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.
Jana – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
I liked getting specific activities,
Janta – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I was excited because I learned actual techniques that I could use in my classroom
Melisa – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I learned so much and would recommend this course to anyone.
Michelle – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
lots of useful information
Genevieve – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This course is fantastic! It is super simple to follow along and offers ideas and resources that can be used in the classroom immediately.
Nancy – NORTH EAST ISD (verified owner) –
It was nice learning different ways of enhancing creative thinking I had not thought of or practiced in my classroom.
Floricel – WALLER ISD (verified owner) –
The course was simple and clear. All the ideas are very useful and easy to implement.
Jane – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
Interesting class with methods that would be easy to implement in your own classroom.
Amanda – ARANSAS PASS ISD (verified owner) –
It is great.
Leticia – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I would like to see more examples and student examples.