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This bundle provides teachers with access to up to 6 hours of GT training from recognized authors, trainers, and practitioners in gifted education, meeting the state’s 6-hour GT update requirement. -
Presenter: Dr. Joyce Juntune, Texas A&M University
Core Area: Differentiated Curriculum
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6
Join Dr. Juntune as she walks you through the unique minds of gifted children and explains why they need differentiation. She addresses how to practice individualized differentiation on a daily basis without placing a taxing workload on educators.
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Presenter: Dr. Joyce Juntune, Texas A&M UniversityCore Area: Creativity & Instructional StrategiesGrade Level: Elementary & SecondaryHours: 6
Knowledge is no longer a competitive advantage. The job market is flooded with applicants who possess the knowledge necessary to complete a job. However, in today’s world creativity and creative thinking are the skills that prepare our students for success. Joyce Juntune, Ph.D., is passionate about teaching educators to both inspire academic achievement and develop creative thinking in the classroom.
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Presenter: Dr. Joyce Juntune, Texas A&M University
Core Area: Identification & Assessment
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6
Each year, thousands of gifted students go undiscovered in our classrooms. Without accurate identification, many of these students will never reach their full potential or benefit from the great resources available in our gifted programs. As teachers and educators in gifted education, one of our top priorities should be the screening, assessment, and identification of our gifted students.
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Presenter: Joyce Juntune, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Core Area: Nature & Needs
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6Understanding gifted children is serious business. They sit in our schools and sometimes go unidentified or remain underserved. Understanding the nature and needs of gifted students empowers teachers to meet their needs and prepare them for success.
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Presenter: Dr. Joyce Juntune, Texas A&M University
Core Area: Social & EmotionalGrade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6
The unique needs and attributes of gifted children extend beyond merely their accelerated cognitive development. They are divergent from average children in social and emotional arenas as well. Because they have special intellectual, emotional, imaginational, psycho-motor, and sensual energies that need to be understood, respected and sometimes redirected it is essential that school districts have a deep understanding of how these children operate beyond just meeting their intellectual needs. In this course, Dr. Juntune will guide you through the unique social and emotional world of a gifted child and demonstrate how schools, teachers and administrators can best serve these children and provide them with the whole person education that they have a right to.
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Presenter: Lisa Van Gemert, Gifted Guru
Core Area: Creativity & Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6
Leave behind the glitter and glue dots. Creativity in the classroom is less about art projects and more about helping students develop creative thinking skills. In this six-hour course, “Creativity and Instructional Strategies,” Lisa Van Gemert guides teachers through an in-depth look at how to bring creative instruction into their classrooms. Discover resources, inspiration, and knowledge that will make educators excited about teaching with creativity.
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Presenter: Lisa Van Gemert, Gifted Guru
Core Area: Nature & Needs
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6
Dive deep into the world of gifted students! In this six-hour course, “Identification & Assessment of the Gifted,” educators will learn the history of gifted education, characteristics of gifted students, and how to assess and identify gifted children. After taking this course, educators will have a thorough knowledge of exactly what it means to be gifted.
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Presenter: Lisa Van Gemert, Gifted Guru
Core Area: Nature & Needs
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6If you’ve ever been baffled by gifted behavior, wait until you explore your students’ brains! Learn the dynamic forces behind their needs and quirks.
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Presenters: Over 20 leading education trainers and practitioners including Debra Troxclair, Ph.D, James Webb, Ph.D, and Lynette Breedlove Level: Elementary & Secondary Hours: 30Texas law requires teachers receive 30 hours of training in gifted education to be eligible to teach gifted students. Each course in this 22-course bundle was handpicked by TAGT to meet that 30-hour requirement and to keep your new teachers fully engaged and learning. The TAGT 30-hour Bundle will give your teachers a firm foundation from which to understand and nurture your gifted students by covering core gifted areas, including Nature and Needs, Identification and Assessment, Social and Emotional Needs, Creativity and Instructional Strategies, and Differentiated Curriculum. -
Presenter: Carolyn Coil, Pieces of LearningCore Area: Nature & Needs | Differentiated CurriculumGrade Level: Elementary & SecondaryHours: 6
Underachievers have many reasons (or excuses) for not working up to their full potential. Some of them are easy to identify in the classroom. However, there is a little-recognized group of hidden underachievers, who are easy to miss because they hide in plain sight.Add to Cart or Click Here for District Pricing
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Presenter: Lisa Van Gemert, Gifted GuruCore Area: Creativity and Instructional StrategiesGrade Level: Elementary & SecondaryHours: 1
“I'm bored!!!” This is a dreaded phrase for parents and teachers alike. But there is more to it than you might realize. Boredom itself is an extremely interesting topic to study, and understanding it better will help you engage students in meaningful ways and overcome the mental block that boredom can cause. In this 1-hour course, Lisa Van Gemert, M.Ed.T., explains the research on boredom and how to conquer it in the classroom.
