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

Roel – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) – January 12, 2022

Great course.
Rated 5 out of 5

Alma – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) – January 13, 2022

I think this was an excellent course. I see that students need a lot of opportunities to develop their verbal skills, and teachers need to develop those skills so students can be successful. I will use the strategies Dr. Juntune presented in this course.
Rated 5 out of 5

Edith – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) – January 14, 2022

This course was informational and eye opening.
Rated 5 out of 5

Francisco – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) – January 17, 2022

Excellent way to build academic vocabulary.
Rated 5 out of 5

Linda – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) – January 18, 2022

I loved this course. Very interesting.
Rated 4 out of 5

Sandra – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) – January 18, 2022

Very informative
Rated 5 out of 5

Sarah – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) – January 19, 2022

I learn so much from from these videos.
Rated 4 out of 5

Kevin – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) – January 19, 2022

Good course.
Rated 5 out of 5

Annabel – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) – January 20, 2022

Really enjoyed the mindsketching exercises presented by Dr. Juntune. I love her presentation of her mindsketching models and exercises and the explanations on why this method works.
Rated 5 out of 5

Abigail – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) – January 21, 2022

These are some very useful modules that teachers can use to help develop the nonliguistic students by working with mind sketching, memory sequencing, and helping develop that complex language. I plan to use these strategies in my classroom this year.