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.
Madison – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
loved it
Rita – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
Provides great insight to the gifted students and how to continue to grow them as well as providing the tools.
Oscar – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It is a little stressing when the estimate time is not the same than the real time consumed during the test.
It feels to long sometimes, specially when some numbers open a lot of activities to complete.
Milagros – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I am visual learner, and hearing and hearing during large times is boring. Also, the estimated time is wrong, these modules are taking more time.
Cynthia – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
Great course that gives you tools you can apply in your classroom immediately.
Stephanie – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course! It has given me great insight on how to implement creative thinking in my classroom.
Geremy – GALENA PARK ISD (verified owner) –
Great information that will help you better serve your students
Kelly – TIPP CITY EXEMPTED VILLAGE (verified owner) –
Great course! I learned a lot.
Lisa – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas that can easily be implemented in your classroom.
Alejandro – ZAPATA COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Loved it.