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.
Isabel – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting, informative.
Abigail – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
There was good information about the “why” behind a lot the missing verbal ability, but I felt that the course was lacking in action. There was an assumption that we were aware of some of the educational concepts she was addressing.
Azucena – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting take on poverty and how we can build up our students.
BRENDA – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great insight from presenter as she references various studies, educators, and data.
Thelma – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Loved it
Abby – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Informing and inspiring on how to better assist our low-SES population.
Anne – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Provided a lot of information and opened my eyes to developing students verbal intelligence along with the curriculum
Elsa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Information presented well; interesting and useful
Erin – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
Fantastsic!
Ninfa – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
The training provided a lot of insight into why students who are low socioeconomic struggle more.