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.
Teresa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I’m a new teacher and everything that is provided to me I take very serious and this course has a lot of good information.
MICHELLE – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The course was great. It provided me with different strategies that I will use in my classroom.
Pamela – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I understand and know how to implement a lot of creative thinking strategies that I had no idea how to do before watching this training. The only reason I gave 4 stars was because I prefer in person trainings.
Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It’s great!
Debbie – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
The course is very enlightening.
Mayra – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This course was very interesting and informative.
Dorothy – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
Course was helpful and direct
Naomi – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
boring
Lisa – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
Great course with lots of great strategies to improve creative thinking in the classroom!
Noemi – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was amazing! Dr. Juntune is a wonderful speaker and motivator. Would definitely recommend others to take this course. I really learned a lot and will take with me ideas that I can implement in my classroom.