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.
Diana – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It was great very informative
Margaretanne – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
I did not have the handouts, so it was a little confusing.
Karen – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It is a very informative and useful course especially for a first year GT teacher like myself.
Abbigail – ORANGEFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
I think it is really great.
Hilda – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this course was resourceful. It will help me implement new ideas into my Kindergarten classroom.
Connie – Angleton ISD (verified owner) –
This is an outstanding course and I am already changing the way I think.
Sarah – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
I like the key concepts that Dr. Juntune was getting across, however I think that she could have been much more concise with her ideas. She talked about getting points across while being as concise as possible, but I felt that she too could have been more concise.
Sellina – TULOSO-MIDWAY ISD (verified owner) –
This course affirmed that I am doing some things in my classroom to allow my students to become creative thinkers. It also provided me with some great ideas to begin implementing in my classroom that I can see my students truly growing from and enjoying.
thania – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
great helpful trainings
Janine – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
The course provides a lot of information to help push your students to actually think.