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.
Michelle – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very useful strategies
Lorelei – VIDOR ISD (verified owner) –
I like the specific activities taught for my classroom.
Damalu – ROUND ROCK ISD (verified owner) –
Great in class ideas and activities to share and try out for the year
Astha – ROUND ROCK ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave me great activities to take back to the classroom so I can use creative thinking with my students!
Reilly – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I really like how this course included more science/math examples in addition to the rich ELAR resources. It’s just as important to apply creative thinking in math/science.
Kywesha – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great and insightful! Lots of ideas and resources to take back into the classroom.
Haley – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
This is a useful course
CHRISTINA S – DICKINSON ISD (verified owner) –
Great examples and resources!
Karissa – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
This has been my favorite module of the training so far! Very insightful.
Nathaniel – WALLER ISD (verified owner) –
I thought it was great. I learned a great deal and will impliment what I have learned in the class.