Description
Do you know the effects of poverty on your classroom? Poverty impacts a student’s intelligence and achievement. This is particularly evident in verbal and nonverbal gaps and in memory. Even poverty at the earliest moments of life can have long-term effects on a child. Thankfully, there are ways that educators can address these issues and help students in poverty reach their potential. In this 3-hour course led by Dr. Joyce Juntune, a nationally renowned consultant, educators will learn about how to serve gifted students raised in poverty. Dr. Juntune draws from years of research, both her own and others professionals’, to create sound strategies for supporting these students.
After taking this course, educators will walk away knowing:
- Reasons for gaps in intelligence scores
- Strategies for building complex language
- Mind sketching strategies
- Memory building strategies
- Best practices for serving gifted students in poverty
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.
Cynthia – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas I will be using activities that I learned with my students.
Annette – HILLSBORO ISD (verified owner) –
Great instructor!
Allison – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
The information was very insightful, but I did not see the relation to poverty like I had hoped.
Toshiba – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
This is a very good course. I like how Dr. J, related each brain growth activity to the profession.
Christina – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course.
Sandra – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Learned new ideas to implement in the classroom.
kristen – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
I think it was a little low level for advanced highschool
Gordon – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I got a lot of information throughout the course.
Leslie – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
great
Juan – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Excellent strategies for making connections and complex language, and building on schema