Creativity, Flexibility, and Entrepreneurship are going to be the keys for students as the move into the 21st century. Yet schools, with their narrow focus on prescribed standards and testing, downplay all of these. Do you really want your students to be creative? Creativity is a process, and it can be taught. The ability to become a creative thinking is within all of your students. Emphasize it, teach it, allow it--and your students will blossom!
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1. The Creative Teen: Sparking, Harnessing, and Directing
Creativity in the Classroom Willy Wood
3. Synthesis is the ability to put parts together to form a
plan that is new to the learner. This level stressesforming new
patterns or structures. Though most often associated with the arts,
this process occurs in all areas of the curriculum. -David
Sousa
4. Assume Universal Creativity
5. Whether you think you can or whether you think you cant,
youre right. -Henry Ford
6. Whether you think your students can or whether you think
your students cant, youre right. -Willy Wood
7. Vertical Thinking is sequential, logical, serious,
exclusive, convergent
8. Lateral Thinking is non-linear, illogical, playful,
inclusive, divergent
9. Pop Quiz! In the following line of letters, cross out six
letters so that the remaining letters, without altering their
sequence, will spell a familiar English word: B S A I N X L E A T N
T E A R S
10. The Explorer
11. The Artist
12. The Judge
13. The Warrior
14. Writing Process
15. Crave the Wave!
16. All Roles are Necessary
17. Timing is Crucial
18. Flexibility, Not Rigidity, Rules
19. The Amazing, Brainless Sea Squirt
20. There is nothing in the head that was not first in the
hand. -Jacob Bronowski
21. The cosmos speaks in patterns. -Heraclitus
22. If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it.
-Heraclitus
23. Try? There is no try. There is only do or not do.
-Yoda
24. Seek the Tsunami
25. Children enter school as question marks and leave as
periods. -Neil Postman
26. The amount a person uses her imagination is inversely
proportional to the amount of punishment she will receive for using
it. -Anonymous
27. Encouraging Expansive Thinking Choice Collaboration What if
How is this like Multiple perspectives Multiple waves over
time
28. Sail the Capital C
29. Learn a Tradition; Then Move Beyond It
30. Pay Attention Over the Long Haul
31. Focus on One Field; Dabble in Others
32. Fostering Capital C Creativity Encourage all teachers to
crave the wave Change grading approach More bigger, longer-term
projects Portfolios Curricular changes: more electives, more
chances to dive deep into a field
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