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.
Sarahi – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I believe it has done what it was supposed to: inform me on the subject.
Maria – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Great course and great speaker!
Braden – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
This course is well organized and does a great job of putting the material in a simple way to work through.
Violeta – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It gives you information as to what you need to be focused on in order to create a plan for gifted students.
Dawn – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
I found this course to be very informative, with information that i will be able to use in the classroom.
Cindy – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
This course met it’s objective, informed me about identifying gifted students.
Benjamin – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
The anecdotal knowledge of Mrs. Juntune’s family is helpful, but distracts a little from the service of current students. It creates a bit of skepticism that this information is solely based on research based practices and not of her own need to bend research data to the outcomes she is looking for.
Candi – TULOSO-MIDWAY ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave me information about gifted students that I did not already know.
Shantel – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was a good overall introduction on how to interact and conduct class with gifted students. It actually left me wanting to learn more.
Karla – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It is a good course