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.
Idalia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I really found the strategies in this course useful and hope to use them in my classroom.
cody – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Fantastic!!!!
Melonie – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and can be used with a variety of classrooms.
Claudia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful for incorporating creative thinking in the classroom. There were elaborate explanations and examples of how to get students to think.
Donald – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
its was good
Cecil – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed all of the ideas that could be used or modified for use in my classroom.
Michael – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
Very useful. The real life examples ad exercises helped in understanding the lesson.
Julia – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Great! Informative! Exciting! Creative!
Stephanie – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Useful
Maria – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I like how Dr. J presents each topic and models for us. I am a visual learner and I teach that way as well (I teach dual language and visual helps my students learning their second language).