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.
Jennifer – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed learning the content of this course.
Hilda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
The presenter had great energy and was very easy to follow and understand. She had connections and really brought a self awareness to my students and myself. Great work!
Deborah – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
The course presents some great classroom activities for the teachers to use in the classroom. The course also provides lots of information as to situations gifted students encounter, and strategies that can be used to aid the gifted students.
Kayla – BURTON ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful!
Karen – HUGHES SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
very interesting ideas that I had never thought of before
LaDonna – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome
Lauren – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I really liked it
Genaro – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Helped me gain more knowledge on understanding the social and emotional developments of gifted students
Griselle – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I think that this course has allowed me to understand this type of student and has also offered me tools to offer them in their development as students.
Mary – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the course but at times it was VERY hard to hear and I had the volume all the way up!