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.
Emilia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful
Phyllis – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Great research ideas for all students in the class.
Sara – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Kellie – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
The speaker was great and very interesting! It can be hard to be engaged in an online course but this instructor did a great job and it was easy to be engaged.
Anita – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course is interactive and interesting
Ty – FRIENDSWOOD ISD (verified owner) –
Quite frankly this goes on for such long periods of time and not all of the information feels relevant.
Nathalie – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course helped me develop several ideas I can use in my class.
Raymond – FLORENCE ISD (verified owner) –
I would like to say that this course has really helped me understand more of what to do and how to identify GT students and how they think. It is also cool to see all of the different types of assignments that we can do to gather their interests as well.
Jacqueline – TORNILLO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very easy to get through. It is not the same old monotone that others dread to do or learn from.
Laura – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course provided a vast amount of resources that are easy to use for GT students. Many of the statements that were stated are key behaviors seen in gifted students. It is important to know these behaviors because it allows us, teachers to really understand the student’s way of thinking, behavior, and interests. Let us better understand them to better guide them in THEIR learning of choice.