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.
Rebecca – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
It is very helpful to have concrete strategies to help build verbal intelligence.
Betsy – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune presents many helpful, real-world ideas.
Julie Emmons – TROTWOOD-MADISON CITY (verified owner) –
If you teach children of poverty, this is a great 1 hour course!
Irene – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
I was confused by the mind sketching in the beginning, but in made sense as the video progressed.
Nicole – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
Mind sketching is another tool I will be able to use in the classroom
Jennifer – FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Mind sketching is a great tool for students with limited language.
Terry – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
While I understand the need there was to build the foundation in the Part 1 of the training, I think that a little less of part 1 and a little more of part 2 would be better. Part two gives teachers practical strategies that can be implemented in the classroom. I’m not quite certain how I would implement this is my Advanced Placement English Language and Composition course, but I can see, based upon our student population, how it might be useful for some in my Honors English 2 classes.
Victoria – FRONTIER LOCAL (verified owner) –
Excellent follow up course which delves deeper into how to assist in teaching literacy with challenging situations.
Maritza – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful
julie – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
this is geared towards younger children. I would have preferred that to be in the description. I teach high school