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.
Azul – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great strategies to identify and understand GT students.
Carey – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative. It helped me to see what gifted students need and made me thing about what they were getting in schools.
Joseph – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was actually very useful and offered many strategies you can implement immediately.
Joseph – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I think the course is in formative and well done.
Robert – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune did a great job explaining
Screening, Assessment, and Identification of the Gifted.
Candida – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
It was extremely informative and useful.
Staci – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
This professional development had ideas that I could take back to school and implement immediately.
Dominique – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
A great way to cover what makes a student gifted and how we can approach them.
Nicole – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative. Excellent.
Kelly – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
The document links no longer work, much of the information (especially the linking between poverty and intelligence was offensively outdated), and though I could tell the presenter was very passionate, the presentation itself felt lacking.