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.
Michael James – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Good strategies.
Nora – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great sources of examples and explanations given in each activity.
Karla – MARION LOCAL (verified owner) –
I felt the “differentiation in the real world” was a much better course than this one. I felt the presenter focused too much on independent projects and things that are more applicable to lower elementary students.
David – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I am learning many things that I did not know about teaching the Gifted & Talented student. Very helpful course.
Alison – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course that provided many resources for gifted and general education.
Victoria – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
It seems to be targeting higher grade levels. Somethings are not applicable to Pre-k through 2nd grade.
Katherine – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I think it was good if you are an elementary or middle school teacher. There weren’t many examples for math, especially high school math.
Ashley – VIDOR ISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Pamela – MIDLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I loved all the activities that were shared that I can go back and use immediately in my classroom. This was a very beneficial training!!
Amy – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great