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!
Araceli – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course with a lot of helpful strategies.
Alejandra – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
This course allows me to go at my own pace, learning along the way. Being able to view videos, interact with others, and take quick assessments along the way make it very manageable.
Matthew – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave me good ideas of how to incorporate creativity into my classroom for gifted students.
Susan – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course is well done, but it is definitely more appropriate for elementary and middle school. This does not have as many feasible techniques for high school.
Ericka – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this training and I learned many great strategies to better support my students.
Misty – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
Great information!
Joanna – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
May practical ideas!
Jacinta – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Yesenia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great information and explanations.
Andrea – DRISCOLL ISD (verified owner) –
I highly recommend this course. I found this workshop to be very informative and I will definitely apply these strategies in my lessons to spark my students to think creatively.
Erica – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This course assist with great strategies I never thought of.
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.
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.
Kathleen – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
It had some good strategies for developing creativity
Patricia – MIDLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I will do
Odette – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This course has information that is not only informative but applies to various grade levels.
Bryce – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
Good.
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.
Enrique – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Learned a lot of useful skills.
Ryan – HUNTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Good Just I dont enjoy online training
Crystal – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the activities as well as listening to Mrs. Juntune speak.
Rachel – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Again, I love the activities!
Patrick – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
good course
Christy – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and can be applied to many students.
Heraldo – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Its a great course.
Monica – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful! I have new ideas to implement.
Damon – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I liked it.
Melissa – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
This was one of the best courses I have taken in my 20 years of teaching. I learned many things that I can implement in my classroom and it gives me renewed energy for teaching! Thank you Dr. Juntune!
Djorkaeff – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed learning about the Three U’s and the SCAMPER strategy.
ALBA – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
this is the best and most relevant gt training I’ve ever taken!
Efrain – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great Workshop!
Velma – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
The ideas of creativity can be used across every subject. They are easy to put in place in the classroom.
William – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very intersting!
Marsha – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed taking this course. It helped me to find different ways to help my students develop their creative thinking.
Christine – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
I truly loved all of the different strategies and need to plan where to implement them in my curriculum.
Tina – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Fostering creativity in the classroom is broken down into achievable steps.
Ivy – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
awesome
Jennifer – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Insightful course.
Jaxon – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It was efficient
Nayani – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
great course
Ellen – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great simple ideas you can use to develop creative thinking.
Whitney – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
awesome
Kelsey – GAHANNA-JEFFERSON CITY (verified owner) –
Wonderful course with practical and useful activities! She got me excited to try different things in my classroom. She also made me think about how we are creating critical thinkers of the future.
Brittney – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Great learning
Frank – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very hands on! Lots of opportunities for the teacher to be the “student”.
Mary – FORT BEND ISD (verified owner) –
It is 10PM and I am taking my 30 (more like 40) hours of GT training at 3-4 hour stretches a night. What I like: The presenter is passionate and engaging, however, my family has been listening to the training (I am on the computer in the living room) with me. They are also all teachers, and every single one of them finds the presenter’s voice and presentation style to be annoying and/or pedantic. The information is organized well. Use the microscopic Resources button at the top of the white ResponsiveLearning screen to download the resources from this presentation for future digestion. Which brings me to what I don’t like: This is an administration thing, but taking these courses back to back is exhausting. If we were to do this to our students they and their parents would be screaming at admin for our heads. The saddest part is that it is great information, but I am too fatigued by the volume of information to properly digest it. Also, the assessments are a joke. They are either written responses that nobody will ever read, or multiple choice/ true/false that you can take over and over until you get it right. Once you figure this out, it is even harder to pay attention, knowing that the assessments don’t actually quantify your learning. A better method for assessment, if it had to be multiple choice, would be to be presented with several lesson plans, units, activities, etc. and be asked to choose which one best fits the concept being learned. Then, after you’ve made your selection, be given a few lines to explain and defend your answer.
Deja – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome!
Jessica – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed the wonderful ideas and activities.
Joel – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
Better. I think because she didn’t use the word “gifted” once on the past 6 hours.
Claudia – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful for developing critical thinkers.