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.
Justin – WASHINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
The course was very informative and useful for teachers of all grade levels. I can apply the activities discussed during this course to several units and to multiple courses I currently teach.
Frances – FRONTIER LOCAL (verified owner) –
Good Class.
Has many good ideas!
Brittany – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This course was one of the most helpful GT classes I’ve taken. It gives lots of strategies to use with GT students. I wish I had these strategies this year!
Tiffany – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Easy to complete and Informational.
Kerri – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed all of the options for differentiation!
Shaelynn – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course!
Angelica – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I like how it went into explaining how to differentiate for our GT populations.
Fidelina – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent tools to help our gifted students
Andrew – Fort Frye Local (verified owner) –
Very well done and well organized! The handouts were wonderful! I’ll be using them in class next year for sure!
Rosario – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
good ideas