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.
Jennifer – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
very useful and provided lots of ideas to take back to classroom
Paulette – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
great ideas
Joanna – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune is very energetic. I especially love how she brings real life examples and situations.
Brenda – RIO GRANDE CITY CISD (verified owner) –
Awesome!
Rebecca – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this model but some parts of this training may be a little difficult to implement in some subjects
Melissa – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful.
Anabely – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I believe that this training was very informative and productive. It went into detail
Karen – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This module really spoke to me. And the activities suggested were outstanding. I will be using many of them in my history classroom.
Carolina – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
The course was very helpful and informative. I learned new techniques that I can use in my classroom.
Yvette – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course had a lot of great ideas to implement in the classroom.