Essentials for Teaching – Eyes on the Goal – What Year Are You Teaching For?

Description

When it comes down to it, what we as teachers are doing in our classrooms is really about our students’ futures — not just about this week, month, or year. In this brief lesson from our Essentials series, Joyce Juntune, Ph.D., invites you to think about the skills your students will need when they are 30 and to reflect on whether what you’re teaching today will still matter to them in the future.

• Identify the year for which you should be teaching
• Keep your teaching focused on your students’ futures
• Get students involved in connecting classroom activities with the skills they think they’ll need as adults
• Involve other teachers in thinking toward the future as well. 

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.