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.
Tara – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
The course was great! I took a lot of notes though and didn’t like that the quizzes only had around 4-5 questions. I don’t think they accurately depicted your true level of understanding of all of the course module material.
Kyndall – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Kimberli – Angleton ISD (verified owner) –
This course is great for understanding the social and emotional needs of gifted students.
Brenda – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course is great! It offers numerous methods to incorporate daily in the classroom along with a better understanding of being gifted.
Martina – TORNILLO ISD (verified owner) –
I would share with colleagues the clear objective or goal of guided discussions for the gifted student and definitely what we need to appreciate them and not expect them to be perfect all the time and help them understand themselves.
Lawrence – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative course. I plan on watching it again to help with my daughter during COVID.
Oscar – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It is a great course to show information on gifted students and identify characteristics of G/T students.
Traviya – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Love her real world stories and ideas.
Mary – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course and it was extremely informative.
Wendy – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I love this course! Excellent and engaging explanations and examples to help understand gifted students.