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.
Erika – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great training!!! I loved everything.
Melissa – Private Pay (verified owner) –
This course was extremely helpful in finding strategies to build creative thinking.
Gregorio – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I think Developing creative thinking is a really good course. It gave us different activities that can be used in the classroom.
monica – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course!
LaDonna – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
5 stars
Sandy – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
great activities and resources that think outside the box and encourage creative thinking.
Desmond – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I think the course is great!
David – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
It’s useful for the strategies, but I’d like to see some more data on the usefulness of the methods.
Erin – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent information- It is not only to reach your gifted students, but teaches strategies to help all of your students be better students and better thinkers in general. I really appreciated the information presented and am excited to take it to my students 🙂
Gus – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
It shows how easy it is to take simple everyday tasks, and how to make them challenging and fun for the students. The student engagement will increase with the implementation of these activities.