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.
Alberto – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.
Claudia – TORNILLO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
WILLIAM – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
The trainings were user friendly, comprehensive, and applicable to all content areas.
Megan – FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
This course is a good introduction to understanding the social emotional needs of GT students, in addition to providing ideas that teachers can easily add into their classroom routine to meet these needs.
BRANDI – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
It was a good course
Kelly – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
Offers a lot of support for the classroom teacher in understanding gifted students.
Martha – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
This course really let us understand how we can address gifted students feelings and emotions and its very detailed.
Noemi – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the ideas presented in this course. While I enjoyed the presenter’s intonation, I found that MANY segments were difficult to hear. I had to often adjust the volume on my computer and that made the experience difficult to enjoy.
Stephania – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Sweet course!
Tomas – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
love the stories got caught up listening and stoped talking notes