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!
Mayte – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Sanjuanita – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Overall, I loved the course! Dr. Junetune gave us a lot of resources to use in the classroom.
Ariana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It is a course with many strategies that are available for teachers to implement in the classroom.
Samantha – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative.
ingrid – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course had very insightful advice that can be used in the classroom.
Dinorah – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was excellent. It is insightful and helpful.
Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
All teachers should be taking GT courses because in every classroom setting we have students with different skill levels and backgrounds. This course is insightful on how to differentiate instruction.
Daira – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I think it has some great insights and some good strategies to use in everyone’s classroom.
Brianna – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great information for my classroom.
Karla – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Love it!
Jorge – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Good Course
Frances – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This class exceptional. It teaches us how to help our students think creatively
Shawn – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Great!
Juan – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent
Beverly – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
I am definitely going to incorporate these activities into my classroom.
Susan – WALLER ISD (verified owner) –
I absolutely loved this course. Even though I teach K it brings many useful ideas to mind that we could easily implement in the classroom. This is out of the box thinking and the students need these kinds of activities.
Sharon – Private Pay (verified owner) –
This course gave several activities that I will be able to implement in my classroom.
Jessica – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Mark – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
I thought there were some good ideas, but there was a great deal of padding, as well. This could have easily been a 3-hour course, rather than a 6-hour course.
Chasity – WALLER ISD (verified owner) –
I love the mini activities!
Caitlin – MIAMI TRACE LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course really got me thinking of ways to implement strategies that encourage my students to think creatively in the classroom. Lots of good examples in a wide variety of grade levels and subject areas.
Jeremy – FORT BEND ISD (verified owner) –
great stuff
Rachel – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Useful information but kinda annoying format. I hated clicking through constantly and the activities seemed a little ridiculous sitting at a computer outside of the room. I feel like something like a podcast with a final quiz or takeaway would be better.
Wilda – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
It is a great course and nice to be able to reflect at home while listening to Dr. Juntune connecting with real life students and scenarios.
Claudia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Extremely helpful
Danielle – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
great!
Keeley – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great ideas to try in the classroom.
Patrice – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these ideas!!!
Brad – EANES ISD (verified owner) –
This course is full of great ideas if you teach younger students. Upper level math, not so much. But the ideas behind the activities are still good.
Julie – Private Pay (verified owner) –
amazing course
Tiffany – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful!
Wendi – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this creative thinking course and realize that it was geared toward all students. However, I was curious, is there anything that you would do differently with gifted and talented students in regards to creative thinking?
Ashley – FRIENDSWOOD ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and gave some additional resources that could be implemented in the the classroom.
Delores – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed the activities that were shared to use with the students.
Jamie – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Good early on the latter part not so much. Except for the SCAMPER technique.
Lynne – Private Pay (verified owner) –
It has abundant practical ideas even for high school.
Robie – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Good ideas for the classroom.
Robin – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course because I feel that I learned some tools to take back to my classroom to help with creativity.
Brooke – Private Pay (verified owner) –
5 stars
Ashley – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very useful and informative.
Christina – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I like the activities given in this course. I plan to use some of them for various subjects. I also like the filler activities
Blanca – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was an incredible course with a variety of useful instructional strategies to use for creative thinking. Highly recommend.
Kimberly – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great program
Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
helpful and detailed
Guadalupe – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed learning about the SCAMPER technique and the rest of the information mentioned in this training;
Kelley – LAKE TRAVIS ISD (verified owner) –
This course offers many ideas to add to the curriculum to bolster creative thinking with your students.
Kristen – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I think I got so much insight from this course.
Isabel – Pilot (verified owner) –
Excellent
Amber – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I like the different ideas given to improve critical thinking.
Erin – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
This course gives great examples on how to bring creative thinking to your classroom.