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.
Christine – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner) –
I liked this course. It gave good examples of activities that can be done by students.
Rosa – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot on how to help my students and build their memory and how sketching will help them in their learning.
Amalia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
INFORMATIVE
Irma – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Maybe
celeste – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
Best PD I’ve had in years!!!
Blanca M – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I had lots of technical difficulties that didn’t allow me to take this class for almost a month. However, I learned so much that I can apply right away that all the struggles are totally forgotten. Great, great course. It should be mandatory for all teachers that work with children raised in poverty!
Monica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Karla – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative and interactive so it kept me focused and attentive
Jane – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
It is so long
Benjamin – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great course a lot of useful relevant information.
Lauren – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
I thought the course was extremely comprehensive and helpful.
Jaire – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It is informative and has great ideas to do in the classroom.
David – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course because it really explains to you how the brain works and why some students struggle with reading, reading comprehension, verbalization and memory. These are techniques teachers at all levels and grades should be using.
Chelsea – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
5 stars
Susana – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I absolutely loved it! I really liked that we wre given notes to keep for future reference. i enjoyed the manner in which Dr. Junetune approached the audience, as she had us participate thorughout the workshop. She was very clear and made emphasis where needed. I loved her presentation, I think she gave us teachers a great deal of strategies ans examples as how to teach our Llow socio economic student body and so we can guarantee academic achievement.
Cynthia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It’s a very informative course which will improve student learning and efficiency.
Cassie – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
It was very engaging, enlightening, and useful.
Sheila – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Great information, very interactive presentation.
Vanessa – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
The presentation was very informative. It gave me better insight as to how I can expose my low income students to many things without having to take them on field trips and how to better educate the students to close the learning gap these students come to school with.
Katie – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I think this course was very informative and offered resources truly applicable to my classroom and the demographic of my students. It was a very helpful piece of information to understand that students from povery, especially like those in my classroom that are learning a second language (as this is the purpose of my school) can be at an even greater deficit.
Lilian – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It’s very interesting and has concepts that are useful in the classroom.
Kristy – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
I loved this course! It was very interesting and well done by the presenter. There were enough interactive activities to build upon what was being learned.
Karen – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Great course! Dr. Juntune is very thorough in her explanations and ideologies.
Belinda – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
This was an awesome presentation with so many interesting facts and great activities with no preparation time.
Elizabeth – Region 17 ESC (verified owner) –
She has very good information about how kids can learn in different ways.
Leticia – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
I feel that this course helps you access the students that were not fortunate to have parents that talked to them about everything at a young age.
Cabreatha – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
The course was informative. I learn some strategies I will use this year. Also, I like how in was also interactive which gave me activities to also work on.
Juan – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting, relevant, and informative. I like the hands on approach.
Milissa – COLUMBIA-BRAZORIA ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course
Kyle – Region 17 ESC (verified owner) –
Very informative and well done. Incredibly useful information.
Leah – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It is so interesting!
YASMIN – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –
Its interesting and very informative with low effort strategies you may use almost immediately
ANGELICA – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course with a lot of information.
Ashley – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course! I felt that these are best practices we can easily use in our classrooms, in any subject area.
Reagan – Region 17 ESC (verified owner) –
great! I learned so much!
Bernice – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course to help teacher understand the achievement gaps and provide us with tools to improve our craft.
Nicholes – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course and taught me a lot about assisting students who may be at risk and behind due to poverty.
Jennifer – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
The information provided in this course was great. I can see myself implementing these practices with a variety of students, SPED, ELs, GT, and gen ed students. Thank you!
Alaina – Allen East Local Schools (verified owner) –
This course opened my eyes to the struggles of some of my very bright students who don’t perform well.
Brenda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Liliana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was a very informative and engaging course. It provided me with plenty of ideas to work with the development of verbal intelligence.
Laura – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune provided me with usable nuts-and-bolts strategies and backed them up with solid, research-based theory. I feel like I received tools I can use right away, and I understand WHY these things will work. That’s exactly what I want from a training like this!
Kenneth – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Very good for English teachers, no so much for math.
Hannah – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was extremely helpful in understanding the needs of diverse populations in education.
Gilbert – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
it was a good training in learning how how kids from poverty backgrounds learn.
Victoria – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
The training was great.
Sarah – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This course was engaging and informative. I like how Dr. Juntune incorporated her own life stories into her course. The course had my attention from beginning to end, while I also got to learn many strategies that I can implement into my classroom lessons to increase academic achievement amongst my students. Great course!
marsha – WODEN ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course very much.
Stacy – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed learning more about students raised in poverty, and the different ways to help then achieve success by closing linguistic and memory gaps for them.
Robert – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course is insightful and well executed. Discussion is both personable and relevant, with focus on providing meaningful context for why these strategies are needed when addressing students from low SES backgrounds.