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!
Maria Elena – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Excellent material to use with our students.
Jennifer – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I love Dr. Junetune I think she has amazing insight into the classroom and great strategies to implement
Hannah – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
It was great
Candice – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune is very engaging and her course surpassed all of my expectations for professional development. I could not wait to go to the next slide to see what I was going to learn next! I’ve never been this excited about PD. Her training has reinvigorated my teaching. If she can get this tired and burnt out teacher interested in learning, I am confident about getting my students to become creative thinkers with unique and understandable ideas!
Alvin – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
I love the videos. It helps balance the reading.
Leslee – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
great
Rachel – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
very helpful
Celeste – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the activities that allow students to connect personally with the content but also to make abstract or insightful discoveries. This course goes in depth on creative thinking and activities, and how to really harness creative thinking in the classroom.
Andreita – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I loved all the different ideas to generate creative thinking .
Rosalind – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Blanca – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
This course give us very practical strategies to develop Creative Thinking in the Classroom, and you could apply these strategies to scaffold not just your GT but your whole class and apply the strategies across most subjects
Steven – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Th majority of the ideas presented are excellent but it has been repeated frequently, throughout, that they work best for elementary students. It would be nice for ideas for the upper grades, high school, to be presented and applications discussed.
Juanita – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This course provided many activities that you can take back to your classroom. I truly recommend this course to everyone.
Hilda – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the ideas for critical thinking.
Melissa – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Very valuable information , ideas, and advice. This will help me meet my students needs.
William – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Developing creative thinkers is so necessary in this everchanging world we live in. We need this more than ever.
Cynthia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
helpful content
Jorge – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This course helped me understand how to help developed creativity with the gifted student.
Blanca – DICKINSON ISD (verified owner) –
Great activities to use in the classroom!!
Cynthia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Creative Thinking will improve education for all students. Dr. Juntune does an excellent job presenting the whys, what for, and how to of this subject. One thing that would improve the online course is making the referenced handouts available. None of the links seemed to work.
Joanna – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course which provided great, tangible ideas for increasing creative thinking in the classroom.
Tara – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
needs updating
Susan – CLEVELAND ISD (verified owner) –
This course is helpful for all students not just the gifted.
juan – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Good information
Lisa – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
A lot of useful things to use in classroom.
Disney – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
Great
Jillian – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and helpful.
Giang – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
The course is useful and inspires you to help your students grow with creative thinking.
Ruby – ALPINE ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this course was very helpful.
Javier – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course
Hiram – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Very useful.
candace – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
good
Gonzalo – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Marisol – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative and will be able to apply some of the activities in my classroom.
Ana – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
Shared interesting stuff, especially the SCAMPER technique.
Crystal – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
very good information on how to adapt.
Patricia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent!
Trisha – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very good course
Nora – HUNTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune is great. Her stories help with remembering the different techniques and how they can apply to different students. This course helped with determining diiferent was to help students study or get them to buy into studying.
MARTHA – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
have no specific opinion
Yvette – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course had a lot of great ideas to implement in the classroom.
Carolina – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
The course was very helpful and informative. I learned new techniques that I can use in my classroom.
Karen – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This module really spoke to me. And the activities suggested were outstanding. I will be using many of them in my history classroom.
Anabely – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I believe that this training was very informative and productive. It went into detail
Melissa – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful.
Rebecca – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this model but some parts of this training may be a little difficult to implement in some subjects
Brenda – RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome!
Joanna – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune is very energetic. I especially love how she brings real life examples and situations.
Paulette – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
great ideas
Jennifer – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
very useful and provided lots of ideas to take back to classroom