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.
Cheryl – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and helps you to think outside of the box in helping and teaching gifted students.
Janet – Brazosport ISD (verified owner) –
This was very informative about GT students and the different types of GT students. I learned about ways to use ddata to drive my decisions on how to service them according to their interests and ways they learn.
Jonette – DESOTO ISD (verified owner) –
I truly enjoyed the information that was presented in this course. There was a lot of valuable information that I plan on using in my classroom.
elvia – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very informative and highly recommend this course to parents as well.
Angelica – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent information and helpful. Allows for a different perspective of what to look for to identify a gifted student from a high achiever. Gives a variety of differentiation ideas and plans.
Jamie – DESOTO ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed the quick assessments at the end of each module.They weren’t too long but quick enough to access the content of the lessons.
Ines – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very useful for understanding how to work with gifted and talented students
Allison – WACO ISD (verified owner) –
To the point. Good visuals. Very good information.
Frank – 588 Co-op (verified owner) –
Very good, individualized method of presentation. More focused learned opportunity.
Breanna – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informing.