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.
Mileena – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Alejandra – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
very informative!
Carolina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course helped me understand how I can incorporate creative thinking in my classroom.
Daniel – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was very helpful.
Jennifer – Private Pay (verified owner) –
This class was fine but not really more than tips and tricks.
Janice – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for activities to use in the classroom
Julian – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
It had some helpful tips.
Diana – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Great – lots of good ideas to implement in the classroom
Gayla – Brazosport ISD (verified owner) –
I think there were many useful ideas, although I see mostly examples of how to use them in a language arts and math classroom.
Janet – Brazosport ISD (verified owner) –
I really think these strategies will create a better classroom of thinkers. I am thankful that I needed to complete heese 30 hours of GT. I plan to implement these in my classroom.