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.
Rolando – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
This course allows what classrooms are missing today: creative thinking. A lot of times, and I’m guilty as charged, I don’t always allow my students to think about what it is that they’re learning. This course will hopefully allow me to do so with simple tasks the students can do in relation to their subject and lesson objectives.
William – FORT BEND ISD (verified owner) –
I found the course highly informative and will utilize the methods that were discussed to foster creative thinking in the classroom.
Krista – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent
Eric – EANES ISD (verified owner) –
I really liked many of the new ways of looking at how to get students to think in a classroom.
Ashley – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
5 STARS
Mallory – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
offered great creative thinking techniques that I will implement in my classroom.
Maria – WALLER ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative to become a stronger GT certified educator
rosalinda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great presenation , Dr. Joyce did an excellent job in presenting using actual life stories. The course was like a refresher couse that I took many years ago but with many new ideas to help our students become creative thinkers.
Melanie – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was useful to me, because I got many ideas that I could use in my classroom.
Maricela – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
This is absolutely a great course! Creative Thinking needs to be implemented in every classroom.