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. Abigail – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    These are some very useful modules that teachers can use to help develop the nonliguistic students by working with mind sketching, memory sequencing, and helping develop that complex language. I plan to use these strategies in my classroom this year.

  2. Annabel – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    Really enjoyed the mindsketching exercises presented by Dr. Juntune. I love her presentation of her mindsketching models and exercises and the explanations on why this method works.

  3. Kevin – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –

    Good course.

  4. Sarah – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    I learn so much from from these videos.

  5. Sandra – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative

  6. Linda – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    I loved this course. Very interesting.

  7. Francisco – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent way to build academic vocabulary.

  8. Edith – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was informational and eye opening.

  9. Alma – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    I think this was an excellent course. I see that students need a lot of opportunities to develop their verbal skills, and teachers need to develop those skills so students can be successful. I will use the strategies Dr. Juntune presented in this course.

  10. Roel – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Great course.

  11. Rosa – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –

    I think the course was amazing!

  12. Enrique – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    Very, very informative

  13. Ana – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative and can be used to help students in poverty learn better.

  14. Melinda – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    I really liked the activities shown.

  15. ESTRELLA – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course is great to understand the issues and the barriers that students face.

  16. tina – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    Excellent course! Totally agree with mind sketching.

  17. Janet – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    This course was great! I was provided with many wonderful ideas and facts.

  18. Magda – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative!

  19. Miriam – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –

    good

  20. Patricia – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    Great information and strategies!

  21. RAQUEL R – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was informative, interactive and fun.

  22. Amanda – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    Great course! Learned a lot of valuable information.

  23. Laura – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –

    Great information.

  24. Shawna – HPS – WEST TX (verified owner) –

    It was good

  25. Kathryn – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –

    Great

  26. Sonia – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –

    I love this course because I can relate to the students targeted in this training.

  27. Eric – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –

    Very inciteful

  28. Nicole – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    online

  29. Carmen – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed learning about the different strategies that I can use to build verbal intelligence.

  30. James – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –

    The course was easy to navigate and the instruction was simple to understand. I learned many different strategies to teach not only impoverished students, but ALL students.

  31. Andrea – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –

    I think this course builds upon a great way to connect the resources and tools from Gifted and Talented to a more broad spectrum -at risk students. It also incorporates what we know about bilingual education and literacy research and how important it is the development of correct and structured language.

  32. Marcie – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    I liked that this course gave several strategies to implement.

  33. Elena – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    If you’re looking for strategies to help students strengthen their memory, verbal skills, comprehension skills, and writing skills, I highly recommend you take this training. Dr. Joyce Juntune, Ph.D. combined her personal experiences, research, and teaching experiences (all levels) to make this training forever memorable! I loved this course!

  34. Martha – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    This is a very interesting course presented in a very teachers-friendly manner to put in practice with all of our classes, and as soon as possible.

  35. Maria – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    I think this an excellent course that should be viewed by all teachers.

  36. Linda – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was an eye opener. It has made me reflect, dig deep and truly change my mindset as to how to approach students raised in poverty. Dr. Juntune delves into specific ways to closing the achievement gap in such an engaging course.

  37. Ann – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was an extremely valuable course to take.

  38. Charlotte – BOLING ISD (verified owner) –

    This course discusses a valuable truth about low socioeconomic students and addresses simple methods to close the gap among all students.

  39. Sandra – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    It was very informative.

  40. Michelle – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –

    This course was well developed and sequenced

  41. Kristin – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner) –

    This course brought to light a new way to look at knowledge, memory and learning.

  42. bara – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –

    This course is very informative and it allows teachers to be armed with tools to develop students’ verbal intelligence through shared activities and techniques.

  43. Martin – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –

    Great

  44. Carolina – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    I love this course. I has a lot of valuable information and tools that we can use to support our students.

  45. Maimoona – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (LUBBOCK) (verified owner) –

    This course is very interactive and fun. Really enjoyed it.

  46. Raymond – HPS – WEST TX (verified owner) –

    This course was fantastic in a way to have me think that there are ways to reach those underprivileged kids to learn in this sophisticated world.

  47. Lara – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (LUBBOCK) (verified owner) –

    This was great information because I work in a low income school and we are always looking for ways to improve our teaching. I relate to so much of what she said and I understand now how the ideas she gave would work better!

  48. Sharon – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –

    This course presented a lot of good ideas and strategies that I plan to implement in my course.

  49. Hilda – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –

    I would have liked to hear how it looks like for 6th graders and for specific contents like Reading, and Grammar.

  50. Cesar – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –

    great strategies

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