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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1449 reviews for Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty (6-Hour)

  1. Nicole – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    it was nice

  2. Teresa – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –

    Mind Sketching is very important in helping students attach a sketch to remember information

  3. Ruth – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –

    Great information.

  4. Elena – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –

    I loved Dr. Juntune’s presentation. She is engaging and provides realistically helpful tools for the classroom.

  5. Jodi Lynn – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent course with thought provoking perspective on how to approach instruction for children from poverty.

  6. Jeffrey – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –

    I was very interested in how to get the best out of low ses students and this gave me a better understanding of how to do that.

  7. Kim – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –

    This course provided great activities, with the research and reasoning that went along with each one. I came away with several practical activities to implement in the classroom.

  8. Robin – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was very informative and provided helpful, useful tools that can be incorporated into the classroom. It also allowed me to practice the skills myself so that I am prepared to use them with my students.

  9. Mendie – WALLER ISD (verified owner) –

    It was a very informative session. I like that most of her research is from a local district, making it easy to relate.

  10. Rachel – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –

    This is the most informative and actionable training I have done in YEARS! I did one-hour clips of this training last year, just for mindsketching, and now I feel like I actually know what it is and HOW to implement it!

  11. Gay – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    I teach at a low SES school. This was super interesing.

  12. Diana – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was very interesting. I would want to implement what I have learned in my classroom.

  13. Tuesday – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –

    Great information, video just a little to long

  14. Julisa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was extremely educational and helpful. I take with me many new ideas and activities that I can use in my classroom to help my students.

  15. Toni – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoy the style of teaching and opportunities to learn new content.

  16. Claudia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was interesting and offered strategies to improve memory.

  17. Anabel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    This course is full of great information that I will try to implement in my classroom.

  18. LINDSEY – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –

    I like that it was 6 hours.

  19. Deborah – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –

    Thank you for the information. It was very interesting.

  20. Sharon – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –

    Very interesting information!

  21. Yolanda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative and helpful to understand learning of students in poverty.

  22. Maria – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –

    I teach a ta low SES School, and I have been pondering and asking how can I help my students to learn, retrieve information and follow instructions.
    This course gave me great variety of strategies to help me to be successful and help my students to learn.

  23. Scott – Region 17 ESC (verified owner) –

    Great informational class.

  24. LaEricka – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was very informative.

  25. Oralia – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –

    I love the information given in the sessions which are very direct and well explained.

  26. Josie – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –

    This session was informative and relevant, along with the activities that helped put meaning and make connections.

  27. Yara – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –

    The training was well presented and explained very well. The information given will be very useful in the classroom

  28. Nan – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    This course has made me think about what students of poverty need in order to be successful in a regular classroom. It has made me more aware of how to help these students connect with the learning so that they are not left behind just because they learn differently.

  29. Kelli – VIDOR ISD (verified owner) –

    I really enjoyed this training. Dr. Juntune provides information and strategies that are easy to implement in a classroom with little preparation but that will make a big impact on students’ verbal learning.

  30. Elizabeth – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    Speaker was very engaging

  31. Jeffrey – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    Very useful and gave ideas that can be used in the classroom environment regardless of the level of instruction being taught.

  32. Karla – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    The presenter was very engaging

  33. Annabell – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD – SAN ANTONIO DISTRICT (verified owner) –

    I recommend this course since it gives a lot of strategies on how to work with socioeconomically disadvantaged students close the learning gap.

  34. Jennifer – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –

    The interactive aspects helped make the course more relevant.

  35. Alison – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    Lots of good information

  36. janet – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –

    This course is extremely valuable. I am a special educator with a mix of SES and the strategies will be a huge help for all the students.

  37. Mitzi – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent course to take

  38. Daniela – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent training! Dr. Joyce Juntune gave a thorough and very informative presentation for closing the achievement gap of students raised in poverty. The information presented is truly an eye opener to redirect our teaching practices and methods towards teaching ALL of our students. Overall, I enjoyed all the activities and strategies presented for building intelligence; I can’t wait to implement in my classroom!

  39. Blanca – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Great course, very helpful.

  40. Cathryn – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    This was a great course. I learned a lot that I will implement in my classroom next year.

  41. Aide – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    This is an excellent course for those teaching in a Title 1 school. We need to remember to build verbal intelligence and this course has excellent resources.

  42. Robert – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –

    These are great strategies to help your kid who struggle with memory.

  43. MELANIE – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –

    This is a great course. Mind sketching is a great tool to help students.

  44. Miguel – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    Informative course.I learned some great ideas for teaching literacy. I feel Mind-sketching is a great way for students to record their learning and then share their ideas with others. Then give them time to readjust their thinking, if need be. I agree with students communicating in complete sentences.

  45. Jessica – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –

    I was able to obtain information from this course that is easy to use in my day to day teaching.

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

    I enjoyed the instructor a lot. Very informative

  47. Kacie – CLEBURNE ISD (verified owner) –

    This was very helpful as I work with my students of poverty!

  48. Karen – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –

    I really enjoyed this course. I will be moving to a different campus with these demographics and this really HELPS give me a heads up on how to tailor my teaching to their learning.

  49. Georgina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Course was very detailed and provided enough examples of how to explore the theory presented in the course.

  50. Cheryl – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –

    Good information!

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