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.
Emely – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course gives plenty of examples of how the strategies can be used in the classroom and how they improve learning.
Meredith – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
There are some great instructional techniques in this course, however it is VERY long.
Devyn – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave me ideas for activities to put in my classroom.
Margarita – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course is gives you many strategies to incorporate creative thinking in your classroom.
Debra – HUNTSVILLE ISD – TEXAS ONLINE PREP (verified owner) –
She has some great ideas on fostering creativity in our students – loved that she offered examples for math classrooms!
Stephanie – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
I got some great ideas.
Kristi – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
great!
David – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This GT course has great ideas for teachers to perform great
creative thinking lessons for their students. I do recommend this class sessions to teacher that want to improve thier teaching methods.
Reyna – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
It is a bit to long. took more thank 6 hours.
Sabrina – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great.