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.
Monica – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Austin – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
great
Lynda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Victor – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I think this is a great course. I can use this information in my classroom every day to help my students to succeed.
Elhma – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I liked this subject and I learned other perspective to understand my nonverbal LEP students.
Juana – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Very interesting to learn how all students have the capabilities to excel regardless of their economic status. All students can learn and will learn when given the tools and the opportunties to help them acquire language.
Leonorilda – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas on abstract learning.
christine – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
The strategies explained are great, but seem geared toward elementary students. The problem in high school is that strategies most often are geared toward younger children. Most trainings use elementary as the standard.
Maria – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great information and strategies.
Eunice – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very good information