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.
Robert – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune did an excellent job explaining Developing Creative Thinking in the Classroom.
Sarah – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course that challenged me to change up the way I am teaching as well as how I am expecting students to demonstrate learning.
Kerri – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I like the classroom examples for how to use the various creative thinking strategies.
Nhat – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I love it! Dr. Juntune has so many great ideas and her training is always so insightful.
Joseph – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was actually very useful and offered many strategies you can implement immediately.
Larisel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This is was very interesting.
Staci – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
This professional development had ideas that I could take back to school and implement immediately.
Felipe – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
very insightful. Like it a lot.
Araceli – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Nora – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Extremely informative and useful.