Description
One criticism of modern, American education is that students are taught to memorize correct answers but not taught creative thinking and problem solving. In this in-depth, 6-hour course, Joyce Juntune, Ph.D., delves deeply into essential strategies for developing creative thinking in the classroom. She believes that creative thinking is an essential component leading to the long-term success of gifted students educationally, personally, and professionally. Creative thinking has long been considered the highest form of mental functioning. Dr. Juntune explains how idea generation is the foundation of creative thinking, and she provides applicable tools you can use to help students generate new ideas.
Over the course of six modules, Dr. Juntune will share:
- Lessons from her own background in the field of creativity
- The importance of nurturing creativity
- Developing creative thinkers for the future
- Preparing students to become cutting-edge creative thinkers
- The differences between fluency and flexibility
- The basics of mind sketching, and
- And so much more!
Presenter Bio
Dr. Joyce 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. She has focused the majority of her career on the areas of intelligence and gifted and talented education. Dr. Juntune has served as the executive director for the National Association for Gifted Children and the Institute for Applied Creativity at Texas A&M University.
Juanita – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course! Wonderful techniques and strategies. Open my mind to new ways of teaching.
sarahi – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
That this course and others like this one are very informative and can be very beneficial to teachers when providing the best education for our students.
Lorenzo – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
For any writing assignments, the section on elaboration is quite good. All of these Modules provide great resources for teachers.
Patricia – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative and gave great ideas.
Nora – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent ideas on how to expand learning in the classroom.
Melissa – Private Pay (verified owner) –
The course was a lot of fun and full of new ideas. I loved being able to reflect on my learning throughout the modules. I am excited to try some of the creative thinking techniques in the classroom this year. The presenter was very easy to follow and enjoyable to learn from.
Autumn – VIDOR ISD (verified owner) –
I liked this course, I learned many things and way to implement new ideas and strategies in my classroom.
Amy – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Matthew – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Lengthy and informative.
Anna – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Again, I have learned activities that I can use in my room next year. This was another great Module!