Description
One of the most important foundational aspects of working with gifted students is developing a deep understanding of them. What motivates them? How do they think? And how do they learn? Joyce Juntune, Ph.D. answers these questions and more in this 6-hour course. Dr. Juntune focuses on the nature and needs of gifted students, including the characteristics, social-emotional needs, and programming options. Understanding your gifted students is the starting point for preparing them for life-long success.
In this course you’ll learn to:
- Understand sources of energy in gifted students
- Identify indicators of giftedness
- Differentiate between high achievers and gifted students
- Understand statistical distribution
- Identify the four types of gifted students
- And much more!
This course is aligned with 2016 ODE Teacher Competencies d, e, and NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.5.
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, and she teaches graduate-level courses in her expert areas of intelligence, child and adolescent development, educational psychology, giftedness, and creativity. Dr. Juntune earned her master’s degree in curriculum instruction from St. Cloud University and her Ph.D. in educational psychology from Texas A&M University.
Toishema – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course prepares teachers for the characteristics and overall needs of Gifted students. By the end of this course you will understand what gifted means.
Marissa – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
It is very informative
whitney – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the speaker.
Ashley – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I like the course. It is full of information that helped me to better understand the students in my class. I wish I had taken this course earlier!
Ernesto – PRESIDIO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent!
Jenna – MIAMI TRACE LOCAL (verified owner) –
two thumbs up
Barbara – PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
The course was informative
Martha – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
It was so interesting and refreshing to hear about specific students and how we could address their needs.
Quendalin – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
It was very interesting and informative.
Bret – BARBERS HILL ISD (verified owner) –
I found the information very informative. Honestly, I could see real kids in my mind as information was being presented
Miguel – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
I think it was very straight forward. I wish there was more reflective questions more often.
Noemi – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This PD session was very informative. I thought I was well informed when it came to my knowledge of the gifted student, but this training was rather eyeopening. I would recommend my colleagues to take the time to interact with the session as reminders and new information is needed to keep up with the demands of a classroom.
LILLIANA – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
It has a lot of great information that I can use in my classroom with my gifted and even non gifted students.
Abelardo – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This was quite helpful and informative.
Katie – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
This was very interesting
Tomas – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
loved her energy. felt like i was part of the discussion. with i could hear the audience answers when she was poling the teachers
William – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was great. opened my eyes to a few things I have been missing
Ben – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Recommended
Karina – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This training gives you a lot of information to use in the classroom on a daily basis. I have the ECSE children and I thought this training would not be for me. I am surprised how I might be able to identify from an early age gifted and talented students.
Ashley – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –
I believe I learned some from this course, but it was much longer than needed.
Kaylea – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Claudia – TORNILLO ISD (verified owner) –
It’s a great course!
Tyesha – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Great course, very thorough.
BRANDI – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
It was okay, could have been much shorter
Jessica Faye – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course. Lots of good eye opening information.
Victor – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I like that it is done in modules. This allows us to work at our pace. I also like that it is very informative on knowing more about our gifted students.
Sherrie – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
The topic have subtopics. Good information. She did a lot of story telling which drug the session on.
Barbara – CHARDON LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course is interesting and helpful with the gifted population. It would be nice to hear a few more ideas for differentiation.
Amy – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this course was the right length and offered good resources. Dr. Juntune was interesting.
Lisa – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informational.
Kerri – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
It was great to see how gifted kids in poverty are effected and how we need to look at the nonverbal scores. It was also important to see ways to differentiate and split gifted students time throughout the day.
Marquita – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I love the information given. I learned how to deal with my gifted students and feel I have identified a few of them based on the course
Norma – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
this course is very helpful.
Alberto – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Rodrigo – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This is definitely a very well organized course with a lot of information that would benefit any individual working with gifted students.
Amber – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It is a little bit lengthy
Kenisha – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I was very in depth. I learned a lot of different information about gifted learners that I did not know. Everyone would benefit from taking this course.
Kourtney – HUDSON ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.
Julio Cesar – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and fresh to hear through the modules.
Mary – BARBERS HILL ISD (verified owner) –
This course was not only helpful to me as a teacher, but to understand myself when I was a student. I wish there was training like this available for my teachers when I was younger. It has helped me to be more aware of students I teach in art that are probably overlooked gifted children.
Brenna – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
It was helpful in describing the psychological aspects of gifted and talented students.
Ramona – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Donna – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Good information to review about gifted learners and how they are different than average students.
Brenda – WASHINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
Some of this was informative
Zachary – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course is great. I got my 30 hour GT Foundations training in another district 10 years ago, lost my certificate, so am retaking the 30 hours and this course taught me so much I didn’t know!
Frederick – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This was a very informative course that is worth the time.
Dulce – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting!
Christina – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
The course was a great refresher. I highly recommend it.
Cynthia – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Good course and very resourceful with GT information
Susanna – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great training..