Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty (6-Hour)

$90.00

Presenter: Joyce Juntune
Core Area: Differentiated Curriculum
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6

Gifted students can be found in all walks of life. With more than seventeen percent of Texans living in poverty, it is vital that educators understand the different perspectives and challenges that create achievement gaps for gifted students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Learning how to close these gaps for gifted students can help you set them up for success throughout life.

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Gifted students fall through the cracks for a variety of reasons, but perhaps the saddest is that we don’t always recognize their giftedness because of a narrow definition of intelligence. Students living in poverty are often the victims of this definition bias. Why? Because our very definitions of intelligence often hinge on verbal skills, which are typically a weakness in gifted students from low socioeconomic environments. Joyce Juntune, Ph.D. explains in Closing the Achievement Gap, that the intelligence is undoubtedly there, but environment and lifestyle lend themselves to a different perspective and skill set that educators must learn to recognize and hone. 

In this 6-hour course, you will learn:

  • How poverty impacts achievement
  • What intelligence looks like in and out of poverty
  • How to foster verbal skills in students with nonverbal strengths
This course is aligned with 2016 ODE Teacher Competencies a, b, c, e, f, g and NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards 2.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1.

Dr. 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 where she teaches graduate-level courses in her expert areas of intelligence, child and adolescent development, educational psychology, giftedness, and creativity. Dr. Juntune earned her M.S. in curriculum and instruction from St. Cloud University and her Ph.D. in educational psychology from Texas A&M University.

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1303 reviews for Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty (6-Hour)

  1. Elena – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    I learned a lot.

  2. Alice – CARLISLE LOCAL (verified owner) –

    This course is very informative and will provide strategies that will be easily implemented in your classroom.

  3. michelle – CARLISLE LOCAL (verified owner) –

    Great ideas.

  4. Patricia – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    This course offers a lot of instructional strategies that can be used in the classroom that will keep the students engaged.

  5. Javier – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    This seminar was very informative.

  6. Veronica – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Enjoyed it very much

  7. Patricia – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner) –

    ok

  8. Mariceli – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative

  9. Sylvia – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    I learned about how important visual and complete sentences are.

  10. Victor – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    I really liked it.

  11. Paula – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    excellent

  12. Leticia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    its wonderful

  13. Gloria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    good!

  14. Samanta – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent explanations, very detailed , I quickly understood the main objective , especially about verbal and nonverbal; complex, and simple. Sketching and visuals is definitely important.

  15. Juan – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    great concepts

  16. Yolanda – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –

    I loved this course. It was informative as well as a learning experience for classroom strategies.

  17. Trinidad – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    I really enjoyed it and learned a lot

  18. Ashley – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

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  19. Claudia – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

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  20. Tara – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative

  21. Vanessa – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very interesting.

  22. Diana – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    This course be relevant to all learners including those in elective classes,

  23. eduardo – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    excellent course. i wish we had more time to teach

  24. Amanda – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    It was interesting and never thought about nonverbal memory recall. This is going to be very helpful.

  25. Laura – ZAPATA COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    This course is very informative and provides great ideas.

  26. Yvonne – ZAPATA COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    This course is very interesting and has many useful ideas that can be incorporated in our classrooms.

  27. Patricia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    It is important all students despite their socioeconomic status be taught and challenged the same across the board. The achievement gap must be closed in order to better our future leaders.

  28. Dolores – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    This was very informative and insightful.

  29. Jordan – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –

    This was a great learning opportunity. I appreciate the flexibility.

  30. Denice – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –

    it was a great learning opportunity. it was very detailed and informational. I will implement a lot of this learning in my teaching.

  31. CASSIDY – REYNOLDSBURG CITY (verified owner) –

    I think this course was very informative.

  32. Graciela – WALLER ISD (verified owner) –

    I loved listening to Dr. Junetenth. She is informative, knowledgeable and funny. The ideas and information are definitely ones that i can readily apply to my classroom.

  33. Diana – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    I would rate this course with 5 stars. This course is an eyeopener and it also serves as a refresher to learn new ways on identifying those students and also to cope with their different abilities.

  34. Sally – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner) –

    Very informative

  35. Laura – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    The course was very informative. It gave great insight on nonverbal students are just as smart as verbal students. Nonverbal students need to develop their verbal skills to achieve academic success.

  36. Irma – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    This training will help teachers understand students in poverty and how their minds work.

  37. Jose – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative and interesting. What is learned, one is motivated to implement.

  38. Cassandra – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Enjoyed some strategies.

  39. Steven – CARLISLE LOCAL (verified owner) –

    Good course, it gave a lot to think about moving forward.

  40. Christina – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course has many activities that are fun and interesting.

  41. Staci – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –

    great

  42. Teresita – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    This course is wonderful and gives great ideas to help students not only in poverty but those who are struggling academically.

  43. Megan – WALLER ISD (verified owner) –

    This course is very interesting if you teach in a title 1 school. I really liked it and related to it.

  44. Mike – CARLISLE LOCAL (verified owner) –

    Good.

  45. Raul – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    I think it was very informative…Great learning experience!

  46. Jason – MEDINA VALLEY ISD (verified owner) –

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  47. Adriana – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –

    Somewhat repetative

  48. Kathy – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative

  49. Norma – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course really made me stop and think about taking things a slowly and simple to get the students to understand. A sort of way of building a good base.

  50. Melissa – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative.

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