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.
Yolanda – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful!
Lori – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Love it! The best course I have taken this year.
Katie – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I was skeptical of taking an online course for gifted learning because it seemed like it would be something where I would need to discuss with my peers. Instead, I was able to take the ideas back to my co-workers, share my knowledge by introducing an activity to them, and discuss how it worked with our students. It was more beneficial than many face to face courses because I could take it over time and review it as much as possible.
Catherine – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
it was good
Alexis – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed it. It was very informative and helped with ideas to use within the classroom.
Kacey – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very insightful and helped me work through struggles in the classroom.
Evelyn – SAN ELIZARIO ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome
Tabitha – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was useful and can be applied to various lessons.
Bonnie – ALPINE ISD (verified owner) –
Wow the things I leaned and could take to my class!!!
LaVytrice – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting