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.
Vincent – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very helpful.
Stephanie – Private Pay (verified owner) –
This was a very engaging and interest course, I feel like I learned a great deal about the needs, identification and factors that students who are gifted and high achievers are faced with.
Maria Elena – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
Excellent course. I learned a lot. One thing that stuck was the fact that gifted and talented children that are raised in poverty are not identified enough.
Sydney – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course has good content but is slightly dated and there is other content and examples that would be beneficial for teachers.
jon – STRATFORD ISD (verified owner) –
Good info. Sometimes difficult to implement with a class size of 40. There are probably not more than 2 gifted students and it is hard for them not to be isolated when accelerated.
Rene – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I really encourage it and think it should be required for all new teachers to take.
Melanie – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot about the nature of a GT students which is a topic that is often overlooked because of the stigma that comes with being GT.
Claire – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and I like the reflective thinking.
Alejandro – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I think it is a strong and rounded course that really advocates to GT students.
Eduardo – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very informative. The needs of these students need to be filled.
Sara – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I thoroughly enjoyed this course!
Isabel – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This is an essential course to gain a better understanding of the characteristics and services of a gifted child. I tottaly recommend the course.
Alba – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
very useful
Lester – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
The course provided great insight about the correct methods to identify and nurture gifted students levels of learning and the ways to stimulate this behavior.
Danielle – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Enjoyed the presenter, interesting topic
Shauna – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
I loved Dr. Joyce Juntune’s honesty.
Brian – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
It was great
Erika – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
This course helps students that are gifted or high achieving students,
Kimberly – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative and details in providing insight on how to identify and teach gifted students.
Carol – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot I would give it a 5
RAMIRO – Private Pay (verified owner) –
How to identify G/T students in high poverty areas.
Jorge – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was good!
Jasmine – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
it’s great to be able to complete gt training from home so that I can learn at my own pace.
Julia – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
This course explores all the aspects of a GS.
Joshua – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.
Sonia B. – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
I liked this course because I could complete at my convenience.
Billy-Gay – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
It was good and had a lot of things I could use.
christina – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Mrs. Juntune has a lot of experience identifying and teaching gifted students and relays that information in an easy to follow manner.
Jeff – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great Job
Kristen – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I liked listening to the speaker and felt like she included her own personal stories along with experience that teachers can relate to.
Maryel – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
very informative and has all the resources as links in each slide
Benjamin – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Tough
Clarissa – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
This course was interesting and informative.
Alfredo – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
It was a helpful course, it gave scenarios of gifted students and that was helpful
Jessica – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I felt like this presentation is outdated and needs to be redone, there were some problematic statements made about kids in poverty that may not be accurate. The course completely ignored ethnicity and systemic racism in gifted students experiences.
Beth – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Diane – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
very in depth training
Jennifer – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
This course helps you understand the “quirks” of gifted students
Jenifer – Angleton ISD (verified owner) –
I loved the presenter, very high energy. Mrs.Juntune explains each topic well and with examples of real life situations to easily follow.
Lindsey – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
The speaker was engaging and used great anecdotes to help me make connections to content. I appreciated the handouts that were included as well.
James – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Great course! Clear and to the point instruction. Very informative.
Bailey – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Adebimpe – Private Pay (verified owner) –
It has opened my eyes even more, to what makes G.T kids tick!
Griselda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome, very important eye openers for educators. Enjoy the examples provided.
Chaterica – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
great information
Robert – Brazosport ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course gave good examples of the gifted spectrum and helped me see areas where I may overlook a gifted student based solely off of performance.
LaJuan – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It was satisfactory.
Christina – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
It was nice to take a training that left me with useful and interesting information that I was able to make connections with and think about new ideas for future use.
Laurie – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
This coarse offers some very detailed and important information on the needs of gifted learners that is necessary for teachers to understand when teaching gifted learners.
Kara – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
REally enjoyed it. Very interesting and helpful.