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.
Andrew – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
I like it
Shelby – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I would like to have copies of the resources but am unable to access them
Roxxana – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of informative data for sure.
Francisco – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very well thought out and helpful. I feel more competent in designing and implementing curriculum and serve all my students.
Sophia – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course to start with as a teacher new to working with a class of gifted students
Briana – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I appreciate the anecdotes given by Dr. Juntune, but I feel a lot of this course relied heavily on her personal experience. I would like more scientific studies/national/state data. In addition, some of the questions on the module quizzes do not seem to be connected to the most important information in the course.
Rosario – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting. Every single teacher should have these types of trainings not just GT teachers.
Alma – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I think this was a very helpful course.
Kaysie – ANGLETON ISD (verified owner) –
VERY informative, visuals were great and I loved that some of it was seeing the presenter where others were seeing the documents. I was confused at first of finding the resources, but I found them and they helped a lot.
Colton – Private Pay (verified owner) –
This is an extremely thorough course on all things Gifted and Talented. Dr. Juntune does a phenomenal job at identifying the best methods of identifying gifted students, what possible methods of instruction can be used in order to meet these gifted student’s needs, and confronting misconceptions about the GT program.
Karla – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It is a good course
Shantel – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was a good overall introduction on how to interact and conduct class with gifted students. It actually left me wanting to learn more.
Candi – TULOSO-MIDWAY ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave me information about gifted students that I did not already know.
Benjamin – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
The anecdotal knowledge of Mrs. Juntune’s family is helpful, but distracts a little from the service of current students. It creates a bit of skepticism that this information is solely based on research based practices and not of her own need to bend research data to the outcomes she is looking for.
Cindy – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
This course met it’s objective, informed me about identifying gifted students.
Dawn – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
I found this course to be very informative, with information that i will be able to use in the classroom.
Violeta – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It gives you information as to what you need to be focused on in order to create a plan for gifted students.
Braden – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
This course is well organized and does a great job of putting the material in a simple way to work through.
Maria – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Great course and great speaker!
Sarahi – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I believe it has done what it was supposed to: inform me on the subject.
Roselline – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Good insight and information with lots of examples of real life students and teacher situations.
Judith – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course gives you a plethora of teaching techniques and strategies relating to GT students.
Wakira – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I found this course very educational. It was simple to use.
Evelyn – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed learning about the importance of informing parents in advance how you are differentiating lesson plans for their gifted child.
Pamela – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot about gifted students through this course.
Nidia – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Love that it is self paced and that the presenter shares her experiences, this makes it personal.
Dwana – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of listening, but the information is interesting. You have to pay attention to respond to reflection questions and pass the quizzes at the end of each module.
Christina – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
This course was great at showing me the difference between gifted and high achieving.
Michelle – Los Angeles Unified School District (verified owner) –
This course was very easy to follow. I enjoyed it.
Rhodesia – PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I really enjoy learning the needs of all gifted students regardless of their socioeconomic status and how to service each according to their situation.
Gloria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I loved this training!
Angela – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative.
Monica – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave great examples of what to find in a gifted student.
Aimee – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
These learning modules were presented in easily digestible chunks. I really liked being able to read other’s responses to reflective prompts. This helped confirm my understandings as well as provide new insights.
Cheryl – LEANDER ISD (verified owner) –
This course helped me to better understand the difference between the gifted student and the high achieving student.
Morgan – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful course.
Neila – Private Pay (verified owner) –
The information was valuable and will be helpful in the future. I would appreciate a module that gives ideas and examples of ways to do differentiated lessons that meet the needs of a specific student and scenario. A sample lesson plan would be helpful.
Nathan – LEANDER ISD (verified owner) –
There is great information presented.
Billy – MIDLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent material for getting to know your GT students, the non-negotiables with them, and developing and implementing differentiated learning plans for each of them.
Glenda – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Good information
Alma – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course is very informative.
Josephine – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
I appreciate all of the anecdotal stories!
Simone – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
I learned a LOT as I go into my first year to teach G/T students.
Kathleen – PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I would give it 5 stars. I thought Joyce had a number of very interesting examples for all of her lessons. I learned a great deal and was pleased to realize that I had been doing some really great things all along. I could listen to her all day and not be bored. Thank you!!
Mara – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course has been very informative and helpful.
Jessica – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
A great course that explains characteristics of gt students and what they need in order to help on their learning journey.
Erin – JASPER ISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Samantha – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
self pace is awesome
Rosario – HUNTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Full of useful information
Amber – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Very informative!