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.
Ashley – HUNTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas.
Linnea – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Very useful and informative
Katalina – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Very Very Long
Erika – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
Seeing the ordinary as estraodinary ideas I like to much
Haygen – HOLLAND ISD (verified owner) –
it helped me have ideas on how to get the students to elaborate more
Aaron – New Lexington City Schools (verified owner) –
I thought this class provided good information that can be applied universally for many grade levels. She did a good job presenting the information in a way that it is understandable and relative to what’s important for me as an educator.
Lester – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I has given great ideas to implement in my classroom and make it a much better learning environment for my students.
Olivia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas with explicit examples for implementation.
Nadine – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great activities to promote critical thinking.
Yvonne – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course. I have added several tools to my teacher toolbox.