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What is the relationship of creativity and giftedness?

What is the relationship of creativity and giftedness?. What is Giftedness?.

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What is the relationship of creativity and giftedness?

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  1. What is the relationship of creativity and giftedness?

  2. What is Giftedness? Gifted individuals are those who demonstrate outstanding levels of aptitude (defined as an exceptional ability to reason and learn) or competence (documented performance or achievement in top 10% or rarer) in one or more domains.  Domains include any structured area of activity with its own symbol system (e.g., mathematics, music, language) and/or set of sensorimotor skills (e.g., painting, dance, sports). - NAGC

  3. What is Intelligence? Intelligence is classically defined as “the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.” - Oxford Dictionary

  4. What is Creativity? • Fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration • Divergent thinking skills • Problem solving strategies - Tom Luna, Idaho State Department of Education

  5. So, what is the relationship of creativity and giftedness?

  6. There are conflicting theories about the relationship between creativity and giftedness:

  7. Comparison Chart on following slide: http://www.bertiekingore.com/high-gt-create.htm

  8. Creativity Assessments:

  9. Ideas for the classroom: • Allow students to pursue independent projects based on their own individual interests. (http://www.education.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/GiftedStudents.pdf) • Allow gifted children to create and publish a class newspaper to distribute as well as allow them to explore ways of connecting unrelated issues in creative ways. (http://www.education.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/GiftedStudents.pdf) • In his work titled “Teaching for Creativity,” E. Paul Torrance records nine ways of teaching children to think creatively based on his research. The following is taken from his list: • Implementing media and reading programs such as Reading 360 or Junior Great Books which focuses on shared inquiry-Socratic seminar style of learning and engagement • Use the creative arts as vehicles for teaching and practicing creative thinking (http://cpsb.com/resources/downloads/public/TeachingforCreaTorrance.pdf)

  10. Strategies for Unlocking Creativity in Gifted Students:(http://prezi.com/x10f4t-j7ppt/unlocking-creativity-in-gifted-and-talented-learners/) • Promoting Intrinsic Motivation to Students (Henssey) • Integrating the arts into academic curriculum (e.g. Hetland, 2000; Seeley, 1994; Walders, 2002; and Willet, 1992) The following strategies come from MilhalyCsikszentmihalyi’s FLOW model from McGuiness, M. 2009 video: • Encourage concentration • Immersion • Risk-taking • Making a contribution • Providing a challenge

  11. Resources to utilize: • Junior Great Books series for implementing shared inquiry • Think It series • Make It Real: Strategies for Success with Informational Text

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