VanTassel-Baska on creativity

'...what can parents and schools do to promote creative capacities in students?'p.5

1. develop intellectual risk-taking through expression and valuing of differences and through selecting activities of interest from a list of alternative ideas and perspectives;

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2. To develop high level convergent and divergent skills through employing educational models like CPS and problem-based learning that require and promote such skills;

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3. To develop deep knowledge in a domain by exposing students to major areas of thought and encouraging deep learning in those for which there is both interest and aptitude;

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4. To develop strong communication skills in written and oral contexts by requiring student work in both modalities and providing feedback on the effectiveness of the work for communication to an audience;

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5. To develop personal motivation and passion by broad exposure to the culture and following up and supporting expressions of strong interest linked to values and occupational predispositions in and out of school contexts;

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6. To nurture creative habits of mind by broad-based reading, perspective-taking, and the introduction of novelty.

Retreived from:http://cfge.wm.edu/Gifted%20Educ%20Artices/CreativityElusiveFactor.pdf 3/7/2010

Center for Gifted Education

College of William and Mary

Creativity as an Elusive Factor in Giftedness

Joyce VanTassel-Baska , Ed.D.

College of William and Mary