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.
Melissa – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Sharon – Angleton ISD (verified owner) –
Informative
Melanie – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I love this course, because it helped me better understand how I could help my GT students.
Maria Isabel – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome, loved the bibliotheraphy
Kimberly – NORTH EAST ISD (verified owner) –
This course will help the gifted teacher that the students need to be appreciated for their personal and academic achievements as a person not a product
Sandra – MARBLE FALLS ISD (verified owner) –
It was very insightul.
Maria – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune is an excellent speaker. She kept me on the edge of my seat during the whole presentation. She was very informative and excellent delivery.
Amy – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
These courses were very insightful and informative. All of them were, however, very difficult to hear. I had this course and my computer on full volume and still struggled to hear most of it.
Stephen – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great and an enlighten course to understand gifted kids.
lillian – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
the course was really nice I learn a lots