Description
The unique needs and attributes of gifted children extend beyond merely their accelerated cognitive development. They are divergent from average children in social and emotional arenas as well. Because they have special intellectual, emotional, imaginational, psycho-motor, and sensual energies that need to be understood, respected and sometimes redirected it is essential that school districts have a deep understanding of how these children operate beyond just meeting their intellectual needs.
In this course Dr. Juntune will guide you through the unique social and emotional world of a gifted child and demonstrate how schools, teachers and administrators can best serve these children and provide them with the whole person education that they have a right to.
This course is aligned with 2016 ODE Teacher Competencies d, e, and NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, and 5.5.
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.
Susan – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
It gives excellent strategies that help build self-esteem and coping skills for gifted children.
Rachel – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I love how in depth this course really goes! It is very eye opening and it provides a lot of information that I can learn from and utilize.
Kasi – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I felt this course will give teachers, especially newer teachers, a pathway to take with gifted children. It also helps to take this course while you actually have gifted students in your class so you can relate to them. It is hard to just listen and take notes about this when you haven’t actively worked with a gifted kid. It gives you a different perspective on how you show look at that student and not compare to the rest of the students in your class.
Diana – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
It was very useful and insightful to understand the diversity we have in our classrooms.
DIANA – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
great communications
Javier – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
This instructor is a great story teller. Very engaging. She brings a great perspective.
Nancy – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
simply amazing I learned a lot about gifted and talented kids.
Arika – Brazosport ISD (verified owner) –
There are many good activities presented for helping a gifted student process/channel their thoughts/views of a topic they are learning about.
Marsha – Allen East Local Schools (verified owner) –
Outstanding. Absolutely worth every minute.
Maria – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –
exceptional training course!!!