Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty - Building Complex Language

Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty – Building Complex Language

$20.00

Presenter: Joyce Juntune
T-TESS Domain:  Planning 1.1, Planning 1.4, Instruction 2.1, Instruction 2.2, Instruction 2.4
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1

Developing verbal intelligence is what makes the difference between academic success and failure for students raised in poverty. Most of these students score well in nonverbal intelligence but well below their peers in verbal intelligence. In Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty – Building Complex Language, Dr. Joyce Juntune helps teachers identify how building complex language helps students develop their nonverbal skills into verbal skills, which is the key to helping them towards academic achievement.

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When working with students from a low-income community, Dr. Joyce Juntune discovered that some of the students didn’t know the word for "train" or how to describe what it did — even though the train tracks ran through the middle of their neighborhood! This clearly demonstrated the challenges these students faced. No one had described or explained to them a prominent feature of their lives, so they did not possess the language to express it themselves.

In Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty – Building Complex Language, Dr. Juntune equips teachers with activities and simple strategies to help students build complex language skills. Activities such as sketching and 10-minute bulletin boards can be incorporated into many different curriculum areas.

In this 1-hour course, teachers will learn:

  • Why having a complex language structure is essential to academic achievement
  • Strategies for building complex language

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104 reviews for Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty – Building Complex Language

  1. ROXANNE – HIDALGO ISD (verified owner) –

    I really enjoyed this presentation.

  2. Maria – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –

    Very ell explained, it is important for teachers to know, understand and always to take in consideration student demographics when planning.

  3. Griselda – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –

    Its very good.

  4. Andrea – EVERMAN ISD (verified owner) –

    It was good and to the point

  5. Melissa – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative

  6. Scott – BEXLEY CITY (verified owner) –

    Simplistic; needs to be updated with recent research on vocabulary and low-SES; about 40% of it is stories by grandma that take time away from really digging into vocabulary development.

  7. Maria – EVERMAN ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked the presenter, she was very engaging with her stories.

  8. Shea – EVERMAN ISD (verified owner) –

    Very Good

  9. Rita – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great ideas!

  10. Sandra – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great perspective into the minds of children living in poverty.

  11. Denise – Napoleon Area City Schools (verified owner) –

    Such great information for all students.

  12. Shannon – WODEN ISD (verified owner) –

    Great content.

  13. Elizabeth – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    great training!

  14. Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Great training

  15. Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Very well design course

  16. Monica – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –

    they love this

  17. Samantha – PROGRESO ISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent and useful information applicable to ALL learners!

  18. Lisa – SPRINGFIELD LOCAL – LUCAS COUNTY (verified owner) –

    I like the topic and the speaker was very engaging.

  19. John – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –

    Good info to assist me changing my ways

  20. Ernesto – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    The course was appropriate and helpful to teachers.

  21. Maricela – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    It was informative

  22. Debbie – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    This presenter presents the information in a very basic and relatable way. She is easy to understand and gives us opportunities to practice and extend the activities.

  23. Hilda – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –

    Easy to follow, eye opening to different ways to use space in the classroom and make connections.

  24. Karen – EAST CHAMBERS ISD (verified owner) –

    great ideas concerning educating students who live in poverty

  25. Nora – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    great!

  26. Velma – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was very interesting and eye opening.

  27. Gloria – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –

    Great information and verbal illustrations in this session. I am already thinking of how I can apply this information to my classroom.

  28. Diane – DENVER CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    Great information and ideas.

  29. Cynthia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    It was interesting.

  30. Barbara – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –

    It is realistic because I work in a poverty area.

  31. Mark – GRANBURY ISD (verified owner) –

    a bit long and boring

  32. Valerya – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    awesome!

  33. Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was interesting.

  34. Nora – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Eye opening information.

  35. Rosie – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –

    This is a great course with working ideas that will help you focus on building language.

  36. GRACIELA – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –

    Course is prseenting good options on how to reach all students.

  37. Rosa – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Wow! Eye opening and makes me think of ways to better serve my students to close the gap.

  38. Selma – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    I liked the examples she uses for the classroom environment.

  39. Angela – COLUMBIA-BRAZORIA ISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent!

  40. Elia – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –

    Interesting insight into linear language structure

  41. Jenny – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Great information; this is a topic that needs to be talked about and addressed more

  42. Letycia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Absolutely helpful

  43. Milissa – COLUMBIA-BRAZORIA ISD (verified owner) –

    great

  44. Rosie – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    Provided thorough explanation of topic content.

  45. Christy – Private Pay (verified owner) –

    Great course

  46. Jason – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –

    great information

  47. Leslie – MARION CITY (verified owner) –

    I would recommend this course to others.

  48. Rachel – MARION CITY (verified owner) –

    Loved it

  49. Pam – CUERO ISD (verified owner) –

    Liked the context, very relatable, clear and concise

  50. krystal – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –

    I always enjoy her workshops

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