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.
Claudia – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Relevant and helpful tools to use in the classroom.
Daniel – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Vicki – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
Content was awesome. Computer connectivity for open-ended responses was a problem, again. Module 1 required multiple submissions on multiple log ins to finally accept one of the submissions. (One recorded the very first time.) Module 4 also required multiple submissions to record. – I would recommend the content, but not the online version.
Jessica – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
Great ideas to implement in the classroom!
Karina – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune is great explaining all the strategies.
Pablo – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
Plenty of strategies. Dr. Joyce makes it interesting and pleasant to listen.
David – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
So many great ideas. Easy to follow.
Viviana – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent ideas
Rita – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and great ideas for class.
Dora – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed the presentation and the presenter was easy to follow and understand.