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.
Joy – MARION ISD (verified owner) –
This training helped me identify characteristics of
Hayley – SAN ANGELO ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very lengthy, but there was some good information that came from it!
Robin – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
This course is very helpful in understanding the verbal and non-verbal students.
Vanessa – NORTH EAST ISD (verified owner) –
I have a much better understanding of the needs of my gifted students.
Cherryl – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
Informative
Naomi – SAN ANGELO ISD (verified owner) –
I feel this course was very informative and has given me a different perspective as to how I can differentiate my instruction for GT students in my class.
Andrea – MIAMI TRACE LOCAL (verified owner) –
I learned a lot about gifted children during this training. This helped me identify some specifics steps that I need to take in my classroom, as well as steps my school districts needs to take, in order for us to better serve our gifted students.
Laura – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
very informational!
Elsie – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I really liked this course. It shared a lot of information that will be very helpful to me in my classroom.
LILIA – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed the videos.