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.
LeNell – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I love the way she teaches. She gives real information, backs it up and mostly, you can feel her passion for the subject and reasons for wanting to get all of us to learn and embrace it.
Bridgett – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course makes you think about the gifted learners in the classroom differently and how we as educators can differentiate using different types of strategies that was talked about in the videos.
Michael – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Very well organized.
Keishia – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course is helpful and eye opening to what we as educators should be looking for to successfully meet the need of our gifted students.
Amanda – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Magdalena – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I am leanrning how to find gt studnets and traits they may have.
MARIA – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It’s a great course that truly allows you to see your gifted students as more than just intelligent. It allowed me to recognize the various levels of giftedness and how to differentiate for each type.
Gabriela – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
This course not only educates effective teaching for GT students but also helps to open your eyes on how to view all students’ needs in a better , more effective way.
Violeta – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
It is very interesting. I learned a lot.
Christin – LEANDER ISD (verified owner) –
This course is very informative. She speaks very clearly, explaining details of the gifted student in ways that are easy to understand and visualize. There are many comparisons to all types of students so that we, as teachers, can see the differences and begin to pinpoint the actual gifted vs the high achievers.