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. CYNTHIA – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    It was a great course to learn different strategies to develop language for students raised in poverty.

  2. Karime – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    Great course!

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

    This professional development was very interesting to learn the different ways learners from poverty learn. I liked the way she gave ideas and examples to use in your own class, also by having us complete the activites.

  4. Amber – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –

    I loved this course! I found it very interesting and decomposed several of the stereotypes that we as teachers have about poverty and our “average” students. I love working with those that need it the most and this just helped me to feel better equipped with tools to help them succeed.

  5. Jeana – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner) –

    Helpful

  6. Tammy – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –

    There are a lot of simple, but great ideas that you can start right away in your classroom

  7. Tammy – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –

    Finally some answers about helping students close gaps.

  8. Alecia – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –

    It show me how to teacher a Nonverbal student so they may be as successful as a Verbal student.

  9. Tashia – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –

    The course was great. I liked the memory part. However; it was too long.

  10. Tanya – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –

    Very Informative.

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