Developing Creative Thinking in the Classroom – Building Verbal Fluency

Have you ever struggled to come up with good ideas? Maybe you have spent hours staring at a blank piece of paper hoping that a creative idea will strike you. Dr. Joyce Juntune says that there is an easier way to generate ideas. They key lies in verbal fluency, one of the basic foundations of creativity. When students have good verbal fluency, they can come up with several answers to the same problem. In part six of this nine-part series, “Developing Creative Thinking in the Classroom – Building Verbal Fluency,” Dr. Juntune shares how she discovered and encouraged verbal fluency in her classroom.

In this course you will learn: