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. Michelle – CLEAR CREEK ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed the overall topic, but some of it was a bit repetitive and there wasn’t as much that applied to my grade/topic as I had hoped, but I will make it work in my classroom

  2. Laura – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Great presentation

  3. Donna – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    I love Dr. Juntune. She has a great way of teaching. The slides are also helpful.

  4. Marla – CLEAR CREEK ISD (verified owner) –

    I loved the use of mindsketches to learn new vocabulary or visualize a scene in a book, The use of post it notes to organize and reorganize thoughts for a story. The use of a folder for students to “pick up right where they left off” is clever. This course is designed more for the elementary level and as I high school math teacher I will have to get creative on how to use modified versions some of the techniques in my classroom. Minsketching for learning the vocabulary of geometric terms is something i plan on incorporating in my lessons.

  5. Gilbert – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great information!!! If you teach at a title 1 campus and/or have a bilingual student population, there is no doubt this is the course of study for you!

  6. Krystal – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    This is a good course. I enjoyed learning about students in poverty and how to help them successful.

  7. LeeAnn – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –

    This was a great course that gave a lot of examples that you could use in your classroom right away.

  8. Valarie – SAN MARCOS CISD (verified owner) –

    It was well organized in a way that I was provided with so much knowledge with out feeling overwhelmed.

  9. Sariena – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    very informative and great examples.

  10. Christiane – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –

    Lots of good ideas that applies to all students

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