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.
Carolyn – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Informative.
Bonnie – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I have been in gifted education for over 20 years and studied many books, articles, and written a published paper on the subject. Dr. Juntune taught me so much in this first class about the unique characteristics of the gifted. I have had the pleasure of listening to her before and eagerly anticipated this 30 hour training. It is excellent!
Erika – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the pacing and the examples that were given.
Alberto – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very motivating!
CELIA – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
great information
Jamie – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very motivating!!!
jennifer – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
I am a Sped Teacher with necessary 30 hours of training. There is nothing I don’t like about the course other than I already feel overwhelmed with beginning of the year needs AND having another thing added to my plate with meetings and working long days and weekends. I feel like the training has frequent interruptions for me just based on me trying to fit it in.
Holly – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
good information
Mikaela – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Elcuiana – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course was very informative. It helped me understand the important of differentiated learning and ways that I can provide differentiated learning to students. I also learned that not all gifted students are the same when it comes to teaching them.