Description
Gifted children require differentiation in the classroom to meet their unique needs and insure that they are adequately challenged in the classroom. It’s important that they receive the education they need for their development without disturbing or isolating the rest of the class. Join Dr. Juntune as she walks you through the unique minds of gifted children and explains why they need differentiation. She addresses how to practice individualized differentiation on a daily basis without placing a taxing workload on educators.
This course will teach you:
- Why differentiation is essential
- Why it needs to be taking place constantly and cannot be relegated to certain times of the day or week.
- How tapping into the interests of students is invaluable to differentiation
- In-class strategies to naturally incorporate differentiation into the school day
- How to differentiate with limited work on the part of the teacher
- Why enrichment is not enough
- Why offering choice is crucial
And much more!
This course is aligned with 2016 ODE Teacher Competencies a, b, c, e, f, g and NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 5.2.
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.
Robert – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I love the strategies and insights offered.
PERLA – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The course was informative and useful for classroom implementation.
Alejandra – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very informative and provided a significant number of activities that can be used to differentiate instruction for GT students. The strategies presented can be implemented across various grade levels and content areas which is very helpful.
Cynthia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I feel this course is very informative and helps differintitate in the classroom.
Samantha – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and provides different ways to differentiate inside the classroom.
Josselin – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The course helps us differentiate in the classroom using various formats to implement.
Karla – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Love it!
Elisa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course to make a connection with the type of research students need to make and the resources they an use. This course gave me a broader understanding of how I can assist students by using organizers/diagrams to do their research.
Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Yes, I believe that this module provided amazing resources that can be used on a daily school setting.
Daira – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
There are great ideas we can use in this course and the addition of the resources is much appreciated.