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.
Claudia – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful for developing critical thinkers.
Joel – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Better. I think because she didn’t use the word “gifted” once on the past 6 hours.
Jessica – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed the wonderful ideas and activities.
Deja – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome!
Mary – FORT BEND ISD (verified owner) –
It is 10PM and I am taking my 30 (more like 40) hours of GT training at 3-4 hour stretches a night. What I like: The presenter is passionate and engaging, however, my family has been listening to the training (I am on the computer in the living room) with me. They are also all teachers, and every single one of them finds the presenter’s voice and presentation style to be annoying and/or pedantic. The information is organized well. Use the microscopic Resources button at the top of the white ResponsiveLearning screen to download the resources from this presentation for future digestion. Which brings me to what I don’t like: This is an administration thing, but taking these courses back to back is exhausting. If we were to do this to our students they and their parents would be screaming at admin for our heads. The saddest part is that it is great information, but I am too fatigued by the volume of information to properly digest it. Also, the assessments are a joke. They are either written responses that nobody will ever read, or multiple choice/ true/false that you can take over and over until you get it right. Once you figure this out, it is even harder to pay attention, knowing that the assessments don’t actually quantify your learning. A better method for assessment, if it had to be multiple choice, would be to be presented with several lesson plans, units, activities, etc. and be asked to choose which one best fits the concept being learned. Then, after you’ve made your selection, be given a few lines to explain and defend your answer.
Frank – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very hands on! Lots of opportunities for the teacher to be the “student”.
Brittney – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Great learning
Kelsey – GAHANNA-JEFFERSON CITY (verified owner) –
Wonderful course with practical and useful activities! She got me excited to try different things in my classroom. She also made me think about how we are creating critical thinkers of the future.
Whitney – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
awesome
Ellen – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great simple ideas you can use to develop creative thinking.