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.
Michelle – SAN DIEGO ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed the content of this course and I want to learn more about mindsketching.
Sarita – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I love the content taught, it will help my students and my own as well.
Charlesetta – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
It was a very informative and well organized presentation.
Andrea – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –
Fantastic. I believe this course should be required of any teacher on a Title 1 campus.
Margarita – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This Is an excellent course.
Melissa – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –
This course has been very captivating and useful. I only wish it could be in person.
Ivan – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
good
Cecilia – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
It was very interesting and kept me engaged.
Michael – ALVARADO ISD (verified owner) –
I thought it was interesting and insightful. I think there are definitely good take aways from this class.
Lisa Marie – Fort Frye Local (verified owner) –
I though it was great in site for my schools community.
Cheryl – Region 17 (verified owner) –
I found the “Closing the Achievement Gap for Students Raised in Poverty” course insightful and informative. The course provided me with useful information on how to use the information in the classroom.
Evelyn – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
Highly recommend it.
Lollita – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
This course is refreshing and very eye opening. Great interactive options to show how even teachers can learn.
Tracy – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Great for teachers who teach low Eco kids
Melissa – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
This course reassures the teacher that small and simple strategies are sometimes needed most by those students who struggle with language, but have highly complex and creative ways to solve problems.
Ericka – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I thought that it was informative and effective.
Jonathan – MIDLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Great learning, however, this is simply a common complaint I have with many trainings; the material represented is elementary level. I would love more secondary level examples.
Carolina – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
Imagery is a very important component for learning in a classroom as learning is spread in different parts of the brain.
John – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
It was a very informative presentation. Much of the material covered was new to me, so I think I learned quite a bit from this training. I hope to implement the strategies I learned in my class.
Alex – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
It was an interesting and informative course that actually provided usable strategies.
Yolanda – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course help teachers to understand how to help students.
Heather – MIDLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Great insights for all learners whether they are from poverty or not.
Melina – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I think it is very informational and I can’t wait to implement the strategies I learned about.
Monica – PREMONT ISD (verified owner) –
This course was especially interesting and full of great tools that I intend on using in my class.
Cynthia – PREMONT ISD (verified owner) –
This course was informative and easy to understand.
Leslie – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course and gave one a lot to think about for helping our poverty kids.
Monica – PREMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative. It give us a new perspective and strategies to be implemented to help our students become successful.
Lilia – PREMONT ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative. This course also gave great ideas on how to implement many strategies in the classroom.
Amanda – PREMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Informative
Lisa – PREMONT ISD (verified owner) –
She was very interesting
Daniel – PREMONT ISD (verified owner) –
I liked it.
Teresa – PREMONT ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed working at my own pace.
Maria – PREMONT ISD (verified owner) –
-Great strategies to promote complex language development.
Rene – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
it is very helpful in explaining the gap we see in students from poverty.
Amando – PREMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Great, informative course.
Crissy – PREMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Navigating the course was easy
LaToya – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great modules.
Andrea – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I found this course very enriching because Joyce Juntune gave real life examples and activities to help us put into practice what we were learning even if the course was online.
Heriberto – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Very creative ways to teach and reach those kids that are hard to reach
Marisela – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great presenter
Randy – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
This course provides very useful and relevant information especially for teachers working in rural districts or those with a large majority of students living in poverty.
Angela – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –
Great ideas to use to enhance student learning
Felipe – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course. Excellent presentation and valuable information!
Rocio – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
The mindsketching activity is a great strategy to include to help students with memory.
Kengi – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
Simple, to the point and will enhance your lessons.
Yvonne – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Elsa – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very informative. I really enjoyed it! However, it was hard to do the activities without a partner or group.
Ernest – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Great information and acclamation.
Tameika – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course. I feel it was essential to understanding how students learn, and how to effectively teach students. I was very intrigued with this course, and I learned so much. I would encourage anyone to take this course.
Ciera – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –
I have learned a lot of new information to take back to my school/classroom. My campus is about 90% economically disadvantaged students, and the students are low performing. These techniques in this course will benefit those kids.