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.
Kiva – Region 17 ESC (verified owner) –
It was very informative.
Allison – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Learn about poverty ids and how they learn. Also helps with your ESl students for learning.
Crystal – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course, very informative
melissa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Enjoyed it, helpful info. that I will be using in the classroom
Perla – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Learned many new strategies ready to use for my future students, that I wish I had known for my previous students.
Karen – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative with lots of examples
Brandi – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –
I think this is a very interesting course. I think that sketching could be a great tool in classrooms for students at all levels.
Juan – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I really liked it
Rosa – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
It had many great ideas and activities to use in the classroom to better serve our students and enhance and enrich their academic vocabulary and linguistic language.
Allison – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course had many great activities that I hope to use in my classroom. The topic was relevant to me as to the population of students that I teach.
Amanda – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
I liked this! I would like to take additional courses like this.
Mady – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
Very easy to follow and interesting!
Aurelia – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
Even at the high school level I’m excited to bring this into my on-level Chemistry classes. I think mind sketching wall charts and word walls with mind sketching will help all of the students, but especially the lower lever learners. I’m excited to try it this year and will start the year off gauging and working on memory capacity and introducing drawing and mind sketching to be used throughout the year. I also read to my students even though they are in high school!
Alex – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
I thought it was great!
Angela – COLUMBIA-BRAZORIA ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent Course!
Lauren – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
A lot of eye-opening information presented here. Understanding the implications of verbal to non-verbal score gaps is helpful for everyone to understand and her specific teaching and organizations strategies could be applied in a wide variety of school settings.
Meredith – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this course was very interesting.
Francisco – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I found the course to be very interesting and relevant to improve my teaching skills.
Ana – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
it is easy to manage…you can go as fast or slow as you need…you can use the note feature to check the wording
Ryan – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave me ideas for not only low SES students, but for all students. I feel like many of the strategies will be helpful to students of all SES backgrounds.
Nancy – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
This was one of the best training’s that I’ve been to. I learned so much about the different opportunities I can give my students to meet their needs. I will be using the methods taught in all areas of content.
Priscilla – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I found this course very informative and resourceful. Especially because I work with students who unfortunately are raised in poverty.
Ana – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent!
Shannon – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
I really like the new strategies that I have learned through this course. I can’t wait to implement them in my class next year!
Lori – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
This is a wonderful training with thoughtful, relevant, attainable, research-based goals.
Michelle – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
The information in this course was excellent. It was also a good reminder that teachers have to work harder in low SES schools to close the achievement gap for students raised in poverty.
Myra – Angleton ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative. It also pointed out some things that we often overlook at times.
Hannah – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I like that it has information that can easily be completed in the classroom.
Jeanette – Region 17 ESC (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course and learned some teaching tools that I will implement with my students. This is a course that I feel many teachers will enjoy and use in their classroom to build greater academic success, especially with their students of poverty.
Maria – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
The presenter has multiple strategies and ideas to build memory.
Matthew – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful for Eco-Dis and ELL students!
Nicole – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Duyen – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Great course on how to close the gap for students in poverty
Brittny – SHALLOWATER ISD (verified owner) –
There is a lot of good information and good examples.
Christina – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I liked this course. I feel like the last 2 hours were more helpful to me as a high school math teacher than the first 4 hours.
Yvette – SHALLOWATER ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of good information given and great examples provided.
Michele – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
I really feel like this content was so awesome, simple, easy to understand and implement and so important. I am glad I chose this series of lessons for my hours.
Johanna – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Raquel – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting points on verbal and nonverbal learning.
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
ok
Frances – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This is an excellent course and I highly recommend it. Specially when working with ELL students.
charlene – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This course is one of the most applicable and useful I have attended in quite a while. I have come away with an increased knowledge of areas where my students need help and several activities I can use to accomplish this.
Blanca – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It is a good course for teachers.
Sandra – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
The course presents activities I can easily implement in my lessons.
Ashley – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
It was informative.
Taylor – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Janet – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course was an eye-opener for me! I just assumed my students had the same interaction with their parents that I did as a child. But this course has made me see that isn’t so. Going forward, I will be looking to close the gap with these techniques.
Monica – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I really like this course because it gives you a better perspective on how you can help students that are raised in low income areas that do not always have the advantages that others have.
Ashley – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
This was amazing and very informative!!! It gave great ways to help close the gap for our students in poverty.
Patricia – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Great course on how to help all students, but especially students from poverty. Dr. Juntune gives lots of strategies, examples, and ideas that you can use everyday in every content of study.