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.
Nikki – FORT BEND ISD (verified owner) –
I found this course very helpful. It provided me with ample amounts of information needed to support not only my GT students but, my high and average students as well.
Justine – Private Pay (verified owner) –
The content was straight to the point and had great examples of ideas to use in the classroom to improve plans for gifted students!
Stephanie – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I thought the course was presented in an engaging way. It greatly helped me to understand gifted students better, i.e. how they learn and think.
Kathleen – Angleton ISD (verified owner) –
It was informative.
Vanessa – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative!
Natasha – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and easy to follow.
Brian – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great program and material
Christopher – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course touches on a lot of aspects of teaching that is useful not only for gifted children, but is applicable to other student needs as well! The software is also very simple and allows for both audible video ‘and’ a text source of the dialogue. (This helped me most of all. I’m a reader not a listener!)
Gregorio – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Very beneficial
Dana – DICKINSON ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of interesting info, but would love to learn more geared towards younger students since I teach Kinder.