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.
Anica – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Hayley – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune is super energetic and engaging speaker. I enjoyed the way that she merged her deep understanding of the Nature and Needs of GT kids (after MANY years of research/study/practice) with actual real life stories from her teaching career. This was a fun and engaging course and I highly recommend it!
Kiana – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot about gifted students and how to work with them.
Laura – HUNTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great and engaging course!
Arizbeth – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I would recommend for this course to have an annual review so that us teachers can remember how gifted students can be misunderstood. Even if they failed the GT test you can still have gifted students this can be beneficial to students.
Kathaleen – HUNTSVILLE ISD – TEXAS ONLINE PREP (verified owner) –
I felt like I learned a great deal and found out through teaching I have done some of these things in my classroom. I enjoyed listening to Dr. Juntune. Very interesting.
Michael – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Well done. This was my first course that I’ve taken that was presented by Dr. Juntune.
Lauren – LEANDER ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed the speaker. (I am not an online learner though)
Valerie – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great info. All teachers should take this.
Meghan – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Easy to follow and informative!