In an increasingly complex world, students’ abilities to think and innovate is vital. Join in an exploration of how teachers can effectively teach and assess for creativity using the same framework that underpins critical thinking.

Audience: All levels

Resources:

• The Critical Thinking Consortium (TC²), Investigating Sources, Ministry of Education Arts document, includes section on creativity (pdf)
• Dr. Rex Jung: Creativity and the Brain
• Sharon Bailin: Achieving Extraordinary Ends
• The History Teachers on YouTube: The Black Death
• The Frayer Model, Math example (with templates), Brainsteering, Alternatives, Possibilities, Choices (APC), 123D Sculpt
• Related session: Nurturing Creativity (March 21, 2012)