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.
Dulce – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting.
Rhoda – SINTON ISD (verified owner) –
great course
Noemi – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this portion because the presenter shared many in-class activities to incorporate that were relevant. I liked how she touched a variety of content subjects so that this training was not only applicable to one subject.
Cynthia – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Lots of good ideas
Trista – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Lots of hands on, useful strategies are given that can be implemented in your classroom easily and effectively.
Cherise – Private Pay (verified owner) –
was good
Ruby – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Fresh ideas that you can use in the classroom
Hope – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent. Really makes you think.
Frances – FRONTIER LOCAL (verified owner) –
I found this very interesting. She keeps your attention and in active listening.
Gina – Private Pay (verified owner) –
This training was very informative and gives me lots of use techniques/ideas to implement in my classroom.