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.
Monica – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I think this course is very insightful on how to push our students to be creative thinkers and take ownership of their learning. This training helped me understand new methods to help push my students to be more creative and expand their knowledge in a student centered manner.
Laura – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
It was interesting and gave great ideas on how to foster creative/critical thinking in the classroom.
Marisol – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
Very informative
HECTOR – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course learned a lot.
Net – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
great session
Thalia – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I believe this course has helped me understand and value the gifted.
Diane – HALLETTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This is great for Language Art teachers! I wish more ways were given for incorporating into the math class setting.
Maria – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Amazing!
Mark – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I love her ideas!
Alvaro – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This course is magnificent, and I recommend this course to everyone.