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.
Leah – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great activities that you can use in the classroom!
Melody – HUGHES SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
The course was informative and applicable to any subject or grade level.
Jeanne – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune was engaging and down to earth. She explained the processes simply and concisely, which allowed me to process and absorb the information.
Ana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative. It gave me many ideas on different activities,
Lesley – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Jesus – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
That it is great! Extremely Helpful.
Erik – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great course
Ana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was a great course, I learned the importance of creative thinking.
YVETTE – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I like the many ideas that help the students think outside the box in order to elaborate their thinking, writing, and speaking. I love the way we challenge/guide students to higher level thought and problem solving skills.
Adam – MIDLAND ISD (verified owner) –
This course has good activities that you can use in the classroom.