If you want to go deeper with Beyond Boredom, there will be a Virtual Live Event with Lisa Van Gemert on May 4th, 2022 at 4PM, and again at 7PM. Click here to find out more.
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Presenter: Lisa Van Gemert, Gifted Guru
Core Area: Differentiated Curriculum
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6
Like flowers in a garden, student in a classroom require different strategies to help them grow and thrive. Learning differentiation is key on the road to becoming a master teacher. In this course, Gifted Guru-Lisa Van Gemert, presents approachable ways you can begin to differentiate and help every student excel.
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Presenter: Lisa Van Gemert, Gifted Guru
Core Area: Social & Emotional
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6When is a hyper child not just a hyper child? If this hyper student happens to be gifted, there may be much more to their raucous behavior than a lack of self control. Learn how the unique wiring of a G/T brain enables them to soar, and requires special guidance from you.
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This package contains six 1-hour courses by Lori Comallie-Caplan, each addressing a different aspect of the social and emotional needs of gifted and talented students. -
Presenter: Andi McNair
Core Area: Creativity & Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 3
If what we’re teaching isn’t meaningful to our students, it’s a waste of our time and theirs. This is one of Andi McNair’s core beliefs, and in this lesson she invites you to join her in exploring what matters most to our students, why it matters to them, and how we can change the way we teach in order to ensure we reach them before it’s too late.Visit TAGT On Demand for more online courses.
Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
© Texas Association for the Gifted & Talented, Austin, Texas 2020
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Presenter: Bob Iseminger, Pieces of Learning
Core Area: Differentiated Curriculum
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6
What good is a tool if we do not teach a child how to use it? If information is a tool, critical thinking skills are the key to making that information useful for our students. In this course, you will learn how technology in the 21st century has changed the way G/T students interact with information and how it helps them build critical thinking skills in the classroom and beyond.
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Presenter: Dr. Joyce Juntune, Texas A&M UniversityCore Area: Social Emotional, Nature NeedsGrade Level: Elementary & SecondaryHours: 6
Understanding gifted children is serious business. They sit in our schools and sometimes go unidentified or remain underserved. Understanding the nature and needs of gifted students empowers teachers to meet their needs and prepare them for success.
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Presenter: John DeLandtsheer
Core Area: Creativity & Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1
As a teacher and administrator, Mr. Delandtsheer has come to embrace the philosophy “Whoever does the work gets smarter.” He explains, we may need to revisit the type of work that is required of students and how we view them in order for our children to succeed in the 21st century.Visit TAGT On Demand for more online courses.
Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
© Texas Association for the Gifted & Talented, Austin, Texas 2020
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Presenter: Dr. Lynette Breedlove, Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science at Western Kentucky University
Core Area: Nature & Needs
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6Visit TAGT On Demand for more online courses.
Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
© Texas Association for the Gifted & Talented, Austin, Texas 2020
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Presenter: Andi McNair, TAGT
Core Area: Creativity & Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 3Genius hour is an out-of-the-box venture that allows students to take charge and follow through with a project that will impact their community. Students have total ownership from the initial stage of research, to collaborating with an expert, to carrying out the project with passion, and sharing it with the world--or at least Snapchat! Learn how to make genius hour an exciting part of your class.Visit TAGT On Demand for more online courses.
Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
© Texas Association for the Gifted & Talented, Austin, Texas 2020
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Presenter: Brian Housand, Ph.D., East Carolina University
Core Area: Creativity & Instruction
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1
Technology is everywhere and for many teachers, understanding technology can be like trying to understand a new language. It can be difficult to learn, let alone know which tech tools are worth using in the classroom and how to use them. In “60 Tech Tools in 60 Minutes,” Dr. Housand gives us a crash course on tools that you can use in your classroom. It only takes an hour to figure out which tools you can use for your classroom. Just imagine being able to leverage one of these tech tools and what it can do for your classroom. Your students will get more out of their experience and your teaching career can be even more fulfilling!Visit TAGT On Demand for more online courses.
Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
© Texas Association for the Gifted & Talented, Austin, Texas 2020
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Presenter: James Webb, Ph.D.Core Area: Identification & AssessmentGrade Level: Elementary & SecondaryHours: 1
It is a stunning and tragic statistic that as many as half of gifted students go unidentified in our schools every year. These students are being underserved and we, as a nation, are missing out on the talents and abilities they have to offer. In this course James Webb explains why so many of these students are slipping through the cracks and teaches how to recognize them and how to serve them.
Visit TAGT On Demand for more online courses.Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
© Texas Association for the Gifted & Talented, Austin, Texas 2020
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Presenter: Joyce Juntune
Core Area: Differentiated Curriculum
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6
Gifted students can be found in all walks of life. With more than seventeen percent of Texans living in poverty, it is vital that educators understand the different perspectives and challenges that create achievement gaps for gifted students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Learning how to close these gaps for gifted students can help you set them up for success throughout life.
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