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.
Lorianne – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
I did enjoy this course. It was one of the better and more useful GT trainings I have taken. Dr. Juntune’s CT activities will be easy to put into practice without a lot of “stuff”.
Jamie – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very motivating and informative.
Jessica – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
It’s a good course with many easy to implement ideas.
Cheryl – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
This was great.
Emily – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Full of strategies that I can implement immediately in my classroom.
Luis – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave me some very good ideas that I can use to get my students to think creatively. It also has helped me realize that I am teaching for the year 2039. I need to start thinking about what the world will look like then, and what my students need in order to be successful in their life.
Svetlana – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed a practice tool been provided in this course. I want to use them in my classroom
Taylor – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I loved getting to do the activities along with Dr. Juntune to know exactly what to do for the activities. Overall, this is a great course and I have learned a lot.
Cranesha – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome
Karen – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
Excellent