection, be given a few lines to explain and defend your answer.