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. Edith – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    Practical way of teaching low SES students.

  2. Peter – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –

    It does a great job of discribing how to use sketching to activate better memory, and gives ideas on how to connect the ideas they have learned to in a meaningful way

  3. Debra – Springfield City School District (verified owner) –

    This was excellent for me as I teach in a school that has a high incidence of students in poverty. I highly recommend it to others.

  4. Maritza – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –

    It was a very good course, very informational and shared a lot of good ideas.

  5. Gregory – DAYTON CITY (verified owner) –

    Good way to review info last heard in grad school.

  6. Hector – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course opened my eyes to a great way to better help my tier 3 students. Sometimes they have a hard time writing or even speaking, so sketching and the other strategies shown here will better my understanding of my students’ way of thinking.

  7. GABRIELA A – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    I understood the connection between the importance of verbal intelligence and the lack of practicing that skill if family and teachers do not activate it in a child.

  8. Stephanie – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    Course was very helpful and informational. Great !

  9. VERONICA – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    This is an excellent workshop to assist educators meet the needs and challenges of our students.

  10. Iris – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informational on defining nonverbal and verbal intelligences. It was instructional in presenting the different strategies that can be used to help build our students’ verbal intelligence.

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