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. Miglia – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –

    Great teaching resource with powerful information to use in the classroom.

  2. Michael – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    it was great

  3. James – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    One of the more helpful courses I’ve experienced. Although designed for students who live in poverty, I found it to be very useful for all of my students.

  4. Catherine – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    I thought the core information was very good. I wish there had been some modeling of practices to use with older students. Most seemed geared to elementary students. I can tweak them for my high schoolers, but it would be interesting to see what Dr. Juntune would suggest.

  5. Diana – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed learning about drawing and sketching. Educators have been lacking this component from the lessons.

  6. Leigh – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –

    It can be very useful.

  7. Cynthia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great

  8. Piper – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –

    I really enjoyed the material shared in this course. Although it was designed for Gifted and Talented students of poverty, I could apply to to all students of poverty who are developing their academic language and non verbal skills. I also appreciated that it was applicable to all grade levels.

  9. Dottie – WASHINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –

    Very insightful course. The research validates the use of sketching – deceleration – for those students with a gap in verbal and non-verbal intelligence.

  10. Jill – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –

    I thought this was extremely applicable due to the population os students that I work with.

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