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.
Garreth – NORTH EAST ISD (verified owner) –
It is very helpful and informative
Gloria – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful refresher course for working with GT students
Amir – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Franchessa – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
I felt like a lot of excuses were made for gifted students. If we made these excuses for SPED students, parents would be furious. Also, at some point, everyone needs to learn how to sit down and behave in society, even if they’re uninterested. What are we doing for our students if we are not helping them grown into adults that can function in the real world. Also, I really do not feel like most of this applies to AP students.
Aarin – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was a great way to teach me more about the psychology of gifted students and provide me with more tools to support them in my classroom.
MARIA ARACELI – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
It has helped me to see the amount of tools, resources, strategies that exist and the things that we must take into account when teaching our GT students
Matthew – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Fantastic! Gives you an insight of a GT student.
juancarlos – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Very good, well put together, and informative.
Merida – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This course has been fascinating. It was entertaining, very applicable and gave great ideas to help me in the classroom.
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome training