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.
Katy – GIDDINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Easy course to follow along on your own time.
Debra – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Many, Many useful tools for the classroom!
Aida – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course, with all the informative information to incorporate into the classroom.
Margarita – SAN ELIZARIO ISD (verified owner) –
This course has helped me to understand creative thinking and how to help my students.
Abby – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course.
Cynthia – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and insightful, great ideas to implement in the classroom.
Rebecca – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
It gave me a lot of helpful tools.
Gloria – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the course very much and think critical thinking is important for teachers to understand and use in their core subject like math or ELAR.
Rosebella – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This is an excellent course to help teachers value creative thinking in the classroom. I will employ many of these strategies in my classroom. It is an excellent teaching for teachers who want to make a unique impact in the life of their students.
Jeanice – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner) –
good