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.
Carlota – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Improving verbal communication in chilren from poverty increases their academic performance in school.
Frank – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Okay
Mary – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great introduction to the topic
IVAN – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
The theory is great. Yet, there are very few specific techniques to take back home. In other words, I now know what the problem is. But, I do not have many tools to deal with it.
Johanna – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It was a very interesting course that opened my eyes to understand how low SES students learn.
Tony – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
Good Info
Mary – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
Great information for designing a GT Program for Low SES
nora – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
awesome
Gabriela – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful and eye opener course
Wynett – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Honest
Straight-forwarded
Much needed