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.
Emily – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
This course is very detailed.
Katharine – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This was helpful in understanding of the importance of recognizing the while person that is a gifted student. Too often they are recognized only for the intelligence they possess. It is important for them to understand what it means to be gifted.
Madaleyme – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative; provides extensive understanding of a gifted student
Dwayne – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Good course overall that serves its purpose.
Module 4, Section 11.1, slide 33:
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Completion also sometimes doesn’t register where you will have to re-click through the slides mutliple times until it updates. I have had both slides and a quiz not register as being completed after going through a module. On some occasions, the courses will buffer/load excessively and you will be prompted to put in your login information again before the course will load, when ordinarily it would not ask for it. Please note that these problems are mostly site issues as opposed to the course itself.
Chaterica – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
two thumbs up
Hunter – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
its a good course
Cecilia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was informative.
Jasmine – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent
Wendel – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course helps one to better understand how to deal with the development of GT students.
Robert – HUNTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
very thorough