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    The document outlines 25 ways to develop creativity in students. It suggests basic techniques like questioning assumptions, defining problems creatively, and encouraging idea generation. It recommends allowing time for creative thinking, instructing and assessing creatively, and rewarding creative ideas. It also advises avoiding roadblocks to creativity like discouraging risk-taking and ambiguity. More complex techniques involve teaching responsibility and self-regulation. Role models of creative people can also inspire students, as can exploring different environments and playing to students' strengths. The goal is for teachers and students to grow creatively together over the long term.

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    25 Ways to Develop Creativity

    From Sternberg and Williams

    THE PREREQUISITES
    1. Be a Role Model
    2. Believe in your Students
    BASIC TECHNIQUES
    3. Question Assumptions: “Make questioning a part of your day. It is more important
    for students to learn what questions to ask—and how to ask them– than to learn the
    answers.”
    4. Define and Redefine Problems: “Give your students latitude in making choices to
    help them develop taste and good judgment, both essential elements of creativity.”
    5. Encourage Idea Generation
    6. Cross-Fertilizing Ideas: “Stimulate creativity by helping students to think across
    subjects.”
    TIPS FOR TEACHING
    7. Allow Time for Creative Thinking
    8. Instruct and Assess Creatively
    9. Reward Creative Ideas and Products
    AVOID ROADBLOCKS
    10. Encourage Risk-Taking
    11. Tolerate Ambiguity: Everything does not need to be black or white—grey is good.
    12. Allow Mistakes
    13. Identify and Surmount Obstacles
    ADD COMPLEX TECHNIQUES
    14. Teach Responsibility for both Success and Failures
    15. Promote Self-Regulation (Reflective Time Management)
    16. Delay Gratification
    USE ROLE MODELS
    17. Use Profiles of Creative People
    18. Encourage Creative Collaboration
    19. Imagine Other Viewpoints
    EXPLORE THE ENVIRONMENT
    20. Create an Environmental for Creativity to Flourish
    21. Find Out What Excites Your Kids
    22. Find out What Kinds of Environments are Stimulating
    23. Play to Strengths
    THE LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE
    24. Grow Creatively Together
    25. Talk about Creativity

    No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time.


    It is just that others are behind the time.
    -Martha Graham

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