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.
Joe – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Gives a better understanding of how to develop thinking and creativity
Shawna – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Short and sweet, but with a lot of great information.
Robert – SANDUSKY CITY (verified owner) –
Creating better speakers not only helps the students in their future, but also creates more dialogue to exchange in future academic endeavors.
Josh – GROVEPORT MADISON LOCAL (verified owner) –
efficient
Julia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting
Ceci – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I like the logic behind her theory and that she has used in practice.
Mayra – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Good.
Margaret – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
good
Candace – EVERMAN ISD (verified owner) –
This mini-course was very beneficial in that it provided me examples of how to use the strategy in the classroom. It is a rather simple concept to teach regarding implementation and highly applicable.
Roberto – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Okay