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.
Miroslava – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
This a great course that I can do at my own pace. Love this!
Trina – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative
Jessica – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
great course
Breanna – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I think it was a great course with a plethora of resources!
John – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course helped me to look beyond known resources and strategies to develop assignments with more complexity and still be engaging for the students.
Lacey – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
While I enjoy Dr. Juntune, she is extremely long winded and this particular module could have been made more efficient by not having so many long stories and anecdotes. I am getting to the point where these are becoming more boring and less interesting. It would be nice to be able to skip through some of the repetitious or uninteresting bits. It would be fine if you could not skip through the main points, but in areas where it is drawn out story telling, to be able to move more quickly. As a Pre-AP Science teacher, there is so much that is directed towards elementary, and while it might be useful to some degree in high school, is not exactly applicable.
Trey – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting.
Troie Mechelle – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
informative
Amanda – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
A vasty quantity of information to guide gifted students to become independent learners and thinkers. The resources provided can benefit all learners.
Kristina – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful.