Description
In this 1-hour course “What is Intelligence and Why Does it Matter?” you’ll hear from Dr. Joyce Juntune, a leading expert in the field of education, why it is essential for the success of all students that we begin talking about intelligence in education.
In this course you will learn:
- What intelligence is and isn’t
- What leaders in the field of intelligence have to say
- How intelligence correlates with success in life
- The impact of “g” factor on intelligence
- And the impact that intelligence has in the classroom
- The connection between intelligence and abstraction
- How to build abstraction in 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.
Valerie – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
Good
PATRICIA C – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Gabriela – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
great information
Karen – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
This was a good course, I do feel it moved really fast and it was a lot of information to take in a short amount of time.
Shayla – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
There was some great content provided in this course. It helped me think about intelligence differently.
Guadalupe – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
It is very informative and complex.
Blanca – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
Well explained, easy to follow.
Erika – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and something we don’t think much about.
Isabel – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoy learning new concepts about how intelligence develops, and how we may help our students to develop it, and how to reinforce the difference types of intelligence.
Johanna – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
It’s really important to review this important information to better serve our students and provide them with life time tools.