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.
Brenda – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I love the videos are prerecorded and we can go back and look at them when needed.
Michelle – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
awesome!
Shelzy – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very important information.
Aleena – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I found the resources and activities discussed in this course where very interesting I love that they can be easily modified to meet the needs of Kinder GT students.
Sandy – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great differentiation activity ideas. I enjoyed learning about the distinction between enrichment activities and GT activities.
Grace – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great resources
Rosalie – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It was okay.
Sara – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I love this presenter. She is excellent. I love that at the end, she always gives a recap of what is important.
Olivia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I found all these activities very useful,
Alexis – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed learning about some different strategies I can use in my class.