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.
Jessica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great
Susan – PALACIOS ISD (verified owner) –
Students from poverty have very different lives and different ways of speaking and understanding. Their verbal skills may be undeveloped. Dr Juntene helps explain this problem and offerers concrete methods to build verbal literacy and improve intelligence.
Hannah – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
It has information that can be used directly in the classroom
Steve – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Good for elementary or Kindergarten teachers.
Carol – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I thought there were helpful ideas on how to develop better language.
John – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Nice class
Natasha – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
I loved the mind sketching strategy. I think it will be extremely useful for my students.
Ginger – Allen East Local Schools (verified owner) –
This course gives good strategies for building verbal skills.
Analise – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Very good–probably something I need to hear each year to remind me about methods for developing students minds.
Robert – WODEN ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course as well as the previous one. I often have students sketch or draw in class, and now I see my efforts to use these skills in class justified.