Creativity & Instructional Strategies

with Lisa Van Gemert

Who’s in the house?

What is your

superpower?

What is your superpower?

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Why should creativity

have a role in the

classroom?

what we learn with pleasure

we never forget.

-alfred mercer

Humor helps us...

Double-click to enter titleincrease learning speed

improve problem solving

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relieve stress

reduce testanxiety

Like anyone has that

Increase perceptions of teacher credibility.

Still too much?how about these?

6 qualitie

s that reflect fun &

enthusiasm

1. animated facial expressions

2. exuberant energy level

3. vocal variety

4. passion

about the

subject being

taught

5. willingness to take risks

And the most important of all....

just smile!

It is impossible to be

a mathematician without

also being a poet in spirit.

Sophia Kovalevska

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the ability to produce novel & appropriate outcomes to problems, challenges, or opportunities

Define: Creativity

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup. -Jerry

Seinfeld

Call to Adventure!

Creativity takes courage. – Henri Matisse

Fourteen students had 20 pieces of notebook paper among them. Which equation would show you how many sheets each student got?

b. divide 20 students by 14 sheets c. divide 14 sheets by 20 students d. divide 20 sheets by 14 students

a. divide 14 students by 20 sheets

Fourteen students got food poisoning. They had 20 rolls of toilet paper among them. Which equation would show you how many rolls each student got?

a. divide 14 students by 20 rolls b. divide 20 students by 14 rolls c. divide 14 rolls by 20 students d. divide 20 rolls by 14 students

The Fab Four

fluency:

producing a large quantity of responses

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rules: all the same or all differentattributes: shape, number, color, shading

Pass the Word!

flexibilitychanging one's ways of things by producing alternative ideas or categories.

Synectics: Making the familiar strange

a river skydiving

an iron cooking

Teaching is like ________ because _________.

elaboration

add details, change details, make ideas more complex or more interesting

eatcat

originality

producing new ideas - not just lots of ideas - original ideas

100 Artists

scamper

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Bizz Buzz Bopp

= ?????

Wait, what was the question?

BABY BLUEoceansky

infant

APPLE GREENbluetreeyellow

BRICK REDhouseclaypig

DEEP PURPLEplumdepthPrince

426712

27935

9451,00050050

131067

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Contracts

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Response Cards

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Four easy steps to amazing !

playBe therechoose your attitudemake their day

Wait Time 1 & 2

Criteria Cards• Each word

intersects with another

• Correct spelling

• Accurate definitions indicating up or down

• Neatly and clearly done

mini rubrics

Assessing

Translation Invitation

1. The Great Barrier Reef is off of the northwest coast of Australia.

Agree or Disagree:

2. The capitol of Australia is Canberra.3. The Aboriginal name of Ayres Rock is Loolaroo.

4. One time, the Prime Minister of Australia went for a swim and disappeared, never to be found.

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password!

astronautFlorida2011Columbia2

237134159

Live the questions now...

Judge a man by his questions

rather than by his answers.

Voltaire

Bingo!

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516384250

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100

 1.The most useful thing I ever learned at a professional development session was ______ . 2. The biggest challenge I face in my classroom is _.

3. I would love it if I could have a _____ in my room.

4. I love to teach about _________.

5. During the summer I like to ___________.

6. One thing my students would never guess about me is _______.

 1.I have seen something connected to this before in _________. 2. I can explain this in ________ words.

3. Another thing you could do with this is _____.

4. On a scale of 1 – 5, the difficulty of this is a _____.

5. Explain the concept without using the word “xxx.”

6. Rewrite the problem, increasing the difficulty.

What was your favorite thing?

What will you use?

What do you want to know more about?

Thank you so much for the gift of your time.