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.
Dawn – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
I love the idea of the 10 Minute Bulletin Board using “Expand a Sentence”!
Francisco – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This course gave me real good ideas for activities that I can implement in my classroom.
Omega – SAN ELIZARIO ISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting how can we use the scamper technique in our classroom and make it a useful tool
Andrea – MIAMI TRACE LOCAL (verified owner) –
Many of these techniques would work well at the elementary level.
Vickie – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It is very helpful
Jamie – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to implement creative thinking of the students in our classrooms and for them in their later years.
Tiffany – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
Helpful with practical strategies to integrate into the classroom.
Michael – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Good
Mary – HALLETTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and provided great ideas to use in the classroom.
Virginia – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great activities to develop creative thinking.