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

$90.00

Rated 4.84 out of 5 based on 1070 customer ratings

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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Description

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.

Additional information

Core Area	Creativity & Instructional Strategies, Nature & Needs
Hours	6 Hours
Organization	Juntune
Grade Level	Elementary, Secondary
Presenter	Joyce Juntune, Ph.D.
Course Content	Gifted, Instructional Strategies, Literacy, English, ELL

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

Rated 5 out of 5

Maria – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) – July 23, 2020

The presenter has multiple strategies and ideas to build memory.
Rated 5 out of 5

Jeanette – Region 17 ESC (verified owner) – July 23, 2020

I really enjoyed this course and learned some teaching tools that I will implement with my students. This is a course that I feel many teachers will enjoy and use in their classroom to build greater academic success, especially with their students of poverty.
Rated 4 out of 5

Hannah – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) – July 23, 2020

I like that it has information that can easily be completed in the classroom.
Rated 5 out of 5

Myra – Angleton ISD (verified owner) – July 23, 2020

This course was very informative. It also pointed out some things that we often overlook at times.
Rated 5 out of 5

Michelle – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) – July 24, 2020

The information in this course was excellent. It was also a good reminder that teachers have to work harder in low SES schools to close the achievement gap for students raised in poverty.
Rated 5 out of 5

Lori – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) – July 24, 2020

This is a wonderful training with thoughtful, relevant, attainable, research-based goals.
Rated 5 out of 5

Shannon – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) – July 25, 2020

I really like the new strategies that I have learned through this course. I can’t wait to implement them in my class next year!
Rated 5 out of 5

Ana – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) – July 26, 2020

Excellent!
Rated 5 out of 5

Priscilla – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) – July 26, 2020

I found this course very informative and resourceful. Especially because I work with students who unfortunately are raised in poverty.
Rated 5 out of 5

Nancy – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) – July 26, 2020

This was one of the best training’s that I’ve been to. I learned so much about the different opportunities I can give my students to meet their needs. I will be using the methods taught in all areas of content.