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.
Jessica – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
It is a very informative course. It gives greatly insight as to what a gifted students is feeling.
Tammy – BELLBROOK-SUGARCREEK LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course shows the full picture of gifted students, not just the intellectual.
Amanda – WALLER ISD (verified owner) –
It helps you understand more than just the academics to your students.
Sharon – Private Pay (verified owner) –
This course helped me have a better understanding of gifted students’ emotional development and in what ways I can foster their development in my classroom.
Laura – WALLER ISD (verified owner) –
This course has great ideas to implement in the classroom for our students.
Kawona – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this course was very useful.
Aleshia – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
This course is very informative and helpful.
Beatriz – WALLER ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Marc – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Great course. It even helped me better understand myself when I was a gifted child feeling frustrated and misunderstood
Katie – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Great course content filled with valuable training that will benefit teachers, families and students.