Intelligence – What Is It and Why Is It Important

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

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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.