Creativity






  • Creative Thinkers are:
    • independent and/or flexible thinker 
    • exhibits original thinking in oral and/or written expression 
    • generates many ideas to solve a given problem 
    • possesses a keen sense of humor 
    • creates and invents 
    • intrigued by creative tasks 
    • improvises and sees unique possibilities 
    • risk taker 
    • resists conformity
    Universal Activities (Tier 1):
    • Improvisation
    • Creative Activities
    • Anological thinking
    • Study creative people
    • Divergent and convergent thinking (Williams Model)
    • Creative thinking skills (originality, fluency, flexibilty and elaboration
    • Research inventors, scientists, architects, designers or artists of personal interest
    Selected Level (Tier 2):
    • Competitions
    • Future Problem Solving
    • Destination ImaginNation
    • Odyessy of the Mind
    • Strategies to develop new ideas
      • Build a Prezi 
      • Ideas matter! Have your students develop a prezi to organize, present and share ideas.
      • ToonDoo 
      • The world's fastest way to build a cartoon. Unique way to make a different kind of presentation.
    • Open-ended learning experiences
    • Group creatively gifted on projects
    • Study of creative attitutde and personality traits
    • Mentor for individual creative interest
    • Participate in meaningful decision making
    • Creative thinking techniques to extent intuition
    • Small group projects/presentations
      • Build a Prezi Ideas matter! Have your students develop a prezi to organize, present and share ideas. Create an interactive presentation.
      • Timetoast.com - Create an online Timeline
      • LucidChart.com -Create online diagrams
      • Animoto.com - Create an online slideshow
      • ToonDoo The world's fastest way to build a cartoon. Unique way to make a different kind of presentation.

    Targeted Level (Tier 3):

    • Innovation
    • Internship
    • Creativity institutes
    • Creative production
    • Copyright, patent, publish original work