Title: Creativity Creative Thinking
1CreativityCreative Thinking Creative
Problem-solving
- 2 Models of Creative Problem Solving
- plus
- The Incubation Model of Teaching
- 13 Additional Creative Qualities
2Creativity is not
- The domain of a few individuals
- Not known to be linked to specific factors or
traits - Exclusive of many individuals
- Shared by all, varies by many factors
- Exclusively world-altering
- Personal vs Cultural creativity
- Importance of distinguishing between these 2
- Need to develop Personal to achieve Cultural
3Creativity is
- Universal
- All people have this capacity, as with
intelligence - Continuous
- Varies by degree, type, as with intelligence
- In Potential (subject to training)
- Identifiable via types of performances
- Performance competencies can be developed
42-Factor Model
- Novelty Unique, distinct, original responses
to environment, experience, circumstances - Usefulness Serves a purpose responds to
perceived need solves identified problem/s
54 Factor Model
- Fluency
- Frequency of response actual total number of
responses to a stimulus - Flexibility
- Frequency of categories of responses actual
total number of types of responses - Originality
- Statistical infrequency of response for a given
individual in a given group at a given time - Elaboration
- Development of responses
- Completion of ideas
- Integration across ideas
- Marketing ideas/alternatives
6Application of Models
- Working in your group, do the following
- Identify a situation in a curriculum (content to
be taught/learned) in which you could apply these
models - Briefly describe the instructional situation
- Who, what, when, why, how long, whats expected
- Plan/state an activity that would develop each
step of the 4 factor model
7The Incubation Model of TeachingGetting Beyond
the Aha!E. P. Torrance H. T. Safter (1990)
- What is the aha?
- Moments of insight intuition revelation
- Moments of wholeness or oneness uniting with
everything - Rational vs Supra-rational view of Creativity
- Non-linear sequence/-ing of creative events
8The Incubation Model of Teaching
- Creative indicators beyond the big 4 factors
13 additional qualities - Highlighting the essence (abstract titles)
- Keeping open (resist premature closure)
- Emotional awareness
- Putting ideas into context
- Combining synthesizing
- Visualize richly, colorfully
- Using fantasy
- Using movement sound
- Unusual visual perspective/s
- Internal visualizations
- Extending/breaking through boundaries
- Using humor
- Getting glimpses of infinity
9The Incubation Model of Teaching3 Additional
Issues
- Problem-finding
- Pervasive impediment Assuming the problem is
known, therefore, focus on finding the solution - Producing Alternatives
- At all levels of problem-solving, increased
fluency supports the processes the more
alternatives, the greater the probability of
creative solution/s - Originality Acceptance of being different
- Adequate time
- Play with ambiguity/uncertainty
- Heightened awareness of importance
- Make legitimate
10The Incubation ModelInformation Processing
Strategies for Creative Teaching Learning
- Stage 1 Heightening Anticipation
- Stage 2 Deepening Expectations
- Stage 3 Keeping it Going
11The Incubation ModelCreative Teaching Learning
- Stage 1 Heightening Anticipation (see p.9)
- Create desire to know
- Heighten anticipation/expectation
- Get attention
- Arouse curiosity
- Tickle imagination
- Give purpose/meaning
12The Incubation ModelCreative Teaching Learning
- Stage 2 Deepening Expectations (see p.10)
- Digging deeper
- Looking twice
- Listening for smells
- Crossing out mistakes
- Cutting holes so see through
- Cutting corners
- Getting in deep water
- Getting out of locked doors
13The Incubation ModelCreative Teaching Learning
- Stage 3 Keeping it Going (see pp.11-12)
- Having a ball
- Singing in ones own key
- Building sand castles
- Plugging in the sun
- Shaking hands with tomorrow
14The Incubation Model of Teaching13 Qualities
- Highlighting the essence
- Retaining sense of importance
- Staying focused
- Discriminate relevant from irrelevant information
15The Incubation Model of Teaching13 Qualities
- Elaboration
- Add details
- Develop a plan
- Implement/sell a solution
16The Incubation Model of Teaching13 Qualities
- Keep Open
- Resistance to premature closure
- Need for use of time
- Practice with ideas in variety of circumstances
w/o time constraints
17The Incubation Model of Teaching13 Qualities
- Emotional Awareness
- Acknowledge role/significance of affective
experience/s - Adds to, not replaces, rational-cognitive
experience/s - Personal insight/s
18The Incubation Model of Teaching13 Qualities
- Putting Ideas into Context
- Meaningful synthesis of ideas experiences
- Personal, individual
- Abstract analysis/synthesis
- Part-part relationships
- Part-whole relationships
- Generalizations across concepts
19The Incubation Model of Teaching13 Qualities
- Combine Synthesize
- Combine types modes of information acquisition,
processing retrieval - Brain laterality Right- vs Left-brained
- Visualize Richly Colorfully
- Alternative perceptions
20The Incubation Model of Teaching13 Qualities
- Using Fantasy
- Future possibilities
- Varying point-of-view
- Feeling comfortable with the unknown
- Unconstrained by reality
21The Incubation Model of Teaching13 Qualities
- Using Movement Sound
- Experience via multiple modalities deepens
concept learning - Kinesthetic auditory experiences Natural
modalities for children ( experienced adults)
22The Incubation Model of Teaching13 Qualities
- Unusual Visual Perspectives
- Ability to see in different ways heightens
experiences of innovation inventiveness - Internal Visualizations
- Seeing the insides of objects, events, people,
experiences can lead to new, deeper insights
seeing multiple perspectives
23The Incubation Model of Teaching13 Qualities
- Extending/breaking through Boundaries
- Confronting the whats given limitation/bias
- Recognizing that new possibilities always exist
- Acknowledging the potential for ambiguity of
the incomplete idea, object, etc, continuing
problem-solving work
24The Incubation Model of Teaching13 Qualities
- Using Enjoying Humor
- Integrates or synthesizes physiological,
psychological social processes - Accepting/understanding perceptual, conceptual
incongruities - Recognizing unusual, unexpected combinations,
surprises
25The Incubation Model of Teaching13 Qualities
- Glimpses of Infinity
- Open-ended environment
- Positive focus on the future
- Actively engaging ones self as part of perceived
future for ideas to transcend the present - Developing anticipation for an open-ended,
multi-possibility future
26The Incubation Model of Teaching
- Creative indicators beyond the big 4 factors
13 additional qualities - Highlighting the essence (abstract titles)
- Keeping open (resist premature closure)
- Emotional awareness
- Putting ideas into context
- Combining synthesizing
- Visualize richly, colorfully
- Using fantasy
- Using movement sound
- Unusual visual perspective/s
- Internal visualizations
- Extending/breaking through boundaries
- Using humor
- Getting glimpses of infinity