Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty (6-Hour)

$90.00

(1070 customer reviews)

Presenter: Joyce Juntune
Core Area: Differentiated Curriculum
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6

Gifted students can be found in all walks of life. With more than seventeen percent of Texans living in poverty, it is vital that educators understand the different perspectives and challenges that create achievement gaps for gifted students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Learning how to close these gaps for gifted students can help you set them up for success throughout life.

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Gifted students fall through the cracks for a variety of reasons, but perhaps the saddest is that we don’t always recognize their giftedness because of a narrow definition of intelligence. Students living in poverty are often the victims of this definition bias. Why? Because our very definitions of intelligence often hinge on verbal skills, which are typically a weakness in gifted students from low socioeconomic environments. Joyce Juntune, Ph.D. explains in Closing the Achievement Gap, that the intelligence is undoubtedly there, but environment and lifestyle lend themselves to a different perspective and skill set that educators must learn to recognize and hone. 

In this 6-hour course, you will learn:

  • How poverty impacts achievement
  • What intelligence looks like in and out of poverty
  • How to foster verbal skills in students with nonverbal strengths
This course is aligned with 2016 ODE Teacher Competencies a, b, c, e, f, g and NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards 2.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1.

Dr. 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 where she teaches graduate-level courses in her expert areas of intelligence, child and adolescent development, educational psychology, giftedness, and creativity. Dr. Juntune earned her M.S. in curriculum and instruction from St. Cloud University and her Ph.D. in educational psychology from Texas A&M University.

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. 

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1070 reviews for Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty (6-Hour)

  1. Graciela – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    This course is engaging and beneficial to all learners.

  2. Flor – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    This course is extremely interesting since it helps us have a better understand of our students’ needs. It also provides simple and doable activities that we can implement in our classroom.

  3. Rogelio – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –

    Actually I had never heard of the presenter Dr. Juntune, but that I have I am a fan of hers. She is one of the best presenter I have ever seen. I will need to see more of her and get her books too. Her information was very relevant and she was easy on the ears and eyes. Great material presented by her and I am glad I discovered her here. I can relate to her topic since the region that I am in is predominantly poverty stricken students and this thought me great amounts of information about how to enhance their learning even more. Thank you and have a great day.

    Roy G.

  4. David – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –

    This was a great course and the points she made are really eye opening. I definitely agree that with all students, but especially students from poverty, the goal is building verbal literacy and intelligence. One of the things I liked the most was having students read, sketch and explain to a partner.

  5. Lindsey – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –

    IT was informative but very long.

  6. Michelle – SOUTH TEXAS ISD (verified owner) –

    This was so worth the time! The activities and information in here were invaluable and can be used/applied to many of our learners.

  7. LaQuitia – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –

    Very good presentation.

  8. Rigoberto – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    excellent

  9. Sara – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –

    I really liked this course. It gave me new strategies I could definitely implement in reading/read aloud and for math as well.

  10. Martha – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –

    It was very informative.

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