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.
Garret – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Great course! Wonderful examples, visuals, and explanations!
Carl – EULA ISD (verified owner) –
Great information to help a teacher understand and be able to help develop a gifted student in their classroom
Melissa – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course really helped me understand how to approach my gifted students interests and how I can utilize those interests
Dina – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent for teachers to know what needs each of their students need.
Celeste – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
good
Corina – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course is helpful to better understand the gifted student along with ways to help them grow.
Diana – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I couldn’t always use my speakers, so it would be nice to have a caption option. Other than that, it was helpful.
Gloria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very good information to engage educators on the needs based on GT students
Pamela – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very interesting and knowledgeable. Mrs. Juntune is wonderful!!
CHARMAINE – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
No comment
Chari – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune is amazing to listening to. She keeps the content interesting!
Stacey – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Worth taking.
Juan – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This was a very interesting course,,,I learned so much.
Bilonda – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It is the best training that I received about giftedness.
Emily – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
This was a very informative course.
Karen – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative – I did learn things that I had not heard before. It’s obvious that the instructor has a passion for gifted kids, and that she has had a lot of classroom experience.
Jackie – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course. Great examples.
Mikaila – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
good
Jasmine – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I thought the training included many useful strategies to incorporate in the classroom.
Oralia – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very educational. Helps teachers understand GT students better and helps teachers have a better idea in differences between GT students, high achievers and regular students. Also expalins about the different types of GT students and their emotional needs.
Christin – LEANDER ISD (verified owner) –
This course is very informative. She speaks very clearly, explaining details of the gifted student in ways that are easy to understand and visualize. There are many comparisons to all types of students so that we, as teachers, can see the differences and begin to pinpoint the actual gifted vs the high achievers.
Violeta – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
It is very interesting. I learned a lot.
Gabriela – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
This course not only educates effective teaching for GT students but also helps to open your eyes on how to view all students’ needs in a better , more effective way.
MARIA – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It’s a great course that truly allows you to see your gifted students as more than just intelligent. It allowed me to recognize the various levels of giftedness and how to differentiate for each type.
Magdalena – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I am leanrning how to find gt studnets and traits they may have.
Amanda – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Keishia – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course is helpful and eye opening to what we as educators should be looking for to successfully meet the need of our gifted students.
Michael – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Very well organized.
Bridgett – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course makes you think about the gifted learners in the classroom differently and how we as educators can differentiate using different types of strategies that was talked about in the videos.
LeNell – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I love the way she teaches. She gives real information, backs it up and mostly, you can feel her passion for the subject and reasons for wanting to get all of us to learn and embrace it.
Rita – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent presentation. Loved the class.
Julianna – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
Very insightful and applicable
Virgil – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Good stuff.
Daniel – Private Pay (verified owner) –
very informative and gives a lot of in class examples!
Robert – HUNTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Ruth – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I would tell others that this course helps a teacher understand gifted students and how to service them.
Alfredo – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course
Danielle – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Great refresher course!
Mary – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Learned a lot of interested things , things I was not looking out of in a gifted student.
Diana – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot about how to understand and work with my gifted students.
Melissa – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
It was very interesting and I learned many things that I did not know.
Sylvia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful in identifying a gifted learner and efficiently working to meet the needs of the gifted learner.
Krystal – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great information!
Kristel – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot from this course about how to service gifted students in my classroom.
Melissa – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This course was not only helpful in learning about how GT students operate, but it also provided me with lots of motivating ideas on how to deal with behavior management as well as how to differentiate all my lessons for all students.
Amy – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
great course.
Ethan – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great course. Mrs. Juntune is exceptional and most importantly “specific” about GT, a lacking trait in many GT trainings.
Wendel – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course illuminated quite a few misconceptions that I had about gifted and talented students.
Russell – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
it was informative, but I didn’t like Dr. Juntune’s delivery.
Jennifer – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
The presenter is easy to listen to and very knowledgable!