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.
Carly – HUNTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was a valuable part of the gifted student training.
Shawn – Springfield City School District (verified owner) –
Good information presented in an organized way. The graphic organizers will be super helpful in the future.
Monica – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informativem, clear and consice
Francisco – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course that would help you understand gifted students.
Stephanie – Coshocton City Schools (verified owner) –
This course kept my attention and I was able to add more ideas/strategies to differentiate for my gifted students.
Efrain – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great workshop!
Tina – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Loved this course! It is always so difficult to teach research to students. I actually gave one of my gifted students an independent research study after watching this course.
Michael – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Good course.
Daniel – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This course provided many interesting choices for differentiation. This is the first time that I go through GT training and it is interesting to note that I found I already employ some of the strategies covered in the course, not only with GT students but with “regular” students as well. What this course is doing for me is helping me learn how I can be a better consumer of these strategies so that I get better results when I employ these strategies in the classroom.
Jamie – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to implement differential ways in the classroom.