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.
Naomi – HUNTSVILLE ISD – TEXAS ONLINE PREP (verified owner) –
I gained some very useful ideas for helping my middle school students with their studies. Some of my students don’t have the established pathways to retain the information – let alone build on it.
Allen – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent Course.
Erika – PALACIOS ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting ways to help students learn and remember complex material.
Jaime – HPS – WEST TX (verified owner) –
Awesome, quick, and effective
Erika – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course helps educators reach and understand students under poverty
Anthony – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Overall, amazing information. However, it is highly focused on lower grade levels. This course gives great ideas which can creatively be implemented in smaller components throughout the higher grade levels. Very interactive, and easy to complete.
Melissa – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Really learned a lot about this topic.
Ivy – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
It was great!
Sarah – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very useful information!
Vedette – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and I learned a lot. I will use the ideas presented in my own classroom.
Lauren – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
This was a very informative course. Loved it.
Marianita – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
It was easy to follow and engaging.
Tessa – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
can work on my own time!
Rebecca – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Course was very insightful
Lashonda – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informational and useful strategies I can use in everyday practice in my classroom.
Daniel – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
awesome
Katrina – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome content. Great training!
Stacy – ASHTABULA AREA CITY (verified owner) –
There are so many ideas from this course that I can’t wait to try with my class!
Aiden – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
This was an excellent course.
elsie – SPRINGFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I would tell others of this course because its valuable to all educatous.
Marco – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Great information to help build non verbal students.
Dario – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course.
Claribel – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It was very interesting and had a lot of helpful ideas for the classroom.
CRYSTAL – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course was interesting and very informative.
IRMA G – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I really liked the strategies she presented and feel they are easily incorporated into our teaching.
Haley – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Very enlightening.
Jennifer – NEWARK CITY (verified owner) –
This was a great course to learn about memory skills and mindsketching. I took many ideas from this course and will implement them into my classroom.
Bethany – SPRINGFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great information! Lots of ideas to use in my classroom
MARIA C – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I really like this course it was very easy to understand and the activities were great for me to practice with my students
Wendy – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and engaging modules.
Iris – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informational on defining nonverbal and verbal intelligences. It was instructional in presenting the different strategies that can be used to help build our students’ verbal intelligence.
VERONICA – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This is an excellent workshop to assist educators meet the needs and challenges of our students.
Stephanie – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Course was very helpful and informational. Great !
GABRIELA A – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I understood the connection between the importance of verbal intelligence and the lack of practicing that skill if family and teachers do not activate it in a child.
Hector – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course opened my eyes to a great way to better help my tier 3 students. Sometimes they have a hard time writing or even speaking, so sketching and the other strategies shown here will better my understanding of my students’ way of thinking.
Gregory – DAYTON CITY (verified owner) –
Good way to review info last heard in grad school.
Maritza – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
It was a very good course, very informational and shared a lot of good ideas.
Debra – SPRINGFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This was excellent for me as I teach in a school that has a high incidence of students in poverty. I highly recommend it to others.
Peter – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
It does a great job of discribing how to use sketching to activate better memory, and gives ideas on how to connect the ideas they have learned to in a meaningful way
Edith – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Practical way of teaching low SES students.
Laurie – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
It is interesting.
Justin – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
There are definitely some good strategies shown here. It would best be done in person with a group to get the most of the sketching and sharing activities.
gary – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This was great for elementary school teachers, but I would like to see it more focused on high school to make it more useful for high school teachers.
Claudia – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course. Very interesting.
Claudia – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
The information provided went into depth.
Patricia – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I was extremely impressed by Dr. Juntune. This was very helpful. She has activities that allowed me to understand how students need a linguistic and non-linguistic form to complete learning.
Heather – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
There was lots of useful information.
Beatriz – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Learn so much about this cousrse.
Cristina – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course and how it applied for all students
TRACY – SPRINGFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This is the best training I have had on closing the gap in poverty. Dr. Juntune explains the difference in how our students learn and shows numerous ways to build verbal intelligence, complex languages and memory. I am excited to try these with my students.