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.
Cynthia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Creative Thinking will improve education for all students. Dr. Juntune does an excellent job presenting the whys, what for, and how to of this subject. One thing that would improve the online course is making the referenced handouts available. None of the links seemed to work.
Blanca – DICKINSON ISD (verified owner) –
Great activities to use in the classroom!!
Jorge – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This course helped me understand how to help developed creativity with the gifted student.
Cynthia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
helpful content
William – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Developing creative thinkers is so necessary in this everchanging world we live in. We need this more than ever.
Melissa – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Very valuable information , ideas, and advice. This will help me meet my students needs.
Hilda – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the ideas for critical thinking.
Juanita – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course provided many activities that you can take back to your classroom. I truly recommend this course to everyone.
Steven – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Th majority of the ideas presented are excellent but it has been repeated frequently, throughout, that they work best for elementary students. It would be nice for ideas for the upper grades, high school, to be presented and applications discussed.
Blanca – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
This course give us very practical strategies to develop Creative Thinking in the Classroom, and you could apply these strategies to scaffold not just your GT but your whole class and apply the strategies across most subjects