Creativity in the Classroom

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Creativity in the Classroom

• David Georgi, Ph.D.
• California State University

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Why Consider Creativity?

• To motivate students.
• To plan for problem solving
• To develop higher order cognitions
• To practice authentic assessment
• It probably wont happen without planning for it.

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What is Creativity in Student Work?

• Originality
• Flexibility
• Elaboration
• Fluency

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How do you encourage creativity in students?

• Give student permission to take risks.
• Expect the unexpected.
• Allow failure.
• Learn to learn from failure.
• Acknowledge and reward creativity.

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How can teachers be more creative in their
planning and teaching?

• What are you doing currently?
• How can students be encouraged to develop their
  own creativity?

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Some Elements of Creativity

• Breaking set
• Playing being in child ego state
• Allowing an incubation period
• Stimulating the imagination
• Training the irrational
• Integrating male/female parts of self
• Seeing in new ways

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Reflective Imagination

• Elicit an image.
• Reflect on the image.

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Synectics Model Uses Metaphoric Thinking

• Original Task
• Direct Analogy
• Personal Analogy
• Compressed Conflict
• New Analogy
• Revisit Task

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"For to perceive, a beholder must create his own
experience."

• John Dewey

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