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.
Alicia – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
I liked it, because I learned a lot about my GT students, and my self, who never really though about what being gifted myself meant, and because I feel better prepared to parent my GT student after this course.
Jessica – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course. I learned a lot of useful information that I can take back to my own classroom and use.
Jill – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
I always think of us, the teachers, as the various students we have in our classes. While I love the approachablility of the content – easy to swallow – and the delivery of stories, I wonder if there is a way to allow choice or opportuntiy within the instruction.
Andrew – Brazosport ISD (verified owner) –
I learned more about identifying gifted students and how they learn as well as creating lessons, activities and projects based on their interests and areas of strengths.
Robin – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Nicole – LEANDER ISD (verified owner) –
If you are able to take this course WITH your teaching team, that would be most beneficial. Completing this course independently makes it more challenging to discuss the learning with my team (as we are all at different points in the course). Also, I would have liked more guidance on how to apply this specifically to my content area. Working through this training as a team would allow for brainstorming of implementation.
LaTisha – MIDLAND ISD (verified owner) –
If you’re an elementary teacher, this would probably be more useful for you.
Also, I’m sure Dr. Junetune is a wonderful woman, but her voice is hard for me to listen to for long stretches.
Sara – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course not only provided insight for my gifted students, but also for a classroom of varying needs in general.
Melaine – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
this is a good course! it is very lengthy but she goes very in depth
Sadie – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent! A plethora of realistic strategies to implement in the classroom.