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.
Colton – Private Pay (verified owner) –
This is an extremely thorough course on all things Gifted and Talented. Dr. Juntune does a phenomenal job at identifying the best methods of identifying gifted students, what possible methods of instruction can be used in order to meet these gifted student’s needs, and confronting misconceptions about the GT program.
Kaysie – Angleton ISD (verified owner) –
VERY informative, visuals were great and I loved that some of it was seeing the presenter where others were seeing the documents. I was confused at first of finding the resources, but I found them and they helped a lot.
Alma – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I think this was a very helpful course.
Rosario – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting. Every single teacher should have these types of trainings not just GT teachers.
Briana – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I appreciate the anecdotes given by Dr. Juntune, but I feel a lot of this course relied heavily on her personal experience. I would like more scientific studies/national/state data. In addition, some of the questions on the module quizzes do not seem to be connected to the most important information in the course.
Sophia – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course to start with as a teacher new to working with a class of gifted students
Francisco – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very well thought out and helpful. I feel more competent in designing and implementing curriculum and serve all my students.
Roxxana – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of informative data for sure.
Shelby – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I would like to have copies of the resources but am unable to access them
Andrew – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
I like it