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.
Mariah – HUGHES SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
great course
Laura – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and helpful
Russell – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
it is a pretty good course so far. I like the handouts. I don’t like the shrill little kid voices the instructor uses. it’s grating and annoying to me.
Brittany – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
Some of the handouts are helpful to implement with gifted students in the classroom
RUMALDO – MARBLE FALLS ISD (verified owner) –
The material is great but tends to focus more on the lower educational levels. Would be even more interesting if focused equally on the high school level.
Sylvia – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this PD. I am grateful that you included the resources so that I can apply what I learned here in my classroom.
Marisol – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I like that there are videos of the presenter. Its like I physically went to the training but get to do it at my own pace
Shelby – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Having the course available online makes it so convenient to complete at any time. I was so engaged by the content being shared that it made it easy to stay focused.
Kate – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the speaker, she was easy to listen to and gave very good, clear examples. I liked the resources and downloads that were made available. I like to have the option to read the dictated notes along with the presentation.
Veronica – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.