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.
Paula – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
Awesome instructor! Awesome course!
I have a BS in Psychology; I wish I had Dr. Juntune for an instructor during my college years.
Jennifer – DESOTO ISD (verified owner) –
Useful information but lengthy.
Lauren – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for my GT students as well as the whole class.
Julie – MIAMI EAST LOCAL (verified owner) –
This was an excellent course with lots of ideas for the classroom.
William – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I like how this workshop opened my mind to giving students the opportunity to have unusual ideas.
travis – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Very good organization to help develop a plan of action for teaching creative thinking. I like how I learned ways to develop this and that it is not just weird strange ways of thinking.
Stephanie – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Very thorough course with an excellent speaker!
Melissa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
informational
Cenia – SAN ELIZARIO ISD (verified owner) –
Great Course!
Manuel – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
It is a great trianing!!!!!