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.
Raymond – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
This course helped me see how effective I can enhance the verbalizing of non verbal or limited verbal students.
Angel – HERTFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course. I feel like there were many tips that I can now implement in my own arsenal as a new teacher.
Kelly – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune is great at describing effective practiced that will support and enhance students’ verbal abilities. I highly recommend this one!
Linda – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course . It gave me alot of information that I didn’t know
Amanda – Morgan Local Schools (verified owner) –
It was useful.
Cynthia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I think it is a very good course.
Kelly – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
Her way to talking about the development of language was very easy to listen to. She was a very interesting study person.
Reynaldo – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very good training.
Ricardo – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent Course
maria – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Good course and necessary to take yearly so we can stay on top of all the key points of working with gifted students.