Description
Collaboration and communication are key components to enhancing creative thinking. Help students practice and develop these skills early on in their learning through encounter lessons. In Creativity x 4 – Encounter Lessons, Carolyn Coil discusses how encounter lessons encourage good listening and stimulate creativity and higher-level thinking.
This course covers:
- An introduction to encounter lessons, including standards, directions, and boundary breakers
- Differentiated extenders for encounter lessons
- How to set the stage for encounter lessons
- A practice activity
- A sample lesson plan format





Tanya – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
informative
Grace – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course allows the student in developing their oral and listening skills as well as becoming more critical thinkers where they can expand their creativity in analyzing information and expressing their ideas.
Maria – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great Course!
Jazmine – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
ernesto – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Yes
Ana – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great Lesson Planning
Olga – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
All of this information is great and it is very good information to learn.
Jessica – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
informative
Clarinda – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Veronica – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful for about how to teach and differentiate my lessons.
Lynda – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This training was great for leading students through a creative storytelling lesson based on content that they have already been working on in class.
ANA – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
It helps the teacher gain another perspective on leading questions.
Sara – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great course to help with planning encounter lessons with all students.
susan – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Very intersting
Rosalinda – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
It is very interesting and can be implemented in elementary as well.
Jeremy – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Its ok
Carlota – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative, contains information that actually can be used in different courses.
Haley – BETHEL-TATE LOCAL (verified owner) –
Great course!
Edith – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course is interesting because it shows step by step to create a lesson where you can have student engaged in many different topics.
Christopher – SPRINGFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Not bad
Araceli – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very educational and fun.
Barbara – SPRINGFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This course was not helpful to me as a math teacher.
Maria – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative.
Yvette – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course provided lesson plan ideas that challenge students.
Rhonda – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
I think this is a wonderful strategy to introduce a new unit of study.
Azucena – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Thank you.
Rosalinda – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Informative
Janie – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Diana – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great Course
Sara – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It was ok.
Maria – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
great course
Samuel – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was helpful and gave good insight into extenders and high level thinking questions.
Rodolfo – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
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Gabriela – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It provides nice ice breakers and interesting ways to frame our lessons.
Graciela – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I really like tha activity because it had a format to follow. It is very intersting to work in a group and come up with all the good ideas.
Brandi – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
I like the idea of getting kids to talk and connections before a unit even starts.
Beverly – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
I would like something that could help me start the lesson alone. I get all hyped up but when I try to start all alone it doesn’t work the same.
Arnoldo – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I probably wouldn’t use it in my class.
Samuel – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and useful.
Nikki – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
I think this is great for classroom teachers, but not really applicable for intervention teachers.