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.
Bradford – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was a little repetitive, but still informational. It provided some tools, but not many I would be excited to use.
Matthew – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
This training helped me learn techniques for doing differentiation with my gifted students.
Crystal – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Too much talking and personal stories. Make it a power point with short multiple choice question checkpoints instead of reflection questions. I do not like listening to this person talk about her life instead of giving the information in a straight forward way.
Ellen – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
The modules presented many ideas and activities that could be used in the classroom.
Jaxon – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It was effecient
Nayani – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
William – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Loved the course! Thank you for all of your help.
Aide – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –
I loved all the information that was given in this professional development. I learned a lot and I thank Joyce Juntune for doing such a great job and for the knowledge on this subject.
Victoria – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
good
Djorkaeff – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was extremely helpful in incorporating certain activities that allow GT students to think beyond the classroom setting.