Developing Creative Thinking in the Classroom (6-Hour)

$90.00

Presenter: Dr. Joyce Juntune, Texas A&M University
Core Area: Creativity & Instructional Strategies 
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary 
Hours: 6


Knowledge is no longer a competitive advantage. The job market is flooded with applicants who possess the knowledge necessary to complete a job. However, in today’s world creativity and creative thinking are the skills that prepare our students for success. Joyce Juntune, Ph.D., is passionate about teaching educators to both inspire academic achievement and develop creative thinking in the classroom.   

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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!

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2321 reviews for Developing Creative Thinking in the Classroom (6-Hour)

  1. Alejandro – ZAPATA COUNTY ISD (verified owner)

    Loved it.

  2. Lisa – Aldine ISD (verified owner)

    Great ideas that can easily be implemented in your classroom.

  3. Kelly – TIPP CITY EXEMPTED VILLAGE (verified owner)

    Great course! I learned a lot.

  4. Geremy – GALENA PARK ISD (verified owner)

    Great information that will help you better serve your students

  5. Stephanie – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner)

    Great course! It has given me great insight on how to implement creative thinking in my classroom.

  6. Cynthia – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner)

    Great course that gives you tools you can apply in your classroom immediately.

  7. Milagros – CONROE ISD (verified owner)

    I am visual learner, and hearing and hearing during large times is boring. Also, the estimated time is wrong, these modules are taking more time.

  8. Oscar – SPRING ISD (verified owner)

    It is a little stressing when the estimate time is not the same than the real time consumed during the test.
    It feels to long sometimes, specially when some numbers open a lot of activities to complete.

  9. Rita – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner)

    Provides great insight to the gifted students and how to continue to grow them as well as providing the tools.

  10. Madison – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner)

    loved it

  11. Tabitha – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner)

    It was interesting

  12. Odis – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner)

    Outstanding!

  13. Yessica – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner)

    The course provides great insights and resources that will let your students thinking creatively. These tools will also allow the teacher to create an active learning environment.

  14. Kristin – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner)

    This course had some good ideas to implement in the classroom.

  15. Rashida – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner)

    great

  16. Cynthia – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner)

    Very knowledgeable

  17. Joy – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner)

    It is useful.

  18. Kaci – Aldine ISD (verified owner)

    It was great

  19. Catherine – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner)

    Lots of great ideas!

  20. Rebecca – Aldine ISD (verified owner)

    I liked how thorough it was.

  21. Katlyn – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner)

    I thought this course was useful.

  22. Savannah – Private Pay (verified owner)

    This course was very user friendly!

  23. James – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner)

    Great

  24. Laura – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner)

    Great course.

  25. Victoria – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner)

    Good

  26. Stephanie – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner)

    Great insite

  27. Daniel – ZAPATA COUNTY ISD (verified owner)

    great

  28. Jamie – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner)

    NOt as helpful as the others.

  29. Christian – SPRING ISD (verified owner)

    For a required course, it was not bad. Rather long though.

  30. Sarah – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner)

    I liked this course, but it would be more effective if it was specific to grade levels (eg elementary groups and high school groups) and/or specific to content areas.

  31. Heather – BURLESON ISD (verified owner)

    This course had a lot of good information.

  32. Leslie – Aldine ISD (verified owner)

    Good.

  33. Jasmin – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner)

    Great Information!

  34. Paula – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner)

    Great…I love being able to complete on my own timeframe with no pressure…or sub plans.

  35. Taylor – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner)

    This course gives your great strategies to use in your classroom.

  36. Lizette – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner)

    Love it, great ideas and examples.

  37. Katharine – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner)

    I think this was useful in helping me to work with students thinking creatively both the students who are qualified as gifted and my students as a whole.

  38. Rita – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner)

    I have never taken a GT class before. I have learned so many wonderful techniques to include creative thinking in my classroom.

  39. Yolanda – ODEM-EDROY ISD (verified owner)

    This course was the very informative.

  40. Adam – BURLESON ISD (verified owner)

    Too long. A lot of unnecessary information.

  41. Sonali – KATY ISD (verified owner)

    I really like the course

  42. Todd – FRONTIER LOCAL (verified owner)

    Great course. Many useful tools.

  43. Ester – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner)

    Awesome

  44. Nicol – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner)

    Great course

  45. Jon – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner)

    great

  46. Chelsea – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    It was very helpful!

  47. Melissa – ALICE ISD (verified owner)

    This is a wonderful course and it was worth the time spent on it.

  48. Kelsey – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner)

    Excellent ideas! Easy to understand and implement.

  49. Erin – BURLESON ISD (verified owner)

    It has a lot of useful techniques that I can put right to work

  50. Misty – VIDOR ISD (verified owner)

    This course is very informative and beneficial to anyone that is going to be teaching gifted children.

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