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.
Miroslava – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
The topics were great but it was very hard to hear sometimes even with the volume up all the way.
Jennifer – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative and helped me see gifted students in a different light.
Breanna – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course provided multiple strategies on how students can better understand their giftedness which is a major contributor to their overall success throughout life.
Dena – HUNTSVILLE ISD – TEXAS ONLINE PREP (verified owner) –
I learned how to help my gifted students with strategies.
John – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
It made me think about what it must feel like to be gifted each day of life.
Johany – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
It was very helpful
Lydia – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
Very good in helping to understand the gifted child.
Adriana – 588 Co-op (verified owner) –
Awesome resources.
Tomas – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Good training. Her personal stories make the training longer than it should be in my opinion.
Zachary – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I think this provided a fantastic broad scope of different ways that gifted children express themselves. It has caused me to broaden my scope of what constitutes a gifted student.