Creative new innovations are urgently needed in education and industry. Knowledge gained in industry related to creativity and innovation has potential value when applied in education, and likewise, knowledge gained in education has potential value when applied in industry. This book describes the value of creativity as a bridge between education and industry fostering new innovations. The book includes the following topics: sources of innovation, creative thinking tools, a problem solving process, a process for fostering a culture for creativity and innovation in an organization, teachings of Paul Torrance, renowned leader of creativity in education, and a diagnostic creative intervention-mediation process that integrates diagnostic teaching and mediation skills.
Designed to help educators recognize and nurture students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia, this book guides readers through best practices for using creativity theory and strategies to address the learning challenges for students who have difficulty in acquiring literacy and mathematics content. Offering concrete examples of creativity assessment and pedagogical techniques, chapters are supported by rich appendices providing assessment and screening checklists, time telling objectives, learning trouble spots, a creative approach to teaching place value, and a handy cross-referencing table. Accessible and thorough, this up-to-date guide will help educators develop strategies that acknowledge students’ creative strengths to address learning challenges across the literacy and mathematics curricula.
Student's perceived learning scores were significant when analyzed with creativity and with nonverbal immediacy. Teachers' self-scored immediacy was also significant when analyzed with the scores given by their perspective high school students.
In classroom settings, teachers often do not identify creative children, which may in turn prevent them from fostering students' creative strengths (Dawson, 1997; Reisman & Bach, 2002). Student creative strengths, such as elaboration, originality, fluency, flexibility, and resistance to premature closure (Torrance, 1962) are problem-solving skills that can be used in mathematics. This study explored additional factors that may affect mathematics learning such as teachers' use of Heuristic Diagnostic Teaching principles. Student mathematics scores, though slowly rising in the School District of Philadelphia, are still dramatically low (School District of Philadelphia, 2006). With the purpose of addressing these issues, this exploratory study examined the relationship between teachers who use Heuristic Diagnostic Teaching (HDT) principles in their teaching and their ability to identify student creativity characteristics, the generic influences on learning, as well as their students' mathematics performance. Additionally, the study focused on the relationship between the teachers' own creativity shown by drawings and their ability to identify student creativity characteristics.
Nurse educators attempt to develop critical thinking of nursing students through a variety of instructional methods because they are unable to prepare students for every situation they may encounter. Problem-based learning is the traditional method used. Case analyses conducted in classroom settings have yielded varied results. Recent reports hail high fidelity, patient simulators as an effective tool to enhance critical thinking however, little empirical data exists to support these claims. The current study set out to examine the effect patient simulation has on the critical thinking of nurse practitioner and nurse anesthesia students. Case analysis sessions conducted in the face-to-face format were compared to those sessions conducted around a patient simulator. Participants completed the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST), which includes subscale scores for induction, inference and analysis, to establish a baseline measure of their critical thinking. Participants were then randomly assigned to either format and further randomly assigned to complete one of two cases. All sessions were videotaped and behaviors and discussion were coded using a scoring tool based on Garrison's Stages of Critical Thinking. According to Garrison's Five Stages of Critical Thinking, individuals are said predominantly to use the elements of induction, inference and analysis in the planning phase. Data analysis revealed patient simulation to increase critical thinking during the management planning and evaluation stages. The current study has provided additional empirical evidence supporting the use of simulation during problem-based learning, case analysis to enhance critical thinking, especially during management planning when advanced practice, nursing students formulate creative solutions to the problem, link ideas and make assumptions. Critical thinking was also increased during the evaluation stage when decision-making is a large component and includes an evaluation of progress and mistakes made and a determination of what more must be done. By enhancing critical thinking in these two stages, APNs can be better prepared to evaluate and solve the problems faced in clinical practice leading to better patient outcomes.
Designed to help educators recognize and nurture students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia, this book guides readers through best practices for using creativity theory and strategies to address the learning challenges for students who have difficulty in acquiring literacy and mathematics content. Offering concrete examples of creativity assessment and pedagogical techniques, chapters are supported by rich appendices providing assessment and screening checklists, time telling objectives, learning trouble spots, a creative approach to teaching place value, and a handy cross-referencing table. Accessible and thorough, this up-to-date guide will help educators develop strategies that acknowledge students’ creative strengths to address learning challenges across the literacy and mathematics curricula.
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