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.
Robert – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune did a wonderful job explaining Social & Emotional Development of the Gifted & Talented
Amanda – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative!
Irfan – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This course should be for all parents and teachers, if one like to see the potential a child has and how social and emotional needs of different kids be understood, especially if you see your child or student behaving differently. These GT kids has gifted anatomy of their brain. Their developmental milestones are at different pace as compare to average good kid. Special attention is required from parents and teachers to understand the gifted potential and how can we provide the space a child requires to attain those special abilities. I learnt all these from this very training course and I think, it is not for teachers only, parents should also be part of this trainings and capacity buildings initiatives.
Alexandra – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
great course but having trouble with my work saying it is not complete when it has been finished
Carey – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative. It helped me to see what gifted students need and made me thing about what they were getting in schools.
Larisel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting to know the background of gifted students.
Tina – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Very good
Jessica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative!
Jordyn – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I really appreciate all of the tools that were suggested in understanding gifted students’ social/emotional states.
Melissa – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
The corse has a lot of information that is helpful when helping and understanding GT students.