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.
Deborah – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I love the way this training was a series of videos, quizzes, and discussions. Watching educational videos and participating in the interactive portions is helpful as we continue to grow our skills.
Marcy – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
It was beneficial
Karla – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Extremely informative and offers different strategies that can be used across subjects!
Rodney – River View Local Schools (verified owner) –
I found this course suprisingly helpfull. I t has a lot of practical ideas that can easily been applied to my classroom
Kaitlyn – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Simple, yet effective! I loved the reflection questions and being able to read ideas form other teachers.
Taylor – Logan-Hocking Local Schools (verified owner) –
Decent course for primary education, not as applicable to secondary level in my opinion.
Venessa – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Insightful. Refreshing. Love her enthusiasm.
Allison – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Very interesting with some novel ideas I want to try in my classroom
Derly – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
great course!
Jessica – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very useful