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.
Jennifer – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
Fantastic ideas and ready to use in the classroom – thank you!
Angela – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
5 stars
Adriana – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
very helpful
Marc – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Exceptional course. Great examples of how to create assignments for our GT students.
Rachel – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave many interesting ideas; however, many would be hard to implement in a middle school math classroom.
Veronica – SINTON ISD (verified owner) –
I found this course influential.
Wendy – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
The course is very easy to understand. It provides visuals and examples that help us to understand the concepts being explained.
Wanda – Santa Cruz Valley Unified District (verified owner) –
Excellent tools. Overall, very helpful in understanding how to better help gifted students and to prepare them for the future.
Anastasia – ALPINE ISD (verified owner) –
This training really gets you to think deeper about how you design your lessons. However, each one of these courses takes a very long time… I wish it was broke up a little better seeing as we teachers cannot devote this much time all at once. We need to feel like we are accomplishing something rather than having to take it bit by bit and feeling like the end is no where in sight.
Karen – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoy the different activities to implement in lessons to differentiate and encourage students for higher critical thinking.