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.
Chelsea – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great!
kevin – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
Its long and very detailed but excellent ideas.
Stacy – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the course and ideas for differentiation in the classroom.
Amanda – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I love the focus on creative independent thinking in students. The variety of different resources and implementation on how to use them.
Keni – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Best course on this subject that I could imagine. She had a better way to teach everything that we are teaching. Paid for the course myself as part of new teacher training. Best investment decision I made all year.
Leonardo – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Loved this course. Hope more get developed for the fine arts though.
Robert – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Small video sections are distracting, breaks apart the learning in a disjunct way.
Jayna – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I love all of the ideas Dr. Juntune presented for creative thinking. The strategies are simple and require little to no prep, but have big outcomes with the students.
John – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Insightful in respect for helping students to become thinkers in elaboration.
Adriana – 588 Co-op (verified owner) –
Great!