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

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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Description

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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1507 reviews for Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty (6-Hour)

  1. Diana – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    This GT course helped me better understand how to support gifted students through engaging, higher-level thinking activities.

  2. Lisa – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –

    Lots of great ideas on how to build the verbal intelligence of children in poverty! She also did a great job of explaining the gap of verbal intelligence and non-verbal intelligence between middle class and those in poverty. One of the better online trainings I have had in a long time!

  3. Vanessa – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    Great and informative.

  4. Gia – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –

    This coarse was very informative and very easy to follow.

  5. Amber – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –

    I love that this course gave many simple and effective activity examples to easily incorporate into the classroom learning environment.

  6. Elsa – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed this session.

  7. River – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –

    It was good

  8. Tony – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    Great insight and knowledge that I learned from this course!

  9. Marissa – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    Great and very interactive!

  10. Jaime – CIRCLEVILLE CITY (verified owner) –

    Engaging and lots of good information

  11. ERICA – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –

    It was actually very helpful in personal view and in area of my teaching. local to me

  12. EMMANUEL – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was very informative and I learned alot from it.

  13. ALBINO – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –

    its good but long

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

    Excellent course.

  15. HUGO – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –

    It was a lot of information but overall it was very informative.

  16. AMANDA – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –

    Awesome workshop!

  17. Erika – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Great

  18. raven – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –

    it was interesting and informative

  19. XOCHITL – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –

    I give it a 5 because it has great information for teachers.

  20. REYES – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great course! Help develop verbal and nonverbal communication skills.

  21. Adrian – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    This course was very beneficial to me as an educator because it helps me teach these particular students.

  22. Rhonda – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    informative

  23. CLOTILDE – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –

    The information for this course was really good and the information taught was great.

  24. Sandra – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative.

  25. Dorothy – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    I liked the examples and information given in this training.

  26. KARINA – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –

    The way is organized, very simple to follow.

  27. Nevien – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –

    Great details and examples

  28. Denise – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –

    I really enjoyed it. Especially working with students of poverty.

  29. Caitlin – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –

    I found this course helpful.

  30. Elisa – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent course.

  31. Olga – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    Very engaging course!

  32. Eidario – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    This course was very informative.

  33. Ninfa – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –

    I liked the course a lot. I was able to actually participate. I am a first grade teacher. I often want to sit in their seats for a moment to see what they see. I was able to do that just by simply applying what I was learning to a mind sketch.

  34. Rocio – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –

    informative

  35. OSCAR – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –

    The course was well-organized, engaging, and provided reeal-world applications. It was taught by a knowledgeable instructor who communicvates effectively.

  36. Elvia – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative course!

  37. Annette – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –

    This was a fantastic course!

  38. Reyna – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –

    I really appreciated this course because it reaffirmed some of the strategies that I already use in class. I learned new knowledge through the simplicity of Dr. Juntune’s lectures. I really enjoyed the foundation of her memories as she grew up in a little town in MN.

  39. Brenda – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –

    I loved it!

  40. Lorraine – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –

    Great information

  41. Patrick – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –

    While there were some helpful ideas, I found many of her ideas to be redundant and mostly applicable to students who are in elementary and middle school.

  42. Jun – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –

    Good course

  43. Jason – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Very helpful and thoughtful to support low-performing students and fill in the gaps to support student success and comprehension.

  44. RICHARD – PEARSALL ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative, but not terribly applicable to secondary grades

  45. Amber – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –

    Very user friendly.

  46. Lauren – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –

    The course was interesting, with lots of information about drawing as a tool.

  47. Brian – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –

    Knowledgeable with intellectual guidance

  48. Omotayo – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –

    The course has valuables resources that can be used at all level of teaching. The ability to attach knowledge to object is one great tool that will without a doubt help students better recollect materials learned. There exist however limitations to how some of the contents of the materials can be used in subject that involved a lot of numbers.

  49. Martin – FORT STOCKTON ISD (verified owner) –

    The course was effective in helping understand the obstacles that existing in a students learning environment. The course offered many strategies and techniques for overcoming these obstacles.

  50. Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Easy to follow. Applicable to most classrooms.

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