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. Katie – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –

    I think this course was very informative and offered resources truly applicable to my classroom and the demographic of my students. It was a very helpful piece of information to understand that students from povery, especially like those in my classroom that are learning a second language (as this is the purpose of my school) can be at an even greater deficit.

  2. Vanessa – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    The presentation was very informative. It gave me better insight as to how I can expose my low income students to many things without having to take them on field trips and how to better educate the students to close the learning gap these students come to school with.

  3. Sheila – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –

    Great information, very interactive presentation.

  4. Cassie – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –

    It was very engaging, enlightening, and useful.

  5. Cynthia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    It’s a very informative course which will improve student learning and efficiency.

  6. Susana – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    I absolutely loved it! I really liked that we wre given notes to keep for future reference. i enjoyed the manner in which Dr. Junetune approached the audience, as she had us participate thorughout the workshop. She was very clear and made emphasis where needed. I loved her presentation, I think she gave us teachers a great deal of strategies ans examples as how to teach our Llow socio economic student body and so we can guarantee academic achievement.

  7. Chelsea – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    5 stars

  8. David – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –

    This is a great course because it really explains to you how the brain works and why some students struggle with reading, reading comprehension, verbalization and memory. These are techniques teachers at all levels and grades should be using.

  9. Jaire – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    It is informative and has great ideas to do in the classroom.

  10. Lauren – MARION CITY (verified owner) –

    I thought the course was extremely comprehensive and helpful.

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