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.
Patricia – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Carol – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting course. It provided a lot of teaching strategies to help the gifted student understand some of the characteristics of what it means to be gifted.
Ashley – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
It was great! Thank you for teaching me about gifted students emotions and sensitivities.
Alison – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This is a good, informative course.
Sandra – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Gave great insight into the Social Emotional aspects of giftedness. Excellent presentation of story books that can be used to help GT students as a bibliotherapy lesson.
Swanesa – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Great opportunity to learn what to do for gifted students!
Nora – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great explanations of the emotions gifted students go through.
David – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
It was extremely helpful and insightful. It will help me greatly with any gifted children I work with in the classroom or my personal life.
Maria – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
It has been interested to understand how gifted kids develop different then high achievers students. I will now better understand gifted students and fell like I will be able to teach them more appropriate.
Alayna – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
This course does a very good job of teaching social and emotional development of GT students.