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Tong Li; Lawrence E. McCalla – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2020
This design case introduces a design and development process of using magic performance as a method to facilitate students' creative design thinking in user-centered design. Magic performance is used not only as a creativity stimulus for facilitating design flexibility but also as a guiding tool for facilitating the design process. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Creative Thinking, Design, Creativity
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Senechal, Diana – Childhood Education, 2019
Creativity is considered the skill of the future. We must be thoughtful, however, about how we innovate to support creativity, ensuring that we do not lose sight of equally important skills and competencies.
Descriptors: Creativity, Foreign Countries, Creative Thinking, Creative Teaching
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Pendergast, Seth – Music Educators Journal, 2021
Interest in creative music technologies is on the rise among secondary students. Still, some music teachers are unsure how to integrate creative music technologies into their instruction. This article explores one versatile and powerful technology for the music classroom: digital audio workstations (DAWs). First, I discuss the central role of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Creative Teaching, Secondary School Students, Music Teachers
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Gong, Shiqi – English Language Teaching, 2020
This paper first explains the concept of creativity, then reviews the domestic and foreign researches on creativity, and then discusses the importance and basic principles of cultivating creativity of middle school students. Finally, the paper puts forward the ways to cultivate the creativity of middle school students. The purpose of this paper is…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Teaching Methods, Creative Teaching, Educational Quality
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Beghetto, Ronald A. – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2017
How might teachers transform routine tasks into non-routine ones? The purpose of this article is to address this question. The article opens with a discussion of why non-routine problems require creative and original thought. Specifically, I discuss how non-routine problems require students to confront uncertainty and how uncertainty can serve as…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods, Creative Thinking
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Tsai, Kuan Chen – in education, 2015
The purpose of this article is to propose a theoretical framework for creative education, which consists of three dimensions: initiation, operation, and content. I will first review the creativity literature in education, and then go on to demarcate three levels with several components that are necessary to a pedagogical practice for creative…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Development, Psychology, Models
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Shade, Rick; Shade, Patti Garrett – Parenting for High Potential, 2015
Creativity has and always will be at the heart of American culture. It is evidenced in our daily lives thanks to the contributions of society's most revered icons. For decades, creativity has languished in the educational system. Creativity is not the norm in schools, and seems to only survive in classrooms or enrichment programs when highly…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Teaching
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Helfer, Jason A. – Parenting for High Potential, 2015
Historically, music programs in K-12 schools have emphasized performance opportunities for children and young people. Until the release of the 1994 National Standards in Music, targeted instruction in composition was frequently overlooked due to the emphasis on performance as well as the expectations of what a school music program ought to produce…
Descriptors: Musical Composition, Music, Teaching Methods, Music Education
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Intili, Amanda; Pembleton, Matthew; LaJevic, Lisa – Art Education, 2015
Art educators are concerned with exposing their students to contemporary art making practices. They aim to create fresh lessons that expand their understandings of art in today's world while highlighting the importance of imagination. With a personal interest in performance and street art (art forms that have gained popularity in recent years),…
Descriptors: Art Education, Imagination, Lesson Plans, Creative Teaching
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Keller-Mathers, Susan – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2011
Building passion and potential for creative learning in higher education involves deliberately seeking to understand, appreciate, and teach for creativity. Recognizing the urgent need for creativity and problem solving skills, and understanding that instructors must embrace creative learning for themselves first, is central. Creativity cannot be…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Creative Development, Creative Teaching, Creative Thinking
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McLennan, Deanna Marie Pecaski – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2012
Sociodrama is an arts-based, action-oriented tool of individual and collective social exploration and creative problem solving that allows participants to explore and find potential resolutions to issues of concern and conflict in their lives. This article describes how Early Years educators can begin to implement basic sociodrama into their…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Drama, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving
Liu, Eric; Noppe-Brandon, Scott – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
The best corporations know that innovative thinking is the only competitive advantage that cannot be outsourced. The best schools are those that create cultures of imagination. Now in paperback, "Imagination First" introduces a wide-variety of individuals who make a habit of imaginative thinking and creative action, offering a set of universal…
Descriptors: Imagination, Corporations, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Shively, Candace Hackett – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2011
Creativity matters. A shared vocabulary and lens for creativity helps teachers and students know what it means to "be creative" and where to start. J. P. Guilford's FFOE model of divergent thinking from the 1950s offers four dimensions to describe creativity: (1) Fluency; (2) Flexibility; (3) Originality; and (4) Elaboration. FFOE makes time spent…
Descriptors: Creativity, Student Projects, Creative Thinking, Creative Teaching
Rowlett, Joel E. – Principal Leadership, 2011
Great strides in the real world are usually accompanied by failure. Mathematics teachers should accept some failure as their students take risks during mathematical explorations. This is not to imply that students should fail an entire course, but they should have opportunities to take risks that may lead to failure, especially in the area of…
Descriptors: Creativity, Problem Solving, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Sparks, Sarah D. – Education Week, 2011
In the continuing debate about American competitiveness in the global economy, politicians and educators alike have pointed not to students' test scores, but to their creativity and ingenuity, as models for the rest of the world. Teaching creativity has been a hot-button topic this fall, from the National Academy of Education's annual meeting in…
Descriptors: Creativity, Risk, Creative Thinking, Creative Activities
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