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.
Ann – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
There is a lot of good information in this course.
Stephanie – HUNTSVILLE ISD – TEXAS ONLINE PREP (verified owner) –
It’s good.
Hollie – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I think this was great! Everything was applicable or adaptable for my classroom.
Beth – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
Interesting and presents some good ideas
Martha – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed the training.
Kim – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
She is obviously an expert in this field and has many ideas to share.
Erin – JASPER ISD (verified owner) –
There are some really great ideas here. I like that it was somewhat interactive. This would definitely be better in person.
Suzanna – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful ways to help students become creative thinkers.
Rosario – HUNTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
useful
Brianna – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I think there are great core ideas in this course. I would like to see activities that are more relatable to students today with the resources that are avaliable.