Offers an awareness strategies checklist that can be used to help free children from previous preconceptions and guide them to notice new elements in the environment. (RB)

When planning social studies units, teachers need to build in opportunities for creativity and honor those students who exhibit it. The characteristics of authentically creative work in social studies are discussed and suggestions for projects that encourage creativity are made. (IS)

A program model for gifted preschool children incorporates a differentiated curriculum into an open classroom environment. The Structure of Intellect model serves as the basis for classroom activities (10 examples of which are provided) which stress creative and productive thinking. (CL)

Findings demonstrated that the Guilford-Mednick conceptualization of original thinking is applicable to preschool as well as to older children. (Author/RH)

All instruction, including social studies, should be concerned with developing both halves of the brain rather than continuing to place emphasis only on those functions which reside in the left cerebral hemisphere. When presented with a social studies problem, students can view it in two ways--logically and intuitively. (RM)

Art education is discussed as a necessary basic skill which develops aesthetic responses fundamental to life experience. The role of art in internalized cognitive mechanisms is illustrated by the "American Freedom Festival," a day of school activities in many arts, developing the "whole" child's resources and sense of discovery. (CM)

Academic competitions have the goal of spurring students to excellence through public recognition of their achievements. Some of the better known international, national, and local academic competitions are described. (Author/MLF)

Proposes a new emphasis on teaching how to think. (FL)

The author gives illustrative examples of the application of creative problem solving to a variety of problems facing educational administrators. Sections address the areas of organization, finance, public relations, professional growth, curriculum, extracurricular activities, and stress management. (SW)

The results of studies regarding intelligence in infancy are reviewed, and are compatible with Sternberg's findings on intelligence in adulthood. It is suggested that a major aspect of intelligence--attitude toward and performance with novel kinds of concepts--is continuous in nature throughout the life span, but requires different measurement…

Contour drawing, the art of drawing an object--in this case hands--without looking at the paper, or lifting pencil or pen from paper, is described. (KC)

The language of thinking includes images, as well as words. Development of literacy requires education of the senses. Different forms of representation such as film, descriptive narrative, drama, and graphic displays of children's works, in addition to the three Rs, should be used to develop varieties of literacy. (Author/MLF)

A journal account of working in the New York poets-in-the-schools program, with some philosophical comments about the teaching of poetry and poetry writing. (RL)