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.
Maria – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This was a very interesting class.
Lorranec – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
Love the course.
Doyna – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
It is very useful. You can implement many of the techniques presented in this course to apply them in your daily instruction routines.
Araceli – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Course gave a good overview and activities.
Kevin – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
It was helpful
Kelli – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
Good..informative
Rebecca – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I really liked the different strategies that can help students think beyond the norm.
Annette – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Enjoyed learning more about different strategies to help my gift and talented students in my classroom.
BreAna – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
lots of good ideas that can be directly applied to any classroom
Lander – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative.