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.
Arielle – Private Pay (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful!
Rachel – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very insightful and convenient.
Jamie – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
I would like to have had the same handouts to follow along. I felt I would have enjoyed being in this course in person in order to interact.
Tokewisha – DESOTO ISD (verified owner) –
Great information!
Desiree – WALLER ISD (verified owner) –
this course will give you great insight
Dana – WALLER ISD (verified owner) –
It really dove into emotionally supporting gifted students. She gave relatable stories that help understand gift better. It also gave some great strategies in how to help them understand gifted and grow as a gifted person.
Jill – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
This a great course for every teacher. THIS is the point of learning about the gifted. More challenging to apply in subject specific/non-pull out situations, but I hope and support that the elementary level teachers are doing this often and early.
Emma – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
It had really beneficial points at times, but sometimes it took the speaker a little while to get to her point. The major learning points were extremely helpful, but the other casual talk was not.
Astha – ROUND ROCK ISD (verified owner) –
This course offers good information about the strong emotions and energies of gifted students. I enjoyed the books that were used for bibliotherapy.
Alejandra – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
great eye opener for self reflection