How To Develop Student Creativity

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How To Develop Student Creativity

• By Robert J. Sternberg and Wendy M. Williams

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Note to Professor Hartman

• I was attracted to the article called Practical
  Intelligence for Success in School by Sternberg
  and others, but in my packet it was missing page
  174. I went onto the web in search of the page,
  and found this interesting introductory article
  which I am using instead.

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And

• I hope this is alright.
• I would still like page 174 and would willingly
  do a PPT presentation for Practical
  Intelligence as Ive read the other pages. Do
  you have it and could I get it from you?

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How To Develop Student Creativity

• By Robert J. Sternberg and Wendy M. Williams
• (PPT really begins here)

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Three types of students

• Alice is brilliant but doesnt have a drop of
  creative talent
• Barbara is wonderfully creative but does poorly
  on tests
• Carlos has interesting approaches to problems,
  but doesnt fit into the school environment

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Creative Ideas Are Novel

• Most major works of art and literature are
  rejected many times before being accepted.
• A truly creative idea defies the crowd and its
  interests
• Society encourages intellectual conformity
• Creativity needs to be fostered as an attitude
  toward life as well as an ability

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Creativity The three abilities to balance -

• 1- synthetic ability- making connections that are
  unusual
• 2 - analytic ability- critical judgment to pursue
  the better ideas
• 3 - practical ability- translating ideas into
  accomplishments

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HOW TO DO IT

• BE A ROLE MODEL - let them see you do it
• BUILD SELF EFFICACY - let them see that you
  believe they can do it
• QUESTION ASSUMPTIONS - learn to identify them
  (not easy) and uproot them if they are holding
  your students back

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When and Why

• This kind of work needs to be implemented in
  steps and allowing time for it to take hold
• If we do not seek to engender students creativity
  we are likely demanding their conformity

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Some steps in the process

• Define and redefine problems
• Encourage idea generation
• Encourage the cross-fertilizing of ideas
• Allow time for creative thinking
• Reward creative ideas and products

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How to avoid roadblocks.

• Encourage sensible risks
• Tolerate ambiguity
• Allow mistakes
• Identify and surmount obstacles
• Teach self-responsibility
• Promote self-regulation
• Teach delayed gratification

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And some tools

• Use profiles of creative people
• Encourage creative collaboration
• Imagine other viewpoints

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Source

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