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.
Antonio – EL PASO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY (verified owner) –
It was a great training to know how to target gifted students when it comes to assingments and emotions
Glenda – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent as all of the courses were.
Cassandra – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The course was great!
Kathleen – PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Joyce has a wonderful way of presenting detailed information about gifted people and how the non-gifted person can work with them. She had so many awesome stories! Those stories were really pertinent to the topics and put all of the concepts into perspective.
Brianna – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This is informational, yet it can feel that as teachers we are doing professional development in a way we would not ask these types of students to do.
Morgan – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Very informational and engaging.
Elizabeth – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
I loved this course. I learned a lot and the speaker was very passionate. I appreciate all the handouts and the information that was given.
Alma – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course covers a lot of different areas to understand gifted students.
Suzette – MISSION CISD (verified owner) –
Good pace
Monica – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting and deep. We get a great understanding of gifted students with both their strengths and fears.