Description
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 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.
Amber – DALLAS ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course to offer ideas to help low socioeconomic status students become more verbal in vocabulary and language use.