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.
Crystal – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Susan – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This was very informative and succinct at the same time. Extremely helpful!
Brenda – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great deal of data and information!
Tracy – Region 17 (verified owner) –
This course was very interesting and I learned some new things.
DeShawna – EVERMAN ISD (verified owner) –
Helpful to understand the differences between nonverbal and and verbal children.
Sara – FORT BEND ISD (verified owner) –
I thought we would have more concrete take aways for building the intelligence.
Jennifer – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting.
Maria – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
I like that verbal intelligence is put out there. It’s basically exposure and that’s what most of our low ses students are missing. Even through spending so much time on the internet. Low ses students are not using the internet to grow and/or expose themselves to “what’s out there.”
Lorena – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Asewome course!!!!!
Amy – Coshocton City Schools (verified owner) –
Great information….somewhat redundant of closing the gap for students in poverty.