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.
Dolores – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great info for our SES students.
christine – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting, I never would have thought about this, even though I know that class (SES) and communication has much to do with success outside the home.
Charlotte – BOLING ISD (verified owner) –
This course can help educators bridge the gap between students with varied socioeconomic backgrounds.
alonso – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
5. This was a great eye opener for me. I will definitely use some of these skills with the students.
Sylvia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It was an interesting course where it explains why the lack of understanding of low socioeconomic status kids have in the classroom
Nate – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
This was a very informative course and gave me lots to think about and consider for use in my classroom!
Denisse – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
great
Sarah – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
These are helpful strategies.
Nicole – GAHANNA-JEFFERSON CITY (verified owner) –
I loved learning about testing and understanding what scores mean. A lot of times we see scores and deflect to the numbers that we are told to look at vs. understanding the relationships between numbers.
Ginny – FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
The gist of this course is we find students who are gifted in non verbal areas, but put them in a GT program that is steeped in verbal ability.