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.
Katia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informational and engaging! I loved the speaker and the enthusiasm. Stories really helped put it into perspective.
Tracy – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Very well done.
Daniel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great
Lourdes – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very engaging course, helpful
Cesar – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great helpful course!
Jennifer – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Informative
Naketa – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome courses for more strategies on working with GT students.
Danielle – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
great
Amanda – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative course.
Stephanie – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
We were told. In a previous training by the same speaker, that gifted students do not want to be singled out nor should we have them help other students. Yet in this training the speaker talks about asking the gifted student to come up and teach/explain their way of understanding a concept in class, which seems to be contradicting the previous training I just went through.