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.
Jennifer – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Great strategies for building students’ memory. Implementing sketching daily for helps develop writing and verbal skills. Students begin to think more abstractly because they don’t put in all the details as they would a drawing.
Laurine – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Useful strategies
Katy – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Loved how she encouraged us to try the mind sketching activity ourselves.
Mary Wright – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Loved the strategy of sketching
Julie – LANCASTER CITY (verified owner) –
Some beneficial ideas, but may be more helpful for the primary grades.
Francisco – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It is useful to know how our minds work.
Stephanie – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
She talks very fast.
Kallie – Archbold Area Schools (verified owner) –
This was not my favorite course. Very elementary.
John – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course. I can’t wait to learn more from Dr. Juntune!!
kathleen – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course and found several strategies I will use in my classroom.