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.
Erika – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
great examples and activities
Ashley – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Useful information.
Salome – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
very practical and applicable advice.
Rebecca – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
It felt very long-winded when she could have been more concise and still driven her points home.
Veronica – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
I liked this course! I liked all the examples.
Olivia – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
This was very informative and has many useful strategies to be used in the classroom
Sarai – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I like it, I think it has given me other ideas of things I can implement in the class that will help my class environment
Danielle – MIDLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great information!
Holly – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
awesome
Anabel – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –
I felt that this course had great information on how to get your students to start thinking. It present several different activities that anyone can use in the classroom.