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.
Karina – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I really like the way Dr. Juntune explains and make us understand what a gifted child is.
Adanna – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course
Riene – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
It continued my understanding of giftedness.
Dineen – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
She was slightly over-the-top and dramatic. Otherwise, very good information on how to identify and work with gifted students
Josephine – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Extremely helpful and informative
betsy – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I appreciated this course. The speaker seems to really know her stuff.
Luz – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This course is an open eyes to understand gifted students emotion and how we as teacher can help them.
Madeline – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
This course allowed me to see how a gifted student thinks and what they may struggle with so I am able to help guide them and educate them on what it means to be gifted.
Consuelo – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very enlightening.
Ricky – EANES ISD (verified owner) –
The workshop covered a wide variety of subjects within the framework of GT and serves as a good beginning or review of GT for teachers.