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!
Nelda – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
great class
Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course.
Iris – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
It gave good ideas to incorporate in the classroom.
Alicia – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
it is a bit too long
Lucinda – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Carolina – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Very well organized
Veronica – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
About 30% is relevant to my school
Caroline – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Wasn’t too many questions and the power points were great
Nicole – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
These techniques are amazing!
Casey – EANES ISD (verified owner) –
While I did gain some useful insights and ideas for the high school level, much of this six hour course felt geared to younger students. The example activities were very elementary, and while I could use the general strategies in some ways with older students, I would have appreciated more advanced concepts being modeled with these activities.
Abigail – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
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Amanda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I truly enjoyed this course and took away a lot of useful tools I will definitely be implementing in my classroom.
Karla – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Its great for elementary teachers that have multiple subjects and have to teach many different ways.
Shelby – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
While there were many great ideas to use in the classroom, it was difficult for me to think of ways that some of these strategies would be applicable or realistic to use in a secondary math setting.
Gabrielle – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I found some things helpful, but found the course longer than necessary.
Mirssa – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very informative!
Samantha – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful in introducing creative thinking in the classroom and offered great ideas that I want to implement as a teacher.
Diana – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I loved this training and the hands-on activities that were provided for us to work on.
Alejandra – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed it!
Rosa – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
It was a great course, it gave me several ideas that will really work in the classroom.
Maritza – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I love learning from Dr. Juntune, she has a way of making the material seem easy and fun for the classroom.
Kimberly – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
I loved this course and learned many things to use in the classroom.
McKayla – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
It was interactive and easy to follow along.
Noemi – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Awesome – food for the brain.
Edith – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Norma – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed taking this course. Even though I have been teaching for a long while, this refresher has given me a new insight on teaching my children.
Adriana – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and applicable to all grade levels.
Maureen – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
The information and activities presented in this course was useful and insightful.
Sophia – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful on how to challenge students with high and unique minds.
Sarah – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
It had some helpful ideas to implement in the classroom.
Alexandra – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
I loved this course. Dr. Juntune is extremely captivating when she speaks and provides SO MANY awesome ideas to really help your kiddos dive into creative thinking. I usually dread online courses but this one was wonderful!
Katie – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course – I received practical tools with which I can implement creative thinking strategies in my own classroom.
Leticia – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was enlightening. It definitely makes you think out of the box.
Ilse – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.
Gloria – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the course, however, its was unfortunate that I was unable to download any of the activities that were mention in the videos .
Gabriela – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Helpful and important.
Kelly – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
This course was very eye-opening and showed me the different ways I can implement new ideas in my classroom.
James – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very thought provoking in terms of creating opportunities for students to develop creative thinking.
Courtney – LA VEGA ISD (verified owner) –
I loved all the ideas she had. I learned so much. I learned I need to work on my creative thinking.
Brittany – COLLEGE STATION ISD (verified owner) –
Required course
Alden – VIDOR ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course.
Marcela – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
It is informative.
Erin – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting insights. Sometimes hard to follow main idea.
Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I loved many of the ideas that Dr. Juntune gave us for creative thinking.
Emma – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting, and I learned and refreshed my memory on ways to expand my lessons.
Cynthia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Useful information that can be implemented in the classroom.
Melissa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
its a good course
Harem – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Too much time spent on personal experience that is not always relatable to me.
Liza – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I feel that this course had a lot of useful information that can be used in the classroom.
Lisa – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of good strategies and resources.