Description
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
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.
Talina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful information and strategies that I can implement with my students.
Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course because my demographics are low socio-economic students. I liked the variety of activities for teaching academic vocabulary.
Erika – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful and informative.
Norma – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was very interesting and enlightening.
Ronda – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Very insightful course.
Oscar – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Good course that is relevant to all subjects.
Sarah – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Extemely insightful course. Perfect if you are working with low income, poverty, LEP students, and high non verbal low verbal students. Great information.
Rachel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very important & interesting points were made regarding poverty and its effect on students’ academic development. Thoroughly enjoyed course.
Andria – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting course that helped me understand what I need to do in my classroom to nurture my students and expand their memory and linguistic abilities.
Stephany – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave very good ideas on how to teach GT students from low socioeconomic backgrounds.