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.
CJ – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this presentation more than the previous. Most likely because it showed me examples of application of the ideas presented.
Ana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was AMAZING! Loved how much we I will now integrate to my classroom to build up students creative thinking.
Clarissa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course offered different learning strategies for all students and examples for each.
Roxanna – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
very beneficial and useful information that can be easily implemented in the classroom
Yesenia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and had very useful techniques that are helpful in the classroom.
Perla – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It is a great course. It really helped me to think of the many possibilities to stimulate a students creative thinking. The methods proposed in this course can be easily incorporated in my classroom.
Vanessa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was a good course, but very long sitting for 6+hours straight.
Alejandra – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful as it allowed me to think of new strategies I can foster creativity in my classroom. I work with 6 and y-year-olds who have all this creativity and I had not considered, how different my classroom would be if only I used this to my advantage.
PERLA – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I find this course extremely helpful and relevant to what needs to happen in the classroom. I would love to receive more training like these, which provide ideas that are realistic and can easily be implemented in the classroom.
Cynthia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course. I learned plenty of information I can use with all of my students to help them learn.