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.
jesus – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
ok
Monica – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very good and useful information to incorporate into the classroom.
Ryan – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
This course helped me get some new ideas for improving my classroom and what students do during class time so that it is more helpful toward their learning.
Megan – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
Would love more ideas to use in the classroom
Noemi – SAN ELIZARIO ISD (verified owner) –
This course is very interesting and provide us with useful strategies that are easy to implement in the classroom.
Shahla – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
One of the best courses I’ve ever had. Thank You for putting all this together.
Blanca – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It was an good course.
Rina – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I think that this course is very helpful for a teacher to understand the different levels of students in the classroom.
Sarah – SWEENY ISD (verified owner) –
I think this is a great course that gives good techniques for teachers to use in the classroom.
Andre – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
fun