What is “Creativity”?
One definition is: What do I do when I confront a problem for which I have no learned solution?
Creativity is not only the arts. Successful people in all disciplines use creative thinking.
The creative thinking strategies are:
Fluency—How many ideas can you make about one topic?
Flexibility—Can you change your original idea to make a new idea?
Elaboration—How many details can you add to your idea?
Originality—Is your idea new and different?
Creative Problem-Solving
One of the instructional strategies used in TAG across all grade levels is “Creative Problem-Solving”. The steps for this process are:
During each step, students are encouraged to follow the “Rules of Brainstorming”: record all ideas, wild and crazy ideas are okay, go for quantity, and piggybacking on another idea is good. At each step, students use both divergent (make lots) and convergent (choose one) thinking.
Skills
asking insightful questions
brainstorming possible solutions
evaluating solutions
creating many ideas
elaborating on ideas
One definition is: What do I do when I confront a problem for which I have no learned solution?
Creativity is not only the arts. Successful people in all disciplines use creative thinking.
The creative thinking strategies are:
Fluency—How many ideas can you make about one topic?
Flexibility—Can you change your original idea to make a new idea?
Elaboration—How many details can you add to your idea?
Originality—Is your idea new and different?
Creative Problem-Solving
One of the instructional strategies used in TAG across all grade levels is “Creative Problem-Solving”. The steps for this process are:
- Fact Finding---Analyzing what is known
- Problem-Finding---Looking at possible problems from several viewpoints
- Idea-Finding---Generating many possible solutions
- Solution-Finding---Choosing alternatives with the greatest potential for solving the problem
- Acceptance-Finding---Developing a plan of action
During each step, students are encouraged to follow the “Rules of Brainstorming”: record all ideas, wild and crazy ideas are okay, go for quantity, and piggybacking on another idea is good. At each step, students use both divergent (make lots) and convergent (choose one) thinking.
Skills
asking insightful questions
brainstorming possible solutions
evaluating solutions
creating many ideas
elaborating on ideas
