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.
Ryan – HUNTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Good Just I dont enjoy online training
Enrique – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Learned a lot of useful skills.
Elia – SAN ELIZARIO ISD (verified owner) –
Very insightful. I love not only the diversity of the activities, but also the purpose as to why each strategy works.
Bryce – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
Good.
Odette – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This course has information that is not only informative but applies to various grade levels.
Patricia – MIDLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I will do
Kathleen – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
It had some good strategies for developing creativity
RannDee – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune is a great speaker with a lot of insight into the field of creative thinking. I enjoyed the course.
Lilliana – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoy Dr. Juntune’s videos. I wish I could have the handouts in a packet or a book with few explanation of each template.
Erica – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This course assist with great strategies I never thought of.