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CREATIVE Thinking Skills. CREATIVITY. Looks like… Sounds like... Feels like… Thinks like…. DEFINITION OF CREATIVITY. Creativity involves: Breaking away from traditional patterns of thought. Reflective thought. Deferring judgment.
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CREATIVITY • Looks like… • Sounds like... • Feels like… • Thinks like…
DEFINITION OF CREATIVITY • Creativity involves: • Breaking away from traditional patterns of thought. • Reflective thought. • Deferring judgment. • Using Bloom’s analysis, evaluation and synthesis to generate new knowledge and different solutions.
CHARACTERISTICS OF CREATIVE INDIVIDUALS • Memory for facts • Independent. • Flexible. • Flexible. • Reflective. • Many ideas. • Complexity of thought. • Persistent. • Memory for details. • Curious. • Imaginative. • Curious. • Open to ideas. • Fluency of thought. • Reflective.
BRAINSTORMING • Brainstorm possible barriers to the development of creativity.
BARRIERS TO CREATIVITY • Cultural: traditions often rely on conformity. • Emotional: fears of making a mistake; seeming foolish; fear of the unknown; reluctance to play. • Perceptual: the inability to break away from patterns so can’t see the finer details’ overvaluing the real world. • Environmental: classrooms that fail to stimulate or challenge; lack of resources, no time to “play”, or experiment.