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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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. 

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

  1. Ryan – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –

    This course gave me ideas for not only low SES students, but for all students. I feel like many of the strategies will be helpful to students of all SES backgrounds.

  2. Ana – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    it is easy to manage…you can go as fast or slow as you need…you can use the note feature to check the wording

  3. Francisco – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    I found the course to be very interesting and relevant to improve my teaching skills.

  4. Meredith – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –

    I thought this course was very interesting.

  5. Lauren – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –

    A lot of eye-opening information presented here. Understanding the implications of verbal to non-verbal score gaps is helpful for everyone to understand and her specific teaching and organizations strategies could be applied in a wide variety of school settings.

  6. Angela – COLUMBIA-BRAZORIA ISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent Course!

  7. Alex – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    I thought it was great!

  8. Aurelia – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –

    Even at the high school level I’m excited to bring this into my on-level Chemistry classes. I think mind sketching wall charts and word walls with mind sketching will help all of the students, but especially the lower lever learners. I’m excited to try it this year and will start the year off gauging and working on memory capacity and introducing drawing and mind sketching to be used throughout the year. I also read to my students even though they are in high school!

  9. Mady – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –

    Very easy to follow and interesting!

  10. Amanda – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked this! I would like to take additional courses like this.

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