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.
Robert – Brazosport ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juneten was very knowledgeable and experienced with the content.
Kristi – HUNTSVILLE ISD – TEXAS ONLINE PREP (verified owner) –
Fantastic! Love the practice pieces.
John – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Not bad for required professional development.
Francelli – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful and insightful. I enjoyed all of the strategies.
Raul – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This course helped to expand on strategies that are already being used in the classroom.
Jacob – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner) –
Great course, very instructive!
Meagan – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I felt that course was very informative about ways I can incorporate activities that help my students engage in academic activities while allowing them a chance to be creative and independent.
Isabel – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course was very informative and provided me with insight about key strategies that I can use in my own classroom. It also provided me with how to implement those strategies, as well as examples of what they look like.
Irasema – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I wish I had this course before I started teaching. This has had a huge impact and I can’t wait to start implementing these creative thinking strategies and activities that I have learned.
LISA – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to implement in your classroom.