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.
Clelia – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It was very interesting. I always enjoy her talks and ideas.
Rebecca – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great Course!
Evelyn – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas that can easily be modified to spur creative thinking in all age groups and across all subjects.
Christina – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to implement in classrooms.
Suzette – MISSION CISD (verified owner) –
I like the self pace of this course and the innovative ideas I can implement in my class.
Kathleen – PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
This was another awesome course. Joyce has so many stories that I can relate to in my teaching. A lot of her resources are also quite useful. I will download many of them and use them in the fall.
Jessakah – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was full of great ideas to elicit creative thinking. There are strategies that only take a few minutes to do, but yield high results.
Jacqueline – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course. Dr. Juntune demonstrated many activities that will be very useful in the classroom.
Violeta – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I like the activities that were given for each strategy of Critical Thinking.
Judith – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Informative techniques