Teaching Creativity Creatively

Contents:

• Course orientation
• Ten definitions of creativity
• The Creators' Patterns
• Essential terms and definitions
• Three examples of teaching creativity creatively
• A case for teaching students creative attributes

Contents:

• Catalyst to action: problems, needs, challenge, curiosity
• Irrational element(s): dreams, fantasy, etc.
• Generative processes (rational elements)
• Discovery, judgments, and justification
• A model to facilitate creativity in the classroom

Contents:

• The role of cognitive structures
• Proven paths of creative exploration
• Problem solving through creative behavior
• The relationship of intelligence and creativity
• How to think creatively

Contents:

• Create yourself
• You and you - Personal intelligence
• You and them - Social intelligence
• Heaven knows! - Spiritual intelligence
• Body talk - Physical intelligence
• Making sense of your senses
• Count on yourself - Numerical intelligence
• Mind the gap!
• The power of words

Contents:

• The setting
• The problem
• The creative process

Contents:

• What is critical thinking?
• The role of logic in critical thinking
• Phases of decision making
• Critical thinking and objectivity
• The role of transfer
• Inductive/deductive reasoning
• Applying structured knowledge to unstructured problems

Contents:

• Distinct bodies of knowledge and modes of inquiry
• Thinking process across disciplines
• Fields of human beings that make judgments
• Creativity and domain structure
• A case study

Contents:

• Domain criteria, traditional and out-of-the-box thinking
• Conditions for novelty in context
• Effectiveness as a function of usefulness and practicality
• Teacher judgments and assessments
• Tests of creativity - commercial and teacher made
• Criteria for product assessment

Contents:

• The structure of an elegant problem
• Solving real problems through the use of creative attributes
• The impractical to practical continuum
• Creative cooperation and collaboration
• Challenging but achievable problems
• Transforming, restructuring, combining, reorganizing to achieve problem resolution
• Time to reflect and integrate lessons
• Making diverse connections through problem content

Contents:

• Learning environment that promotes risk taking and living with temporary frustrations and failure
• Appropriate meshing of prescribed curriculum and creativity
• Domain impact on a congenial environment
• Accepting creative behavior by parents, administrators, and students
• Provide specific instruction in creative and critical thinking
• Course review and synthesis