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.
Chelsi – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Very well structured and easy to follow.
Anna – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Really good and easy to follow and understand
Annabel – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
insightful.
Darci – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was helpful and easy to follow.
Brian – Springfield City School District (verified owner) –
Very good insights from a teacher that has had a long career at many different levels and area of education about how critical thinking impacts teaching.
Antoine – EANES ISD (verified owner) –
This course, while cute, will not help me significantly in my dealings with high school students.
Victoria – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
A very informative course.
Luis – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course help you to develop new ideas to work with your student. However, the ideas presented during this course are excellent and you can use them in your classroom immediately.
Jenna – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course was very informative and engaging. I enjoyed all the interactive activities that this training provided. She provided great examples of each technique!
Josalyne – ROSCOE ISD (verified owner) –
I learned so many great strategies to implement in my own teaching as well in myself.