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.
David – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
It is a great course!
Joseph – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It was a great course that taught me, as a new teacher, strategies that can help me be effective for all students.
Izamare – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
The course contains a variety of information and resources that will be beneficial to any teacher.
Alonso – TORNILLO ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed learning about gifted students in this course. I think this course will help me identify those students and to help them be successful.
Robert – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course was an interesting and wonderful course. I feel Dr. Juntune did a wonderful job explaining everything I needed to know about GT students and would definitely be interested enrolling in future courses with her.
Jessica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and fun to learn!
Araceli – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great explanation of ideas along with real life examples of students.
Guadalupe – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course for all levels of teaching experience and for administrators as well. The presenter does an excellent job explaining the difference between high achievers and gt students. She also does a great job scaffolding the instruction for all types of learners.
Yolitza – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It was a great course. Very beneficial and informative.
Diane – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative and learned some things i am doing wrong in the classroom and things that I am doing right.