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.
Alma L – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very interesting and it opened my eyes to many things that are important to practice with my students.
Freida – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
This course, although labeled as gifted and talented, will benefit all students. This is one of the most impactful professional development courses I have taken.
Guadalupe – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
awesome strategies to use in class with low economic students to help them with vocabulary, talk in complete sentences and to help them learn and understand what we are teaching.
Jennifer – GAHANNA-JEFFERSON CITY (verified owner) –
Great course! Good, practical ideas to implement.
Natalie – EANES ISD (verified owner) –
I would have liked for some of the practices and activities to be optional.
Maikely – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was excellent.
Lynette – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
This class was very helpful when it comes to the minds of low income students.
Angela – COLUMBIA-BRAZORIA ISD (verified owner) –
Great training!
Shelly – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This course offers great activities for all grade levels. I teach 9th-12th grade and I found places in every unit for every subject where I can implement these learning strategies.
Dora – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Simple to understand.
Kambree – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
I loved this course I believe it was very beneficial. When the school year starts I am excited to take things I learned and incorporate them in my instruction.
Rheanna – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
It was easy to navigate
DAndra – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
The presenter for this course was interesting. I like how the modules are broken up and the time for each one was given. The quizzes were short.
Adriana – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I Like that it was very informative, and I can use it in my classroom.
JOSE – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
It was a great training. Verbal vs. non-verbal intelligence is so important to address.
Jessica – KENNEDALE ISD (verified owner) –
Strategies are easy to implement in the classroom.
Loren – HUGHES SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting and well taught
Sonia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative.
Melinda – BRAZOS ISD (verified owner) –
It was a good course that I have never taken. It showed lots of ways we can help students..
Andi – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Great info and strategies!
Megan – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –
Great real life examples that were easy to relate to and in turn learn from.
Lucy – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Great course!
Sonia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative on what a teacher should do to help students that are nonverbal become verbal.
Abby – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course is great! She explains how we can further assist our students in poverty classrooms.
Maria – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very informative and helps refresh and learn new ways to approach students in poverty area which helps build a better understanding.
Ann – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Autumn – VIDOR ISD (verified owner) –
video was informative and I learned new information about the way gifted minds work
Ernestina – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Kayleigh – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Gave me lots of new ideas to implement in my classroom!
Melissa – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas and useful information.
Dawn – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
very helpful with the verbal and nonverbal
Alexandria – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I loved learning to look at all children as having potential.
Heidi – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
This is great!!! Lots of great activities and easy to implement!
Hilda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great presentation and teaching and learning resources.
Elvia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was an eye opener. I learned so much about how children from poverty can learn.
Rebecca – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative.
SELINA – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful. I truly enjoyed it!
Timothy – EVERMAN ISD (verified owner) –
nice
Tywana – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
This was the most information course and I enjoyed learning how to reach my nonverbal students.
Norma – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
The course gave very valuable information concerning students who are raised in poverty in order to close the achievement gap. It is very important to build verbal intelligence in these students.
Lorena – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I like the way the lessons were develop, specifically the modeling of memory activities. In addition the inclusion of different aspects or parts of the lesson that should be daily performed, why to include them.
DEBRA – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course, not just for students in poverty, but all students can benefit from the strategies.
enedelia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative, I will be using ideas I learned from this course.
Kaitlyn – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
It was good because I work at a Title 1 school.
Karina – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this training.
Holly – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I can implement these strategies with students from a wide range of groups such as special ed and gifted.
Selena – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
It was great, I can’t wait to use some of the strategies I have learned in my classroom
Katy – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
I liked that this course gave me ideas I can use in my classroom immediately.
Ruth – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great course, to help learn about students who come from poverty and have learning gaps and how we as educators can help them learn.
Michele – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed listening to Mrs. Juntune. I loved the practice sessions that helped me to better understand how to use this information with my students. I also appreciated that this material would work for my kinder kids as well as older students. It is a lot of information though and might be best if done in two days instead of one like I did it.