Kristy Callaway

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Kristy Callaway
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How about CREATIVITY?
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What is your definition?

• Write it as a metaphor.
• Example Creativity is like
• a breath of fresh air
• the sounds of a lock opening
• a series of green lights and a car with no
  breaks
• water flowing downhill
• Turn to your neighbor and share your metaphor.

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The Term Creativity
The root of the words create and creativity
comes from Latin creatus and creare, meaning to
make or produce, or literally, to grow. The
word also comes from the Old French base kerre,
and the Latin crescere and creber. The Roman
goddess of the earth, Ceres, is an example, as is
the Italian corn goddess, Cereris. Creativity as
a word has its roots in the earth. Other words
with these same roots are cereal, crescent,
creature, concrete, crescendo, decrease,
increase, and recruit. Creativity is a new word
that appears in the Oxford English Dictionary in
1971.
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Who is saying what about creativity?Google it!

• THE EXPERTS
• Psychometric
• Developmental
• Social
• Cognitive
• Education
• Humanistic

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Making a Case for Creativity
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Who is Daniel Pink?
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A Whole New Mindby Daniel Pink

• Left Hemisphere
• Controls right side of body
• Is sequential
• Specializes in text
• Handles what is said
• Analyzes details

• Right Hemisphere
• Controls left side of body
• Is simultaneous
• Specializes in context
• Focuses on how it is said
• Synthesizes the big picture

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3 Forces are pushing us to favor R-directed
thinking
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• Abundance has satisfied (even over satisfied) the
  material needs of millions-increasing
  significance of beauty and emotion and
  individuals need to find meaning

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• Asia is performing many L-directed white collar
  work at much lower cost forcing knowledge workers
  in advanced countries to master abilities that
  cant be shipped overseas.

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• Automation is affecting white collar workers in
  the same way it did for blue collar workers in
  the last generation. L-directed professionals
  must seek aptitudes that computers are unable to
  do better, faster or cheaper.

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MBA vs. MFA
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High Concept

• The ability to create artistic and emotional
  beauty, to detect patterns and opportunities, to
  craft satisfying narrative, and to combine
  seemingly unrelated ideas into a novel invention

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High Touch

• Involves the ability to empathize, to understand
  the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy
  in ones self and to elicit it in others, and to
  stretch beyond the quotidian, in pursuit of
  purpose and meaning

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IQ EQ
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Money Meaning
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The Six Senses
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Design

• Not just function but also design

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Story

• Not just argument but also story

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Symphony

• Not just focus but also symphony

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Empathy

• Not just logic but also empathy

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Play

• Not just seriousness but also play

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Meaning

• Not just accumulation but also meaning

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Use the Six Senses all at once!

• SCAMPER this object!
• S-Substitute
• C-Combine
• A-Adapt
• M-Magnify/Minify
• P-Put to other uses
• E-Eliminate
• R-Reverse/Rearrange

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Characteristics Formulated to Describe The
Creative Teacherby E. Paul Torrance

• Willing to take a risk
• Unwilling to accept anything on mere say-so
• Receptive to the ideas of others
• Independent in judgment
• Curious
• Desire to excel
• Attracted to the mysterious

• Willing to attempt difficult jobs
• Always baffled by something
• Accepting of apparent disorder
• Adventurous
• Possessed by deep and conscientious convictions

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Characteristics Formulated to Describe The
Creative Teacherby E. Paul Torrance

• Seldom bored
• Not hostile nor negativistic
• Persistent
• Unconcerned about power
• Sensitive to feelings of others

• Self starters
• Energetic
• Sensitive to beauty
• Spirited in disagreement
• Constructive in criticism
• Possessive of a sense of humor

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How can teachers nurture student creativity?

• Help children find and develop their Creativity
  Intersection-the area where their talents, skills
  and interests overlap.

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Intrinsic Motivation Principal of Creativity

• Occurs when people feel motivated primarily by
  the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction, and
  challenge of the work itself-and not by external
  pressures.

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Intrinsic Motivation has 4 main aspects

• Love (even obsession)
• Dedication
• Combination of Work Play
• Concentration of the Activity Itself

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How can teachers nurture student creativity?

• Give both guidance and autonomy use learning
  activities that are unstructured within structure

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I have no special gift, I am only passionately
curious.

• Albert Einstein

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Challenge yourself,be curious!

• Thank you!
• Kristy Callaway