Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty – Building Complex Language

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Presenter: Joyce Juntune
T-TESS Domain:  Planning 1.1, Planning 1.4, Instruction 2.1, Instruction 2.2, Instruction 2.4
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1

Developing verbal intelligence is what makes the difference between academic success and failure for students raised in poverty. Most of these students score well in nonverbal intelligence but well below their peers in verbal intelligence. In Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty – Building Complex Language, Dr. Joyce Juntune helps teachers identify how building complex language helps students develop their nonverbal skills into verbal skills, which is the key to helping them towards academic achievement.

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When working with students from a low-income community, Dr. Joyce Juntune discovered that some of the students didn’t know the word for “train” or how to describe what it did — even though the train tracks ran through the middle of their neighborhood! This clearly demonstrated the challenges these students faced. No one had described or explained to them a prominent feature of their lives, so they did not possess the language to express it themselves.

In Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty – Building Complex Language, Dr. Juntune equips teachers with activities and simple strategies to help students build complex language skills. Activities such as sketching and 10-minute bulletin boards can be incorporated into many different curriculum areas.

In this 1-hour course, teachers will learn:

  • Why having a complex language structure is essential to academic achievement
  • Strategies for building complex language

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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21 reviews for Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty – Building Complex Language

  1. Pedro – DALLAS ISD (verified owner) –

    It was well organized and to the point.

  2. Patricia – DALLAS ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed this course. It helped me to think about how to help my students build their verbal skills.

  3. Bridget – DALLAS ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas for elementary teachers. Would like to see this scaled up to a High school classroom.

  4. Christina – DALLAS ISD (verified owner) –

    Dr. Juntune was a great presenter and made the course very interesting.

  5. Thomas – Springfield City School District (verified owner) –

    Great ideas for student led activities.

  6. Scarlet – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –

    Is grate, because it help us with ideas to how to help our student to build vocabulary.

  7. Brenda – DALLAS ISD (verified owner) –

    Great presentation.

  8. Mayra – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Good.

  9. Amber – HALLETTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –

    Very interesting

  10. Guadalupe – DALLAS ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked it, very useful and it presented its case on verbal intelligence very well and gave me a great sense of purpose for understanding and implementing strategies to build verbal intelligence.

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