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Holbrook, Robert L., Jr.; Comer, Debra R. – Management Teaching Review, 2017
Creativity is more important than ever in today's knowledge-based economy. Although many students doubt their own creativity, very few exercises are designed to help them access this ability. We believe that self-expression and self-reflection are important for understanding personal creative ability. Jung introduced the mandala to promote these…
Descriptors: Creativity, Self Expression, Art Activities, Psychological Patterns
Knight, Jim – National Professional Resources, Inc., 2013
The key to improving student achievement isn't more teacher time--it's more teacher impact. But how do you decide which instructional practices will deliver the most bang for your buck? In this handbook, written for teachers but suitable for use by principals and instructional coaches, best-selling author Jim Knight presents the high-leverage…
Descriptors: Faculty Handbooks, Academic Achievement, Educational Strategies, Educational Planning
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Sexton, Kathryn – OAH Magazine of History, 1991
Offers techniques to make book reports a more meaningful experience for students. Suggests guidelines for book selections and for what the students should look for in their reading. Lists alternatives to traditional book reports that allow an evaluative approach to reading and provide an opportunity for creativity and critical thought. (DK)
Descriptors: Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluative Thinking, History Instruction
Ediger, Marlow – 1994
Pupils need to express themselves in creative processes and products in the language arts curriculum. Too frequently, teachers require behavior which involves conformity on the part of learners. Specific objectives many times delimit pupils' opportunities to express original ideas that come from within the involved learners. Many activities can…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Creativity, Elementary Education
Danis, M. Francine – CEA Forum, 1992
Argues that literature classes will grow more interesting and more effective if educators coordinate two kinds of emphases: allowing for discovery and moving toward productivity. Offers four principles for developing assignments: respect the process; nourish the participants; aim for a variety of products; and reflect together on process,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Higher Education, Reader Response, Teacher Student Relationship
Notes Plus, 1983
Teaching suggestions and questions on which to build a class discussion are presented regarding concrete poetry. An example of a poem about a bird's feather in which the words are arranged in the shape of a feather is included and is intended as a student handout. In addition to suggestions for student assignments, five sources of concrete poetry…
Descriptors: Assignments, Creativity, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Pictorial Stimuli
Yoder, Sharon Burrowes – 1988
In traditional programming courses assignments usually consist of problems that are somewhat closed in nature. That is, students are usually given a rigidly defined problem statement and are provided with a set of data that they are to use to test their program to produce a unique result. While this approach makes evaluation easy, it discourages…
Descriptors: Assignments, Creativity, Discovery Learning, Evaluation Criteria
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Sanzenbacher, Richard – Exercise Exchange, 2000
Describes two assignments that help students realize the dialectic between parts (how one part affects the understanding of all other parts) by having students create their own photographs and physical structures, combine the parts in various way, and consider (in their written papers) the difference it makes. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creativity, English Instruction, Higher Education
Magee, Bronagh E. – 1993
Use of group story writing in second language classes is discussed, and specific instructional techniques are outlined. In this activity, students sit in a circle and each begins to write a story. The story beginning is passed to the next student, who adds a portion and passes the story on. This pattern continues until stories are completed and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Creativity
Iovino, Linda – 1991
In a high school writing workshop, students frequently would go through multiple essay drafts and conferences with the teacher and fellow students before realizing that their theses were incorrect. A teacher devised the "lexivision" to address this problem. Students used Venn diagrams, graphs, or flow charts to represent concepts in the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Graphs