Description
Over the last decade creativity and creative thought have been de-emphasized because of a strong focus on standardized testing education. In this 3-hour course, Bob Iseminger discusses the importance of developing creativity and provides strategies for embedding creativity development in classroom lessons and content.
In this course, you will receive:
- Definitions and characteristics of creative thinking
- An inventory of students’ creative processes
- An overview of the four basic creative thinking skills
- Practical strategies for building fluency, flexibility and elaboration
Marcela – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I truly enjoyed this session. The ideas and examples were simple enough to use with my students and they are at a level where I know my students will gain a deeper understanding of the lesson.
Yolanda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
excellent
Shawn – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
This was a really great course and very applicable in any classroom or subject area.
JAMIE – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
This class was very insightful and provided several new ways to engage students.
Melissa – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I got a lot of take aways from this course.
Deyanira – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great several example of activities.
Gloria – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
Lots of information.
dora – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Very good strategies
Lynda – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
I especially like the activities to encourage brainstorming. Thank you for the tips!
Monica – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I loved the ideas and activities provided. Great examples!!
Lina – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful with useful ideas that can be used in the classroom. Giving example of how to “elaborate” with students was very engaging.
Megan – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
This course had great examples and activity ideas to use I the classroom among many levels
Alicia – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Easy to follow along
Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative course.
Priscilla – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course because it allows you to discover and reflect the importance of creativity in the classroom and the reason why we need flexible and fluent thinking as well.
Amy – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
Very good ideas that are easy to incorporate into classroom regardless of age.
Jill – BLANCHESTER LOCAL (verified owner) –
This was a well thought out course. It took complicated issues and put them in simple language.
Eric – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Great information on how the pieces of learning interact together for students.
Brittany – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
I would recommend others to take this course.
Angela – PIQUA CITY (verified owner) –
I really like how this course taught me a lot of strategies I can use in my own classroom. I left this course having more tools in my tool belt! It was a good use of my time on this subject matter.
Thomas – SPRINGFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Flexibility, Elaboration, Originality, and Fluency is discussed in detail with examples and activities for GT students and really all students.
michelle – CARLISLE LOCAL (verified owner) –
Lots of helpful strategies.
Sonja – BEXLEY CITY (verified owner) –
I thought the strategies given in this course were practical and helpful. I definitely recommend this to all educators regardless of grade level – very adaptive.
Casey – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Felt very technical – however, there were good examples thrown in.
Jason – JEFFERSON AREA LOCAL (verified owner) –
Gives many different ideas and strategies and how to put them to use.
Raul – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
Love the scamper activities. Would like to see its application to science.
Adelaida G. – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Yes, I would.
Lorena – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas and interesting books.
Janette – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
Excellent
Gloria – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
I love the examples provided. Great things to try with the students.
Melissa – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Informative
Veronica – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Educational and strategies for students to be better critical thinkers.
Matthew – FORT STOCKTON ISD (verified owner) –
Love the activities that be used to help students growth.
Esmeralda – ALVARADO ISD (verified owner) –
It allowed me to create high level critical thinking for GT students.
Rosaura – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course.
Patricia – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Loved all the examples. Can’t wait to bring them back to the classroom
Laura – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
There a several good ideas in this course.
Chad – NEW BREMEN LOCAL (verified owner) –
There is a lot of very useful information. I particularly like that actual examples of the techniques are used throughout the presentation.
Vianca – Pilot (verified owner) –
great
Staci – HALLETTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Interested
Richard – CHISUM ISD (verified owner) –
There were some good strategies for occasional use in the classroom. Most geared toward lower grade levels. The concepts of thinking outside the box are obviously needed in all levels and can be incorporated in various ways. Overall I think it was a fairly decent attempt at demonstrating this.
Luis – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
good course
Susan – EANES ISD (verified owner) –
I felt this course did an excellent job in explaining ways to add more fluency, flexibility and elaboration into daily lessons to infuse creativity and creative thinking for our students.
Carie – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Very dry and passive. Ironically, since this was a course on teaching creatively. Old outdated practices in play.