Description
Through her expertise and experience Joyce Juntune, Ph.D., brings a practical approach to meeting the needs of gifted students in the classroom. In fact, you will be able to use these strategies with students at any level! You will learn how to help your students organize their ideas and their learning so they can become more independent learners.
In this 3-hour course you will discover:
- Module 1: The brain and learning, and evaluation strategies for reasoning
- Module 2: How to teach decision-making skills
- Module 3: Steps and activities for planning and organizing ideas
This course is aligned with 2016 ODE Teacher Competencies a, b, c, f, g and NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.2.
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.
Hannah – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
It was engaging and required my attention
Rebecca – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
great for organizing and student choice
Ginger – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great strategies and insight as to how students are processing information. The various strategies practiced will help build students planning process to help them carry-out and complete tasks fully.
Shelley – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course a great deal. I love Dr. Juntune!
Christina – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Informative though.
Christie – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
The second part of the course was not as helpful as the first part. It was more difficult to follow and stay interested in the topic.
Manuel – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
excellent presentation, learned a lot
Mildred – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
accessibility at my own pace
Joseph – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
Great course with great tips on how to effectively understand GT students.