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.
Kim – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I really like these courses. It makes you think about different ways to get all of your students involved in their own learning. It doesn’t have to be for only the gifted students, you can alter everything for all students so that everyone can benefit.
Valeria – TORNILLO ISD (verified owner) –
Good insights to creative thinking for students.
Donna – CHARDON LOCAL (verified owner) –
This was a great course with actual take away activities I can use in the classroom right away.
joanne – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This course is insightful. It provides useful ideas to implement in the classroom.
Lillian – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Anna – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
Fabulous!
Yolanda – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
This is a helpful course for using different strategies for developing thinkers in our classrooms.
Sarah – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Is very clear on how to use each strategy in the classroom.
Yvonne – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Valeria – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informational!