WATG 2024 Annual Conference

Educators must be thoughtful about how to support creative students, especially since the field of creativity can be broad-ranging and sometimes unwieldy. And yet, using creativity to help meet the needs of all students - especially those gifted students who are identified in the creative domain - is not only an admirable idea but a critical one. Doing so supports best practices, and more importantly, the students in your classroom or school. Sternberg (2006) talks about the need to “...improve instruction by teaching for creativity as well as teaching students to think creatively” (p. 87). If we are to Imagine, Innovate, and Inspire, let’s use Sternberg’s wise counsel as our guide.

This session will explore a variety of definitions of creativity (i.e., Torrance, May, Sternberg, and more) as well as various programming ideas (i.e., SCAMPER, QFT, CPS, and more). Please note that this session is a condensed version of DPI’s 2023-24 Transforming G/T Teaching and Learning meetings that focused on the theme of creativity.