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.
Lisa – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for GT students!
Ricardo – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was awesome
Osme – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I strongly feel that this the creative thinking material covered in this course is very valuable to teachers. I find the strategies and activities very interesting and I plan on using many of these in my Resource room classroom. This was an excellent presentation that is applicable to my current needs as an educator of young learners.
Novachristina – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I loved the course and all of the wonderful strategies I can implement into my classroom!
SELINDA – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome
Diana – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting, helps me to think what should be the main focus to teach my students. and how to lead them to build comprehension at young age.
Phyllis – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Well presented.
Johnie – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune offers excellent ideas for teachers to use and explains why they work so well!
Megan – Brazosport ISD (verified owner) –
I loved this course! I will be using the expand a sentence and letters as tools activities in my classroom from now on!
Diane – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
This training is useful and interesting. I wish it had more ideas for Math, but I can see how I can incorporate with Math in some situations and activities.