What Is Creativity?
The Four Traits
Creativity and Technology
Teacher's Role
Guidelines & Assessment
100

Creating new ideas, processes, or experiences.

What is creativity?

100

The first step where students get excited and ready to think.

What is Warm-up?

100

This slide program can be creative if used well.

What is PowerPoint/Google Slides/Canva?

100

Teachers should use real things, not only this, to make learning creative.

What are workbooks or textbooks?

100

A creative classroom should be this kind of space.

What is an enriched environment?

200

Creativity is often seen only in these subjects.

What are art and drama?

200

Being able to see and use many points of view.

What is elaboration?

200

The class used this activity to show creativity traits.

What is a skit? 

200

Students should help set these to take part in their learning.

What are classroom rules or expectations?

200

This funny activity lists things that bug you.

What is bug listing?

300

Creativity is also important in these subjects.

What are science, math, and social studies?

300

The ability to make unique, uncommon, or surprising ideas.

What is originality?

300

Making puzzles, videos, and drawings are examples of using this.

What is technology for creativity?

300

Teachers should show this attitude to help students feel creative.

What is playfulness or risk-taking?

300

When students share ideas, others must avoid doing this.

What is criticizing ideas?

400

Critical and creative thinking shouldn’t happen together because this can block ideas.

What is criticism?

400

Being able to come up with many ideas.

What is fluency?

400

These tools let students brainstorm and share ideas visually.

What are graphic organizers or mind maps?

400

Displaying student work instead of posters helps students feel this.

What is pride and ownership?

400

When giving feedback on creative work, teachers should do this instead of comparing students.

What is give helpful feedback?

500

Tests show some learning, but not this full picture.

What is students' creative ability?

500

These four words describe how we can measure creativity.

What are fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration?

500

Computers and technology should do this, not replace creative thinking.

What is help or support?

500

Teachers can support creativity by asking these kinds of questions.

What are open-ended or “what if” questions?

500

Teachers can check creativity through what students know, do, and say.

What are content tests, performance, and observation?

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