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.
Yancy – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
it provides good ideas to use in the classroom
Raquel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Loved the course! It helped me look at ways I can help students become more creative with very practical ideas to use in class.
Amy – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
This is one of the best training courses I have ever been to! Dr. Juntune was so engaging and insightful and I got so many practical ideas to take back to my classroom.
Veronica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative!
Elizabeth – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
Gave me a lot of new ideas that I can implement in the classroom.
Juan – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It was okay.
Vivian – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Loved the strategies presented and how to use them.
Lindsay – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I like how this course works for all students, not just the gifted and talented ones. It also helps hone differentiation for those students that are GT.
Payton – SWEENY ISD (verified owner) –
It was amazing!
Crystal J – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I liked all the activities that this course provided.