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Peer reviewedMalone, Charlotte – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1975
Presented are creative teaching ideas for developing gifted students' skills in locating, analyzing and evaluating information. (LH)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Divergent Thinking, Exceptional Child Education, Gifted
Peer reviewedLabinowich, Ed – Science and Children, 1973
Discusses the use of divergent questioning in the science classroom. This form of questioning is open-ended and encourages children to contribute to class discussion with a variety of responses. (JR)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity, Divergent Thinking, Elementary School Science
Download full textBrophy, Jere E.; Choquette, James J. – 1973
This study examined the contention that teacher instruction in the "correct use" of classroom equipment, as in the Montessori training method, inhibits a child's ability to generate other uses for that same equipment. Subjects were 31 matched pairs of four- and five-year-olds from two Montessori preschools and two traditional nursery…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity Tests, Divergent Thinking, Early Childhood Education
Peer reviewedJones, Joan C. – College Student Journal, 1973
Measures to promote divergent thinking or creativity in children are discussed; teachers must understand the creative process and develop corresponding teaching methods and curriculum. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Development, Creative Development, Curriculum Development, Divergent Thinking
Ycas, Martynas A.; Pascal, Charles E. – Improving Human Performance, 1974
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, College Students, Creative Development, Creative Thinking
Birckbichler, Diane W. – 1982
Factors that are closely related to creative behavior are also intimately connected with language learning and the ability to communicate in languages other than one's own. These factors are fluency; flexibility; elaboration; originality; sensitivity to problems; and the ability to synthesize and analyze, to reorganize an idea, to handle…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Convergent Thinking, Creative Development
Shaklee, Beverly D.; Amos, Neil G. – 1985
The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of using an adapted version of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) to increase problem solving activities of kindergarten students, and to determine the practical significance of using CPS as a method for increasing problem solving skills of kindergarten students. Data were collected from…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Curriculum Development, Divergent Thinking
Honig, Alice Sterling – 2000
This paper discusses creativity in young children and what teachers can do to support and promote it. Topics addressed in the paper include: (1) teacher interest in promoting creativity; (2) defining creativity; (3) creativity in the socioemotional domain; (4) the relationship between creativity and empathy for others; (4) bibliotherapy; (5)…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Activities, Creative Art, Creative Development
Cropley, A. J. – 1968
The relationship between creativity and intelligence is discussed; and the position that intellect is not synonymous with the ability to respond in the usual logical way to a standard test item is developed. This logical (convergent) way of thinking, measured by IQ tests, is contrasted with the creative (divergent) way of thinking, measured by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Convergent Thinking
Smith, Rodney P., Jr. – 1970
Following the establishment of working definitions of "creativity" and "English," Chapter 1 of this state-of-the-art paper surveys research into the nature of creativity, points out the need to establish criteria for creativity, and discusses the relation of creativity to English. Chapter 2 considers the classroom and the teacher as elements of a…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Development, Creative Dramatics, Creative Writing
Silverman, Linda Kreger, Ed. – Understanding Our Gifted, 1991
This document consists of six issues of a newsletter subtitled "Dedicated to Helping Gifted Children Reach their Full Potential." These issues focus on personality types, program administration, creativity, counseling, the arts, and cultural diversity. Feature articles have the following titles and authors: "A World of Difference: Children and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Art, Child Rearing, Counseling Techniques
