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.
Lesly – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed it. It gives good approaches that can be used in the classroom.
Jessica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great Course.
Laura – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This training teaches many way to help the students success in our classrooms. Very informative.
Carmen – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful to start implementing creativity in the classroom on a different level. It has allowed me to start to think outside the box.
Jewelie – PRIORITY CHARTER SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
It gives good suggestions on how to get students to think outside the box.
Jessica – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and generates a lot of great ideas to use in the classroom.
Iliana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great course! Provides several strategies to implement into your classroom to get students to think.
Perla – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I would prefer if it didn’t have so many reflective questions maybe like 1 or 2 per module.,
Lindsey – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very insightful.
Ana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I like several of the tips given in this course. Definitely, will use more than one of them.