Description
One of the most important foundational aspects of working with gifted students is developing a deep understanding of them. What motivates them? How do they think? And how do they learn? Joyce Juntune, Ph.D. answers these questions and more in this 6-hour course. Dr. Juntune focuses on the nature and needs of gifted students, including the characteristics, social-emotional needs, and programming options. Understanding your gifted students is the starting point for preparing them for life-long success.
In this course you’ll learn to:
- Understand sources of energy in gifted students
- Identify indicators of giftedness
- Differentiate between high achievers and gifted students
- Understand statistical distribution
- Identify the four types of gifted students
- And much more!
This course is aligned with 2016 ODE Teacher Competencies d, e, and NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.5.
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, and she teaches graduate-level courses in her expert areas of intelligence, child and adolescent development, educational psychology, giftedness, and creativity. Dr. Juntune earned her master’s degree in curriculum instruction from St. Cloud University and her Ph.D. in educational psychology from Texas A&M University.
Renee – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Training was very informative in gifted students. All information is vital for all classroom teachers. I highly recommend this session.
Eduardo – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
good
Victoria – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
An informative and interesting course
Erica – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Helpful and informative
Vicente – Private Pay (verified owner) –
The instructor is highly knowledgeable and engaging. This is a great course.
Saul – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It is a very detailed and helpful course. Definitely helps clear up certain questions I had before starting this course.
Brooke – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
take it
Guadalupe – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course can help one understand not just gifted students bur students in general.
Laura – ROSCOE ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune has a great personality with wonderful examples to keep you engaged.
Isabel – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course is filled with important and helpful information for the teacher who may be trying to understand how best to help a high achiever or gifted learner in his/her classroom.
Nall – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
interesting
Derek – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
It was fine.
Kymberlen – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Helpful for understanding options to help GT advance.
Cathy – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
great course
Jessica – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
excellent course
Lori – BENJAMIN LOGAN LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course was extremely informative and contained useful information.
LISA – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
informative
Daisy – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Good help!
Susanna – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoy the short clips of lesson and resources.
Jeanne – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune is an expert in her field. She is an invaluable resource of real-life experience with gifted students across all levels of academia. Dr. Juntune and the knowledge she shares is easy to conceptualize, process and apply in the classrooms of today. Grateful.
Kirstie – ROSCOE ISD (verified owner) –
Allows you to think and process your own students, provides examples, resources, and my biggest take away was acceleration is the best option but only in groups.
Denise – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Yes, this course might be lengthy however Dr. Juntune makes it entertaining. I really enjoyed the course and all that I learned.
Luisa – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
I thought it was extremely informative and engaging.
Claudia – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This course is a great overview of the most important things to know about gifted students.
Joaquin – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Needs updating
Jenesiz – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course.
liza – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
It was great information.
Abbie – Brazosport ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course.
Raquel – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
great
Emmanuel – MISSION CISD (verified owner) –
Awesome course
Sheridan – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting and informative
Erin – HUNTSVILLE ISD – TEXAS ONLINE PREP (verified owner) –
This was very intriguing and I loved the resources at the end! As a teacher and also a parent of a gifted child, this was a great training!
Betsy – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
Long and mostly centered on secondary school.
David – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I like this couse because it really explains in detail the differentation instruction for the gifted students .
Brad – NORTH ZULCH ISD (verified owner) –
good course
Jason – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative and beneficial.
Dorothy – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course helped me to be aware of the necessity of differentiation for gifted students.
Jordan – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
I learned a lot of helpful information.
Taylor – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
Helpful!
Noemi – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It gave very good information.
Angela – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
Great course.
Amanda – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great course on GT
Tamara – VIDOR ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.
Theresa – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Technology
Sonia – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course is very Informative.
Erika – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
this was great
John – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course was sufficient.
Elizabeth – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
It simple enough to understand
Alfonso – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
The information was thorough, but I would like to see examples of work that a GT student will do in comparison to regular students.
Pamela – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Very helpful