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.
Dana – VIDOR ISD (verified owner) –
This course involves you sitting and listening to someone talk the entire time. I am not an auditory learner, so I would have benefited from movement of some kind.
Pamela – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very helpful in providing resources and giving us the opportunty to utilize a resource or practice what has been taught.
Eva – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
A great and detailed explanation of how to help meet students needs.
HECTOR – LIBERTY ISD (verified owner) –
This course is great
craig – Private Pay (verified owner) –
great resources and fresh ideas
Lillie – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
I think it is awesome so we meet the needs our gifted and talented.
Tiffany – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
There were interesting activities to involve all students and how to raise the complexity of those activities for GT students.
Patricia – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed learning and understanding how differentiating an assignment can be useful in the classroom environment for my GT students and how it can help students who are not listed GT. I will take these activities into consideration and learn to implement them in my classroom, depending on the lesson we are covering.
Cassandra – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
The ideas presented can be used with high achievers and gifted students. Differentiation was really explored.
Jana – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
very useful