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.
Karla – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Love it!
Brianna – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great information for my classroom.
Daira – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I think it has some great insights and some good strategies to use in everyone’s classroom.
Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
All teachers should be taking GT courses because in every classroom setting we have students with different skill levels and backgrounds. This course is insightful on how to differentiate instruction.
Dinorah – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was excellent. It is insightful and helpful.
ingrid – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course had very insightful advice that can be used in the classroom.
Samantha – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative.
Ariana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It is a course with many strategies that are available for teachers to implement in the classroom.
Sanjuanita – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Overall, I loved the course! Dr. Junetune gave us a lot of resources to use in the classroom.
Mayte – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great!