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.
Analaura – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This is a very descriptive, informative, and complete course that helps teachers understand gifted and talented students. It provides strategies that will be very helpful to use in class.
Anna – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative with ideas to reach gifted students.
Jennifer – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
This course is good for helping educators and parents understand how to support the emotional element of gifted students.
Sherrie – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed learning about how I need to understand what gifted students really need. Very informative.
Rachel – Private Pay (verified owner) –
This course was very engaging, easy to follow along with, and insightful.
Matthew – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Informative.
Kimberly – GIDDINGS ISD (verified owner) –
It was good.
Courtney – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course! Very Informative! 🙂
Tiffany – FLORENCE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was really helpful with how social emotional learning impacts a gifted student’s learning ability.
Mark – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
The strategies are quite insightful, I learned many interesting topics I has not previously considered.