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.
Lucia – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent information!
Edgar – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course has insightful research based practices that assist differentiation for gifted learners.
Georgette – BLANCHESTER LOCAL (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the course and felt like Dr. Juntune has a lot of great ideas for working with gifted kids.
Ryan – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Good
Sonia – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Good course
Alex – LIBERTY ISD (verified owner) –
It was a really good course and I learned some really important skills and resources that I can take back to my classroom and apply to my teaching.
Marisol – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
My mind was opened to a lot of information about gifted students that I’ve observed during my years of teaching but that hadn’t taken the time to really reflect on how to build on their gifts.
Wendy – NORTHRIDGE LOCAL (verified owner) –
It was informative and made me think of some ways I can help the gifted students in my class.
Laura – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
It was good
Marie – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
Great and detailed information. I love the graphic organizer.