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.
Paige – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
This is a wonderful class! It gives you hands on activities and ideas that you can immediately implement with your students.
Jessica – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Good
ERIC – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
informative and insightful
Karen – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the ideas in this course. She is easy to listen to and her ideas are ones I will use with my students,
Carolina – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
all students will benefit from the course not just GT students
Kathleen – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Very insightful ideas to use
Leslie – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
It was very enjoyable, with many useful examples.
Leigh Ann – CHARDON LOCAL (verified owner) –
The presenter had many good ideas, but when we had to complete examples of the strategies as if we were students, it made the class take way longer than 3 hours.
Brandy – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
It was fine
Robin – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I loved how energetic the presenter was. She has wonderful ideas on how to keep the gifted learners engaged.