Description
During this 1-hour course, Dr. Juntune shares the findings of research started at Texas A&M University and the interventions being implemented in El Paso ISD to change the way we view and serve gifted students from poverty.
In this course you will learn three steps to improving success rates for low SES:
- Mind Sketching: A teaching technique that encourages students to sketch out the concept behind their answer while they come up with the words to communicate it.
- Building Verbal Intelligence: Children living in poverty have a simple language structure and we must give them a complex language structure.
- How to design a Gifted Program Specifically For These Students
Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
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.
Rebecca – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
This is a very helpful class especially teaching in a Title 1 school.
Donna – CHARDON LOCAL (verified owner) –
I thought Dr. Junetune was very knowledgeable about her subject. The course was very straightforward and is something that I can use in my classroom. I found it quite interesting that they encourage homogeneous classes for these students.
Celeste – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Very useful for low SES!
Sridevi – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
It has wonderful ideas for developing vocabulary for low SES students.
Sylvia – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Gave a very extensive insight on non- verbal students
Lindsay – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This was very interesting and applicable to my classroom. I am not very knowledgeable about many of the people and terms she referenced during this course, so I learned a lot.
Terry – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
This particular course is good. It talks about the two types of intelligences and the affect one has on the other. While there is information useful in the classroom, when it gets into testing and so on, it focuses mainly on the needs of administration rather than that of a line teacher. Line teachers have no say in the type of testing done with our students. I did like the affirmation of helping students learn to speak in complete sentences, using concrete detail.
Norman – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Fast paced, lots of information, pause as needed to digest the statistics she provides.
Victoria – FRONTIER LOCAL (verified owner) –
This provides a good connection between poverty and giftedness.
Maritza – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting