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.
Penny – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very informational and gives teachers strategies to help gifted students opportunities to excel and feel comfortable in the classroom.
Rachel – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and the presentation is very informative.
DeAnna – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
The information was presented well, and the instructor was easy to relate to.
Lauren – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome!
indira – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
good and helpful
Kayla – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great! I appreciated the shorter chunks of information or videos. Allowed you to work at your own pace and take a break when needed. The quizzes were straight from the information presented. I also liked how I could view other people’s responses to see different viewpoints or to validate my own response. The presentation was informational and helpful!
Lelia – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
5 stars
Anita – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
This was amazing! I am a first year teacher and I had NO IDEA what GT or GT kids were or needed! Joyce is great! Her experience is priceless!
Cassandra – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was awesome! The teacher was very interesting to listen to and had a lot of knowledge on the topic.
Veronica – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
5 stars. Very informative.
Oscar – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It is always a pleasure to participate in the courses presented by Dr. Juntune! I enjoy learning from the research about gifted students and her anecdotal accounts are inspiring and informative.
Madison – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
I loved how she incorporated many personal stories, and made the curriculum interesting.
Deseray – SINTON ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative and helped me understand the differences between high achievers and gifted students.
Maria Isabel – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Very well organize.
Melissa – SINTON ISD (verified owner) –
I absolutely loved the insight of this course.
Rosalie – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Thorough training that is applicable to our classrooms. Easy to follow along and relevant.
Sharon – Angleton ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative. More interesting than I expected.
Justin – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This is awesome. I’ll be using things I learned ASAP
Amy – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting and applicable.
Clinton – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome and easy to follow!!!
Lee – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Outstanding!!! This helps us to understand the way the Gifted and Talented student thinks and works. It will definitely help in planning and instruction. Thank You.
Soraya – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
It was an excellent course because I learned so much about the nature and needs of the gifted and talented. The presentation was excellent and full of examples and the pace of the lesson was great!
Cristina – NORTH EAST ISD (verified owner) –
The course is self-paced and interactive, which I enjoy. However, I find that the course is needlessly time-consuming. There is a lot of information that is repeated unnecissarily.
Sandra – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This course gives essential information on how to identify gifted students, their needs, and how to help them accelerate.
Mitsi – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Such worthwhile training! I wish my children’s teachers last year had remembered more of the details from their training…
Stacy – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
This was an excellent course explaining Gifted children and their needs.
Abby – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Heather – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Very well organized. Great resources.
Ebony – PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
yes
Lorena – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
It was not boring .
Haydee – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I learned the difference between gifted and high achievers. and
that socioeconomic status has an effect on gifted students.
Brittany – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful in having a better understanding of how I can better reach gifted students.
Joanna – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the Nature & Needs of the Gifted and Talented course. Mrs. Juntune did an excellent job of explaining characteristics of gifted children.
Tammi – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
It was fine .. very straight forward
Stephen – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
The course is educative and provide a lot about the gifted students and how to deal with them in a normal classroom settings.
William – FORT BEND ISD (verified owner) –
I believe that this course was highly informative, and that it could enable all teachers to understand and push for early identification of G/T students.
Pamela – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I learned a lot and it wasn’t boring.
Erica – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting. Stories about teaching gifted students helped make the content more relevant.
Sandra – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
So much useful information! I learned so much about the needs of the gifted learner.
Steven – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Good
Martha – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
The training was well prepared and paced.
Erica – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I think it is very informative and rigorous, especially the reflection questions mixed abcd answer choices.
Heather – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and helpful for teachers of gifted students.
Cindy – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
It was very interesting! Helped me understand the gifted students.
Arizbeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
it is relevant and consigns
Jocelyn – EANES ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting information on the motivational needs of gifted kids and what they repond best to…
Melanie – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I thought the actual GT information was helpful, but there was a lot of time when personal stories were shared and that added to the time factor.
Liliana – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
It helps to understand what are the differences between gifted and high achievers students. I like the fact that provides some orientation on how to work with gifted students raised in poverty. It makes you aware of the gap due to their low verbal memory and how to help them to become stronger student.
Rolando – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
The course specifically touches on the needs gifted children need. As a teacher, the course also touches on how to identify those types of children. I feel the most important part is knowing what to provide each student based on their own individual and intellectual needs.
enedelia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent!