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.
JOSE – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Help you think out of the box
Brianna Rae – Springfield City School District (verified owner) –
The resources were amazing, and the concepts were described very well in-depth. It was easy to see how the concepts applied to my classroom.
Cayla – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
helpful
Caroline – REYNOLDSBURG CITY (verified owner) –
This was a great overview. I always like practical activities that I can go into my classroom and use with my students tomorrow.
Thomas – LUFKIN ISD (verified owner) –
Overall good, a bit heavy on story telling and a little light on practical application of these tactics though they seem to be solid by themselves.
Beatriz – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
Good strategies
Christopher – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
Overall it was a great course, I just wish it could have been in person to ask questions for clarification on certain areas I did not understand fully.
Naomi – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great course, loved the activities
Melinda – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I absolutely love the ideas relayed to us in this course. Creatively thinking is so important to a student’s learning.
Cristina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It’s ok, slightly redundant.