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.
Matthew – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The information is easy to understand.
Elizabeth – MARIETTA CITY (verified owner) –
This course was informative and interesting. It helped me understand how to make connections and learning meaningful for my first group of accelerated students.
Jacqueline – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner) –
Valuable and well thought out information that is backed up by real world experience.
Della – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of information.
Sylvia – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Learned great information about gifted learners. Main thing is know their interests!!!
Justin – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot; it was well put together and the material was very interesting.
Erica – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
It’s been several years since I’ve taken a foundational course in GT, and I’m so happy that it’s different! I loved being able to apply what I learned during the modules!
San Juanita – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative. It was a good refresher course.
Fernanda – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was great! She explains things in a great way and gave so many new ideas.
Brittany – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the presenter, and the information. I prefer not to learn in this fashion but that’s a personal preference.