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.
Angela – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of stories. Could’ve been condensed.
Lisa – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I feel like the information in the course is very applicable, however it is difficult to listen to, because the presenter’s voice gets extremely quiet and it is difficult to hear her. Other times it gets way too loud.
Emily – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent and relevant for understanding the whole gifted student
Tara – VIDOR ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and informative
Sheila – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I really learned a lot from this course. it was relevant to me and made me more aware of the need to educate teachers on these topics presented.
Martha – WALLER ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent
Sarajevo – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This is an excellent course because it really helps you understand gifted students and how to best teach them. It provides a lot of research to support its teachings. You will learn in extensive detail how to work with gifted students.
Erasmo – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Great course. A lot of new things to learn.
Lauren – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
This was a very beneficial course.
Elia – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
One sample could have sufficed