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.
Sarah – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I found this course to be very informative and interesting. It makes me want to learn more about the gifted mind.
Jason – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and well rounded training session.
Caley – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot that I didn’t know originally about educational psychology and its role with GT students!
libby – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
great learned alot about gifted kids
Barbarita – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
great information
Millie – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
A lot of good information on what to look at and information needed to develop a successful gifted program. There are a wide range of skills talents and character traits that need to be looked at. Besides the great information, I liked being able to go at my own pace. I felt I retained more by breaking it up into several days.
roel – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
I think it is incredibly beneficial and will help me differentiate in the future with my GT students.
Sierra – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed the presenter. Although the course was online I remained engaged with her stories and felt like she really knew what she was talking about.
Matthew – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very enlightening. I have a whole new outlook on gifted students and cannot wait to use some of these practices in my classroom to help motivate them!
Katalina – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
The course is very interested and although it is long it keeps my attention and makes me want to know more.
Lori – BENJAMIN LOGAN LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course provided a lot of information about gifted students, their learning styles and resources for helping them to accelerate. This course gives great information about gifted students who come from poverty and differences in their verbal and non-verbal skills.
Monica – SALADO ISD (verified owner) –
This is an excellent course! It is easy to follow along and it is enjoyable.
Elda – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very interesting and informing. I learned a lot about gifted students.
Aneshea – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Wonderful information!
Kerri – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
Good course. Lots of good information.
M’Lissa – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was informative and helpful for me to understand gifted learners better. It will improve my teaching immensely.
Yoshara – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome and informative
Christine – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I liked Dr. Juntune’s energy.
Peter – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative and well paced throughout.
Andrew – Fort Frye Local (verified owner) –
Great concepts, and the instructor videos were fine.
Shaelynn – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Great course! Very informative.
Laura Michelle – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I didn’t know that there was a difference between high achievers and gifted.
Adanna – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course. It taught me so much about indicators to identify Gifted students and a lot about my children.
vivianaa – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
Great information
Angelica – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Learning how to help our GT population is important.
Sarah Elise – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This is a good course for understanding the GT student mindset.
Mary – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Engaging presentation and applicable content.
Corinna – PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
it was very good
Yesenia – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
awesome
Philicia – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course will help me better perform services.
Aissa – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.
Maria – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This was a very informative course. It is needed in order to better understand and work with gifted students.
Johnie – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative to me as a teacher going into my first year. I now know what traits to look for and how to teach gifted students.
Isaac – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course with an easy to follow structure to it. Our instructor was excellent and clearly a guru in the field of Gifted.
Pamela – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course with lots of valuable information
Kathleen – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
Good
Alexis – NORTH EAST ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this was very easy and flowed smoothly.
Yolanda – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative.
Ofelia – LEANDER ISD (verified owner) –
It was eye opening. I realized that I need to do as much to understand my GT special needs and respond to them as I do for other student requiring diferentiation and learning plans.
Heather – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
I did enjoy the instructor. She brought in real-experiences and was relatable to my teaching experience.
Grace – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Christina – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
Love it
Leah – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Great GT update course
Amanda – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
It was easy and not time consuming. You learned useful information quickly.
Tiffany – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Good, Informational Virtual training
Keith – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the class!
Krystle – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
It was required.
Cherise – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Was excellent.
Juan – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
5 stars
Tiffany – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Teachers are also like students. I would recommend more engaged learning for teachers versus reading and listening.