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.
Ariana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very nice. It provides many worksheets that can be used with students to assess their knowledge and help them think deeper.
Vanessa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative, we learned about many activities we can use to differentiate instruction. However, the presenter did share too many stories.
Gabriel – MIDLAND ISD (verified owner) –
This course has a wide variety of strategies that can enhance learning.
Alicia – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I love the courses and feel they are very relevant. I do wish there were more examples of how to tailor the use of the resources to younger children.
Catherine – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
it had a lot of good resources to use with the students
LaVytrice – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
pretty cool!
Yolanda – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I love that this course is offered online. I can watch at my leisure to get my hours.
Brian – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent refresher course
Brady – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Good training!
Jeremy – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was full of great activity ideas and ways to support GT students with independent studies.