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. Robert – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course is insightful and well executed. Discussion is both personable and relevant, with focus on providing meaningful context for why these strategies are needed when addressing students from low SES backgrounds.

  2. Stacy – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed learning more about students raised in poverty, and the different ways to help then achieve success by closing linguistic and memory gaps for them.

  3. marsha – WODEN ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed this course very much.

  4. Sarah – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    This course was engaging and informative. I like how Dr. Juntune incorporated her own life stories into her course. The course had my attention from beginning to end, while I also got to learn many strategies that I can implement into my classroom lessons to increase academic achievement amongst my students. Great course!

  5. Victoria – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    The training was great.

  6. Gilbert – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    it was a good training in learning how how kids from poverty backgrounds learn.

  7. Hannah – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was extremely helpful in understanding the needs of diverse populations in education.

  8. Kenneth – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    Very good for English teachers, no so much for math.

  9. Laura – Private Pay (verified owner) –

    Dr. Juntune provided me with usable nuts-and-bolts strategies and backed them up with solid, research-based theory. I feel like I received tools I can use right away, and I understand WHY these things will work. That’s exactly what I want from a training like this!

  10. Liliana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    It was a very informative and engaging course. It provided me with plenty of ideas to work with the development of verbal intelligence.

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