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.
Renee – New Lexington City Schools (verified owner) –
This course had great insight and information about the gifted learner.
Amanda – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I found this gifted and talented course to be highly informative and beneficial. I will definitely be taking a lot of what I learned throughout the course and applying it when I am identifying and teaching gifted students.
Jamie – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative and I learned a lot.
Eddie – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
great every teacher should take and try.
Ariel – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Patricia – Morgan Local Schools (verified owner) –
This course was informational and kept my attention. June is easy to listen to and entertaining.
Erica – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This course assists in understanding the needs of the gifted students. It was clearly stated.
Cameron – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
This was a self-paced course that was very informative and easy to navigate. I will use this type of course in the future.
Ericka – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
I love this training because it really helped me to better understand my gifted students and provide more options for them to learn. I also obtained a more clear way to understand how they think.
Marsha – Allen East Local Schools (verified owner) –
Excellent, with wonderful examples.
Odette – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
it was very interesting and informative
Erika – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
The pacing of the modules was good.
Stacy – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
This course was interesting and gave me good ideas on how I can better differentiate my classroom.
Kailyn – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Great and very informative!
Jonathan – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
It was enlightening.
Amon – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
It was informative.
Tony – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
I thought the course was very informative. I’m beginning my first year of teaching, so this was a great opportunity to begin to understand working with gifted students.
Chris – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
It was clear
Megan – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
It was great!
Alexa – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
This course has been wonderful! It was very eye opening and touched on a lot of misconceptions about GT.
Darla – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Misty – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative and I took away a lot of information that will help me with GT students.
Ashley – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Lengthy
heather – WASHINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
I love the foundation on giftedness and intelligence and also the focus at the end on what this looks like for our students living in poverty.
Sarah – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I appreciate the pacing of the course and the straightforward nature of the lectures. I feel that Dr. Juntune shares enough anecdotal evidence to enhance learning with specific examples, but not too much so it feels like unnecessary storytelling. I have learned some important practices to implement in my classroom.
Marian – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Good
Dominic – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative, I would be willing to log back into the portal to refresh my memory to be able help assist gifted and talented students in to future.
Cynthia – Private Pay (verified owner) –
This course offered very good information as well as worksheets/materials that were very useful during the training.
Jayda – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
It challenged my thinking about knowledge of gifted students, as well as gave me great tips that I can immediately put into play in my classroom.
Brian – BETHEL LOCAL (verified owner) –
Very informative but a little long winded at times.
Bradford – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great course. I felt I was right there in the same room as the speaker.
Ayra – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed learning about the needs of gifted students as well as the recommendations to make learning meaningful to them.
Crystal – MARIETTA CITY (verified owner) –
Great as an intro to gifted course!
Cesar – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
The course is very well thought out and greatly explained.
Amanda – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
I have taken many courses over teaching gifted students. This course was full of immediate take-aways.
Melissa – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
This review was extremely helpful!
Miguel – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Learning the different types of gifted students and the different ways we can serve them was very interesting in this course
Christy – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
There is a lot of great information in the course, however I don’t love the format of listening. I do like the notes section which was helpful.
Leslie – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative presentation!
Djorkaeff – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course is highly informational and helps give knowledge about important aspects to educators.
Jordan – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this course had a lot of good information.
Enrique – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot.
Isela – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful
Manuel – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Is a course that help teachers to have a clear and specific idea of the guidelines to identify and how to work with GT students.
Ed – CHARDON LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course was very informative and the links at the end are very helpful sources to assist teachers.
Brenda – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Great information.
Patrick – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great course for identifying and helping gifted students.
Zachary – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Joyce is a genius. If every school would follow her plan, every school could have a great GT program. I genuinely was drawn in by her knowledge and style as she conducted the class.
Noelle – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
This course was very informative and easy to follow!
Ryan – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Great, succinct way of presenting info about GT kiddos!