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.
Mary – BARBERS HILL ISD (verified owner) –
This course was not only helpful to me as a teacher, but to understand myself when I was a student. I wish there was training like this available for my teachers when I was younger. It has helped me to be more aware of students I teach in art that are probably overlooked gifted children.
Julio Cesar – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and fresh to hear through the modules.
Kourtney – HUDSON ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.
Kenisha – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I was very in depth. I learned a lot of different information about gifted learners that I did not know. Everyone would benefit from taking this course.
Amber – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It is a little bit lengthy
Rodrigo – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This is definitely a very well organized course with a lot of information that would benefit any individual working with gifted students.
Alberto – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Norma – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
this course is very helpful.
Marquita – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I love the information given. I learned how to deal with my gifted students and feel I have identified a few of them based on the course
Kerri – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
It was great to see how gifted kids in poverty are effected and how we need to look at the nonverbal scores. It was also important to see ways to differentiate and split gifted students time throughout the day.