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.
Taylor – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I loved that this course provided me with activities that I can do with my students, and modeled how she would use it in the classroom. I learn better through someone modeling it for me and this course does exactly that.
Mayra – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
It is an excellent course and you learn a lot from it.
Claire – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Cheryl – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
This was an eye opener to how gifted children struggle in the class room and what techniques work for them.
Luis – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
This course really helps teachers see/feel what gifted students see/feel. It puts us teachers in the shoes of gifted students. This is exactly what gifted students need. They need a teacher that can see/feel what they feel because the need someone who will understand them.
Karen – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
This particular course has lots of meaning for me because I have two gifted children. It has helped me understand their differences.
Rolando – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative but need to extend the number of questions in the quiz. The content was interesting and the presenter did a great job of keeping the audience’s interest throughout the day.
Carrie – SWEENY ISD (verified owner) –
Great insight into gifted students social and emotional wants and needs.
Shannon – SWEENY ISD (verified owner) –
This was an excellent well put together course!
Jasmine – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative for someone like me who hasn’t been trained in GT. I loved all the examples she gave, both personal and story books the kids can relate to. I love how she provided other book options for us to use in the training course and I am for sure taking these new ideas and using them in my classroom.