How to Develop Student Creativity

✍ Scribed by Robert J. Sternberg, Wendy M. Williams

• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 59
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this practical guide, Sternberg and Williams share 25 easy-to-implement strategies for developing creativity in yourself, your students, and your colleagues. The strategies include explanations entwined with personal experiences from the authors' own classrooms and research. The authors give a basic explanation of creativity and relate techniques you can use to choose creative environments, expose students to creative role models, and identify and surmount obstacles to creativity. Some of the techniques they explore include questioning assumptions, encouraging idea generation, teaching self-responsibility, and using profiles of creative people. Creativity is as much an attitude toward life as a matter of ability. Use these strategies to discover how to unleash the creative potential within you and your students for more creative and fulfilling lives.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction:
Theory of Creativity......Page 6
The Prerequisites......Page 12
Learning
Basic Techniques......Page 16
Teaching Tips......Page 25
Avoiding Roadblocks......Page 30
Adding Complex
Techniques......Page 37
Using Role Models......Page 43
Exploring the
Environment......Page 48
Viewing the Long-
Term Perspective......Page 53
References......Page 55