Description
One of the most important foundational aspects of working with gifted students is developing a deep understanding of them. What motivates them? How do they think? And how do they learn? Joyce Juntune, Ph.D. answers these questions and more in this 6-hour course. Dr. Juntune focuses on the nature and needs of gifted students, including the characteristics, social-emotional needs, and programming options. Understanding your gifted students is the starting point for preparing them for life-long success.
In this course you’ll learn to:
- Understand sources of energy in gifted students
- Identify indicators of giftedness
- Differentiate between high achievers and gifted students
- Understand statistical distribution
- Identify the four types of gifted students
- And much more!
This course is aligned with 2016 ODE Teacher Competencies d, e, and NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.5.
Dr. 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. Dr. Juntune earned her master’s degree in curriculum instruction from St. Cloud University and her Ph.D. in educational psychology from Texas A&M University.
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.
Olivia – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This is very helpful to understand the multiple intelligences in the classroom, a way to keep students engaged is to understand their cognitive and emotional level in order to differentiate lesson plans that are beneficial based on the student’s needs.
Byron – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
It was highly informative.
Zachary – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course! The content was engaging and helpful.
Chelsea – FRIENDSWOOD ISD (verified owner) –
Speaker was very engaging, knowledgeable, and provided great advice for teaching gifted students.
Teresita – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course!
Willie – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was excellent in that it gave me the tools necessary to properly identify, classify, & instruct gifted students and hopefully be successful in the AP classroom.
Debra – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course. It made reflect on my own children as well as those I have taught.
Emily – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
I’m assuming this will be anonymous …. There were several things Dr.J said that I don’t agree with, directly contradicts previous professors or researchers I’ve learned from or read about, or that weren’t supported with evidence. Also her mindset is very much of a previous generation (for ex: she said she thinks there’s no reason to put race on a form because it’s not a direct correlation to SES but shes not taking into account how race is going to affect their home life, opinions about school, safety at school, and much more). Someone younger with fresher ideas would be preferred. Also I need evidence for her many claims (like “her saying that doing an assignment the kid doesn’t like but doing it for the teacher is intrinsic” well I believe that’s extrinsic). Just too much opinion for me.
Jessica – EANES ISD (verified owner) –
This was very informative on going through the different needs of gifted students.
Kimberly – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative. I learned things I did not know before.