Teaching as a Creative Act, Marquette, Spring 2021

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Course Description

Today’s learners are facing an unpredictable job market. In order to compete in the global economy of the future they will need to know themselves well and be able to innovate. Creativity is a key skill for their success. Creativity is a way of thinking and behaving that is not an innate skill but something that can be fostered and learned through any subject area. In this course participants will develop their own creative processes. They will identify the skills of creativity. They will relate the idea of creativity to their own subject areas and develop strategies for fostering and teaching creativity through the lens of specific content areas.

Course Goals & Objectives

Course Goals:

Participants will develop an awareness of their own creative processes

Participants will identify the skills associated with creativity

Participants will identify problems in their educational settings

Participants will apply a design thinking process to creatively solve problems

Participants will learn to have use techniques to the think more deeply about the subject matter

Course Objectives

1.Identify the student skills associated with creativity

2. Identify strategies for fostering creativity
3. Describe the importance of creativity
4. Design instruction that incorporates creativity
5. Apply the processes of creative problem solving
6. Apply design thinking

7.Apply making thinking of  subject deeper

Required Readings

(n.d.). How to Foster Creativity in the 21st Century Classroom? Retrieved November 26, 2017, from hccttp://www.p21.org/news-events/p21blog/1398-how-to-foster-creativity-in-the-21st-century-classroom

Barseghian, T. (n.d.). Sir Ken Robinson: Fostering Creativity in Education is Not an Option. Retrieved November 26, 2017, from https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Brookhart, S. M. (2013, February). Assessing Creativity. Retrieved November 26, 2017, from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb13/vol70/num05/Assessing-Creativity.a

Ritchhart,Ron/ Church Mark  The Power of Making Thinking Visible

https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/books/9781119626213

Kaufman, S. B. (2013, August 19). The Real Neuroscience of Creativity. Retrieved November 26, 2017, from https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-real-neuroscience-of-creativity/

Pavlov, T. (2016, December 15). Problem Finding Before Problem Solving. Retrieved November 26, 2017, from http://www.schoolsthatcan.org/problem-finding-problem-solving/

Sternberg, R. J. (n.d.). Investment Theory of Creativity. Retrieved November 26, 2017, from http://www.robertjsternberg.com/investment-theory-of-creativity/

(2010, October 14). Retrieved November 26, 2017, from https://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U

(2011, June 13). Retrieved November 26, 2017, from https://youtu.be/dNVJ2eEQ5zk

6-12 Creativity and Innovation Rubric. (n.d.). Retrieved November 26, 2017, from https://www.bie.org/object/document/6_12_creativity_innovation_rubric_ccss_aligned

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Anne Marquette

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Bethany Sprague
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