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.
Teresa – ARLINGTON ISD (verified owner) –
Great discussion of how to understand gifted students.
Addis – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
long but very interesting and informative
Amy – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
I loved this course. It is very helpful in understanding how behaviors and classwork of students is impacted by their gifted-ness. It gives strategies for working with challenging behaviors often seen in gifted students in the classroom.
Christina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course helps identify gifted students in a classroom, as well as providing a variety of teaching strategies to challenge and encourage creativity in gifted students.
Bethany – Private Pay (verified owner) –
This course is an excellent resource for educators wanting to reinforce understanding of the needs of gifted students as whole children and provides specific and easily usable resources for activities to use with these kids to better understand them as unique kids with individual interests and to help them better understand themselves.
Amanda – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
This was great information
Claudia – TORNILLO ISD (verified owner) –
I have been teaching for seven years, and I have to say this is the first time I feel like I can finally help a gifted kid.
Susanna – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great training to understand gifted students.
Keshia – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Has a lot of detailed information.
Zachary – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Really great. Very helpful in thinking of GT kids as people, not products.