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=CREATIVITY IN THE CLASSROOM=

Dr. Barry Bachenheimer, Pascack Valley Regional High School District bbachenheimer@pascack.k12.nj.us

Resources

Article (Ed Week) "How Can we Help Students Develop Their Creativity" by Larry Ferlazzo []

Henderson, Jennifer (2009) ASCD, Developing Student Creativity for 21st Century Success []

Article (New York Times) "When Truisms are True" by Kim, Polman, and Sanchez (2/25/12) [|When Truisms Are True]

Article (Fast Company) "Why Humor Makes You More Creative" by Drake Baer (5/9/13) [|Why Humor Makes You More Creative]

Sir Kenneth Robinson "Do Schools Kill Creativity" media type="youtube" key="iG9CE55wbtY?rel=0" height="720" width="960"

Web page: @http://sirkenrobinson.com/skr/

Creativity in the Classroom Articles: (Source: Larry Ferlazzo @ http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/)

Here are my choices for The Best Sources Of Advice On Helping Students Strengthen & Develop Their Creativity:

 [|How To Be Creative] is an excerpt from Mr. Lehrer’s book and appeared in The Wall Street Journal.  [|Thinking “Inside Out” — How Could I Use This In A Lesson?] is a post I wrote, and here’s a follow-up called [|“The Costanza Gambit.”]  [|Developing Students’ Creative Skills for 21st Century Success] is by Jennifer Henderson and is on ASCD’s website.  [|The Big Lesson of a Little Prince: (Re)capture the Creativity of Childhood] is by Maria Konnikova and appeared in Scientific American.  [|The Kaleidoscope Mind: Some Easy Ways to Teach Creativity] appeared in The Atlantic.

 [|A Box? Or a Spaceship? What Makes Kids Creative] is from The Wall Street Journal.

 [|Reclaiming the Imagination] is from The New York Times.  [|Lab Notes #5: Creativity is from Wired].  [|Positive Mood Allows Human Brain to Think More Creatively] is from Science Daily.  [|How to encourage big ideas] is from MIT News. TechCrunch has a [|series of videos] on this topic from author Po Bronson.

 [|What you think you know about fostering creativity is wrong. A look at what really works] is a Newsweek article from Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman.

 [|“The Creativity Crisis”: A Conversation with Nurture Shock Author Ashley Merryman] is from Learning First.  [|Creativity Lessons from Charles Dickens and Steve Jobs] is from The Harvard Business Review.  [|How Geniuses Think] is from The Creativity Post. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"> [|Education and Creativity] is from The Creative Research Journal. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"> [|Research summary – fostering creativity] is from Journey To Excellence. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"> [|How Creative Are You?] is an online test from Newsweek. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are some interesting articles on measuring creativity: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"> [|States Mulling Creativity Indexes for Schools] is from Education Week. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"> [|Measuring Creativity] is from The European Commission. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"> [|Will Measuring Creativity In Schools Help Youth Be Workforce Ready?] is from The Huffington Post.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Can Creativity Be Measured?] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #009bc2; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Interesting Research On Creativity] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Jonah Lehrer, author of the book //<span style="font-family: 'Droid Serif',Times,serif; font-size: 0.9em;">“Imagine: How Creativity Works” // has written a guest piece over at [|my Education Week Teacher column] sharing his suggestions on how his research can be applied in the classroom.