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.
Altagracia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I love this course! I learned many new things I did not know that I may now apply in my classroom.
Matthew – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
This gave a helpful overview about various aspects of gifted education, like the needs and motivation of gifted students. Some topics could be learned about more in-depth, but this training is a good start.
Osiel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Melanie – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
it was very informative
Christopher – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great information to help me understand how to teach different types of students.
Tiffany – JASPER ISD (verified owner) –
I believe this course is needed.
Katie – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course had great information.
Jose – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Learned a lot
Kimberly – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
This had too many videos and extra info that I did not need
Efrain – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great workshop that goes deeper of what we think about gifted students.
Patsy – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
The teacher has great energy and depth of knowledge.
Andrea – HUNTSVILLE ISD – TEXAS ONLINE PREP (verified owner) –
Great!
Leonardo – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot about the needs that gifted students have.
Allison – HUNTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great Course and Speaker
Maria – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This training was full of information that I can instantly start using with the students in my classroom. I love how she used her personal anecdotes to make the connections for us to understand it.
Rosa – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I liked this course because it tells you what to do as well as what not to do.
Yvonne – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
good
Heraldo – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great, Cant wait for other modules. ;-]
Charles – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great course that really got me to think about the needs, differences and motivations of the gifted student.
Celestina – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
learned so much about myself in this course!!
Meghan – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Easy to follow and informative!
Valerie – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great info. All teachers should take this.
Lauren – LEANDER ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed the speaker. (I am not an online learner though)
Michael – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Well done. This was my first course that I’ve taken that was presented by Dr. Juntune.
Kathaleen – HUNTSVILLE ISD – TEXAS ONLINE PREP (verified owner) –
I felt like I learned a great deal and found out through teaching I have done some of these things in my classroom. I enjoyed listening to Dr. Juntune. Very interesting.
Arizbeth – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I would recommend for this course to have an annual review so that us teachers can remember how gifted students can be misunderstood. Even if they failed the GT test you can still have gifted students this can be beneficial to students.
Laura – HUNTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great and engaging course!
Kiana – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot about gifted students and how to work with them.
Hayley – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune is super energetic and engaging speaker. I enjoyed the way that she merged her deep understanding of the Nature and Needs of GT kids (after MANY years of research/study/practice) with actual real life stories from her teaching career. This was a fun and engaging course and I highly recommend it!
Anica – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Amanda – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course helped me understand the importance of having differentiated lesson plans for gifted students.
Lauren – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I think it was very well rounded and provides so many real life examples that helped push ideas and concepts.
Stephanie – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It’s a great refresher course!
Kasey – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
It is very intereactive and Dr. Juntune is engaging to listen to.
Isabel – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course.
Donald – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
I feel this course has better prepared me to meet the needs of my gifted students.
Juan – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
It is a very complete and enriching experience.
Clara – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
Very insightful!
Annette – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative!
Ashley – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I like the information provided. I need the refreshers course because it helped me recognize more option to make learning in my class more effective for the students.
MANUEL – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course and I learned alot more about Gifted students. This will help me better provide my gifted students will a variety of ways to learn different concepts and skills
Kelly – TIPP CITY EXEMPTED VILLAGE (verified owner) –
I thought this was a great course! Super helpful for a young teacher still trying to navigate gifted learning.
Danielle – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I love that I got to take this course! I believe that all teachers should take this course so that they are better able to understand their students!
John – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course that shows the importance of knowing the student.
Evelyn – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative.
Jessica – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Enjoyed the course and information.
Angela – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Great course with detailed content.
Shelby – HUNTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Pretty entertaining.
Jasmin – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting. Very helpful in showing how to deal with gifted students. This is also helpful in showing how to identify and keep students in the gifted program.
Selene – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This was just the first part of my 30 hours training and I have learned a lot. I will be working on following all the recommendations on how to work with GT students to help them in the proper and correct way.