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.
Clorandy – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Full of meaningful ideas
Analynn – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful and informative. The teaching strategies and management are great ways to implement in class in order to maximize learning.
Tina – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
This course was fine in giving different examples for different methods of teaching.
Caleb – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
excellent
Sophia – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It was helpful.
Diana – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It was fine.
Manuel – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
good
Teresa – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
The examples provided were very beneficial along with the teacher participation opportunity.
Ellie – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I found the things in this section usable in a busy classroom. Things that can added to pre-existing lesson plans and that don’t take away from an entire developed lesson.
Jasmin – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great educational content on critical thinking.