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.
Carol – GIDDINGS ISD (verified owner) –
I am taking the course online and, to my knowledge, do not have access to the pages that are referred to from time to time in a book. other than that, I enjoyed the course and learned many useful techniques that I can use throughout the year with all of my students.
Samuel – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Great video filled with information and good examples you could implement in classrooms even today.
Colton – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I learned many new techniques to try out in the classroom!
Lamberto – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
The course was very helpful and provided great knowledge and practices to utilize in the classroom.
Keisha – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
There are a lot of examples that seem somewhat outdated or not as relevant for a secondary classroom but several concepts are transferable
Ramon – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great and informative.
Ashley – Private Pay (verified owner) –
good training
Victoria – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I wish there were more powerpoint slides as she talks. I am more of a visual learner and it’s hard to stay focused during the video clips of her just talking.
Laura – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
This was an amazing course.
David – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
It is a useful course for the subject it relates to.