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.
Katherine – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
The presenter is very engaging and interesting to listen to .
Ricardo – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Anita – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
This course is great. It is so informative and helps you see how gifted students think and feel. It helps you, as a teacher to realize things that you may have not noticed before, or even things that you could have done better and now can correct. In every review so far, I have said this training would be great for all teachers!
Roberto – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course says a lot about what happens below the surface, inside a gifted student’s head, whenever we see problem behaviors. The information provided will be very useful for understanding not just gifted students, but gifted adults as well.
Morgan – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I liked this course, and it made me more aware of a gifted student’s emotional needs.
Jasmine – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Great insight to what gifted students need for their social and emotional development.
Heidi – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course. I have taught gifted students for over 30 years and have never had a class that dealt with their emotions and actions.
SELINDA – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Aweseome!
Diane – COLUMBIA-BRAZORIA ISD (verified owner) –
It was a great course in helping me understand the emotions and struggles gifted kids deal with all of the time.
Maria – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
helpful