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!
Juan – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This course has great ideas that can be used in the classroom.
Beatriz – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Jessica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful course, very informative!
Joseph – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Creative thinking is the most valuable tool that we can help a student develop and this courses really was useful in describing how to accomplish this.
Jordyn – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful in giving applicable strategies for the classroom.
Rashad – Brazosport ISD (verified owner) –
This course allows for individualized pacing! Great differentiation.
Nancy – Brazosport ISD (verified owner) –
There is a lot of practical, helpful information in this course.
Patricia – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Great information.
Sheryl – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
These are great teaching techniques for all students
LaDonna – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Helpful
Nora – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Extremely informative and useful.
Araceli – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Felipe – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
very insightful. Like it a lot.
Staci – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
This professional development had ideas that I could take back to school and implement immediately.
Larisel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This is was very interesting.
Joseph – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was actually very useful and offered many strategies you can implement immediately.
Nhat – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I love it! Dr. Juntune has so many great ideas and her training is always so insightful.
Kerri – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I like the classroom examples for how to use the various creative thinking strategies.
Sarah – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course that challenged me to change up the way I am teaching as well as how I am expecting students to demonstrate learning.
Robert – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Dr. Juntune did an excellent job explaining Developing Creative Thinking in the Classroom.
CRISTI – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
very useful and informative
Esmeralda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative, great strategies to use in the classroom.
Linda – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It was very helpful and offered so many neat activities.
Theresa – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of practical ideas I can put to use in my classroom with GT, Mainstream, ESL, and SPED students.
Winston – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
There are so many strategies here that can be used in several subject areas. I love the actual acting out of the activities as this give me a better understand of how to use the stragegies.
Elia – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Anita – BURNET CISD (verified owner) –
There is so much information! The energy in the presentation keeps you focused and ready for more!
Janet – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great training
Samuel – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Great.
Joselyn – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Abby – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
great information
Mercedes – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Krystal – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Heather – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
This was one of the best modules. It gave me a lot of different ideas I can use across different levels of students.
Marisa – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Great insight from somebody that has an immense amount of experience igniting creativity and elaboration.
Erica – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I love all the strategies related to creativity that I can and definitely plan to implement this coming fall.
Mihaela – MARBLE FALLS ISD (verified owner) –
Well done with a wealth of resources!
Nora – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This was an awesome course that went into depth on how to use creativity in your classroom. I will definitely use these ideas in my classroom.
Stephanie – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
What an insightful course. Makes me look at creative thinking in a much different light.
Kayla – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Everlinda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great traiing
Oscar – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
It’s a good course to get GT students to do creative thinking. At the same time it helps other students develop thinking skills.
Jase – MARBLE FALLS ISD (verified owner) –
It is more geared toward elementary education.
Elinor – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Mostly directed towards elementary though there were some good ideas for middle school.
Kati – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Very useful information and resources to use in the classroom.
Lucy – Private Pay (verified owner) –
A great course!
Roanna – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
It was helpful on multiple age levels.
Cristina – NORTH EAST ISD (verified owner) –
I could not find an option for closed captioning or a written transcript of the audio. If I would change anything about the course, the inclusion of a captions/transcripts would help a lot.
Rachel – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great ideas presented, I would watch this again!
Amy – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for classroom creative thinking and the why behind the importance of creative thinking.