"Creating a superhero", a minicourse for gifted elementary children, is described. (CL)

Reviews theory and research on the relationship between humor and creativity. Briefly describes two Israeli projects aimed at encouraging humor creativity in adolescents and at teaching teachers to use humor to foster creativity. (FMW)

Project development activities centered on the components of teacher in-service, classroom activities, curriculum materials, parent/community involvement, and student evaluation. After three years of operation, test scores showed increasingly superior performance in creative thinking on the part of the students. (DLS)

A teacher program is described which seeks to increase the user's ability to identify, measure, and stimulate the creative potential of children. The product involves techniques for stimulating the growth of eight particular thinking/feeling processes in children. Information is provided here on the content and purposes of the product as well as…