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.
Cranesha – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
Life changing!
Jennifer – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
The learning platform is outdated. Maybe use Canvas? It constantly has to be refreshed and freezes often. The graphics and videos are outdated as well. Difficult to navigate also. I think an updated overhaul would help this program be more engaging and interactive.
Debra – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I really like the real student examples used in the course. It’s very relatable. These activities are some that I can easily use in my class immediately.
Frank – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Very infornational.
Sandra – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Great refresher and new ideas covered.
Claire – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
juan – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Amazing content!
Cheryl – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
This was great. I will definitely use some of these activities with some of my students.
Priscilla – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Knowledgeable
Ashley – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
It was great! I took away lots of ideas that I want to use in my classroom next year. The only thing that was truly not usable for me was the citation portion. I may be able to have my 2nd graders say what website they went to, but expecting 2nd graders (or young students) to go to a website and create an MLA/APA/Chicago citation is not going to happen. So I wish she had talked about some ways that we could have younger students create citations.