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.
Lisa – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for my classroom!
Jennifer – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course is insightful and easy to understand with her visuals and examples.
Gregoria – SAN ELIZARIO ISD (verified owner) –
Course is too long.
Karla – ROUND ROCK ISD (verified owner) –
Great course full of quick turn-around activities
Claudia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Extremely helpful ideas
Samantha – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Very useful creative ideas for elaboration.
Gabrielle – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
I liked it! It had lots of tools I could use inside the classroom.
Jennifer – PORT CLINTON CITY (verified owner) –
The ideas presented in this class were not really unique.
Ashley – HUDSON ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and enjoyable. I’ve gained useful tools and strategies that I will use and have used this year in my gifted classroom.
Rachel – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
I think this is a good course for GT students; however, many of the techniques are hard to apply to a math class.