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!
Nallely – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
George – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
The course was very informative with many excellent ideas.
Aileen – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Intresting and informative
Kim – MIDLAND ISD (verified owner) –
This had lots of great tools for all students to benefit from!
ANNA – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Informative
Pam – ORANGEFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
it’s too long
Philip – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Methods can be used immediately
Tori – SINTON ISD (verified owner) –
it was helpful with ideas to implement into my teaching and classroom
Kyle – RIDGEWOOD LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course allows you to understand how to create and incorporate activities that promote students’ creativity such as flexibility, fluency, common and unusual inferences, and elaboration activities.
M – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
The course was informative and provided easily applicable strategies.
Ryan – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Mandatory for work. Good UI and works well overall.
Dalia – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and well paced.
Nadia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great training! Very useful. The hand out material should be sent by email or available once you register to the training.
Roberto – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
It showcases new and creative strategies to use in the classroom
Osvaldo – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative course. Full of useful activities for GT and NON-GT settings. Getting tons of ideas for my classroom next year.
Sarah – FORT BEND ISD (verified owner) –
This course was informational and gave lots of great techniques you can implement easily into your instruction.
Alma – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
It was a very useful training.
CLAUDIA M – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It’s relatable and can be implemented into our lessons.
Zaira – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
its good, it’d be better if i could read the information. much more straightforward and to the point.
Laura – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This module helped me understand how to help student that are gifted and talented fully engage their knowledge on another level. I enjoyed learning about different things I can adopt in my classroom in the near future.
Martina – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
All was covered.
Selena – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It’s ok.
Karly – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this course was engaging and very informational.
allison – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Extremely useful tools and strategies
Alexander – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was a very interesting insight into how I can improve my differentiation for gifted students.
Amy – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Real world applications
Myrioh – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
The course is very interactive.
Amanda – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This was insightful, and gave me a toolkit of strategies for my class.
Stephanie – BEAVERCREEK CITY (verified owner) –
This course was great! I am taking a lot of new ideas back to my 5th grade classroom that will help my students become more creative thinkers. I can’t wait to use these skills and activities and watch my students grow!
Amanda – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
The course gave me great ideas to enhance my students’ learning.
Sarah – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
The information is useful and applicable to my course.
Reyes – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
The course was insightful and had good strategies.
Sarah – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Creative thinking, 10 minute bulletin boards, give them ways to share and elaborate their thinking
Paulo – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Its a great course with wonderful insight and neat techniques that I can use in the classroom to help the students open their minds to creativity.
Celita – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Its very useful for implementing instructional strategies to efficiently improve the outcome in academic performance.
Noah – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Interesting concepts and ideas, challenges you to improve your thinking and stratagies in the classroom.
Mary – PARMA CITY (verified owner) –
Learned a lot of strategies that I can use in all areas
Anita – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Some elements were helpful. The course was a little long.
Tiffany – MIAMI TRACE LOCAL (verified owner) –
The course was informative.
Amanda – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was well done. It provided many examples and hands on activities as each section was explained so that way it aligned with what was being discussed.
Lizbeth – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very interesting and helped me learn something new. I am already considering how I can apply these activities in my classroom to promote critical and deep thinking amongst my GT students as well as my other students.
Kaila – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I really liked all the different strategies that I learned about and truly feel like they can be implemented in the classroom.
Flora – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I find many of the resources in this module helpful and applicable in teaching.
Bryan – MIDLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I appreciate its effectiveness in enhancing creative writing and critical thinking among students, while recognizing room for improvement in terms of adaptability across diverse educational settings and balancing creativity with fundamentals.
Patricia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
5 stars
Barbara – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course has useful information and strategies that can be used in your classroom.
Laura – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
It was a creative different course with lots of ideas to implement in the classroom.
Maria – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
The presenter is very knowledgeable in the content and the activities are good to use in the classroom.
Emma – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Gives a lot of great ideas to get students thinking outside the box.
Gilbert – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It was great training.