1. Getting Creative and
Thinking Critically: A Guide
for Implementation

2. It takes critical thinking
in order to be creative
Developing Creativity
Developing Critical Thinking

3. Developing Creativity in Your
Students
 Modeling
 Questioning
 Allowing Opportunities
 Encouraging Ideas
 Building Self-Efficacy

4. Modeling / Questioning
Modeling Questioning
Be sure to show Questions generate
students what you ideas! Use them to
expect. When they spark creative flames!
see your creative
process they learn
theirs!!

5. Allowing Opportunities /
Encouraging Ideas
Allowing Opportunities Encouraging Ideas
Allow students Encourage your
opportunities to be students to be
creative! creative in their
thinking

6. Building Self-Efficacy
Sometimes teachers unintentionally limit
what students can do by sending
messages that express or imply limits on
students' potential accomplishments. Let
your students know that they possess the
ability to meet all of life's challenges—their
job is to decide how hard they will work to
meet the challenges.

7. Developing Critical Thinking
 Questioning
 Discussion
 Debate
 Cooperative Learning
 Case Studies

8. Questioning / Discussion
Questioning Discussion
Questions should move Teacher lead discussions
from the lower levels of that feature higher order
Bloom’s Taxonomy to thinking questions will
higher order thinking develop critical thinking
questions skills. Depending on
comfort level these
discussions may be
student lead.

9. Debate / Cooperative Learning
Debate Cooperative Learning
Structured debates on Cooperative learning
issues will cause opportunities that
students to think feature meaningful
activities foster
students critical
thinking development

10. Case Studies
The teacher presents a case (or story) to
the class without a conclusion. Using
prepared questions, the teacher then
leads students through a discussion,
allowing students to construct a
conclusion for the case.