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Standardized tests got you down? Need a dose of inspiration? With strategies from creativity experts, this presentation is for teachers looking for ideas to cultivate creativity in their classrooms.
Standardized tests got you down? Need a dose of inspiration? With strategies from creativity experts, this presentation is for teachers looking for ideas to cultivate creativity in their classrooms.
A simple reframing of the
questions we ask will help our kids to do this. <ul><li>Change your questions so that they solicit more than one answer. </li></ul>
A simple reframing of the
questions we ask will help our kids to do this. <ul><li>Change your questions so that they solicit more than one answer. </li></ul><ul><li>Change the wording of your questions. Simply replacing one word with a synonym can lead thinking in different directions. </li></ul>
Tips for practicing creativity yourself:
<ul><li>Take up a creative hobby </li></ul><ul><li>Name your lessons </li></ul><ul><li>Make your lessons part of a story </li></ul><ul><li>Incorporate design techniques into your slideshows </li></ul><ul><li>Keep an idea log </li></ul>
So how does a teacher
inspire creativity without giving up valuable time preparing for the test?
Strategy #1 Adapt your test
prep lessons so that they have students doing more creating and less paper/pencil work. More Less