Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
• For Students:
– Variety, variety, variety
– Address preferences
– Provide challenges and supports
– Allows some autonomy
– Better prepared for changing times
• For Instructors:
– Get to know students better
– More reflection on teaching
– More confidence
My Intentions: Who Targeted
Community College
Survey of Student
Engagement
(pronounced “sessie”)
NSSE Benchmarks
Level of
Active &
Academic
Collaborative
Challenge
Learning
Student
Faculty
Interaction
Enriching Supportive
Educational Campus
Experiences Environment
Level of Academic Challenge
• IQ tests
• Scrambled cities
• Crossword puzzles
• Competitions
• Dilemmas or Situations
• Unscrambled sayings.
8. Coat of Arms--fill in.
Cooperative
What is an idea city? Where want
to live? What makes it cool?
• Culture, parks, night spots,
scenery, outdoor recreation,
music scene, all-night cafes,
extreme sports, outdoor
recreation
• Lots of job opportunities
• Diversity within the community
What is an idea city? Where want
to live? What makes it cool?
• Convenience for amenities
• Fun; high energy—bike lanes,
ultimate frisbee, climbing walls,
urban parks, bistros and cafes not
chains
The Creative Class
• Values creativity, value tolerance,
promote individuality, embrace
diversity and differences, open to
immigration, and merit
• Are active & participate, not watch
sports
• Want: relax dress codes, use flexible
schedules, and new work rules
The Creative Class
• Engage in work to create
meaningful new forms (scientists,
engineers, professors, poets,
novelists, actors, entertainers,
architects, analysts, think-tank
researchers, artists, editors,
cultural figures)
Pedagogical Strategies:
A. Creative Thinking
1. Brainstorm, Reverse BS: Top Ten Lists
2. Simulations, Creativity License Cards, Six Hats
3. Wet Inking, Freewriting, or Diaries
4. Role Plays & Assigning Thinking Roles
5. Forced Wrap Arounds
6. Semantic Webbing or Mapping
7. Idea-Spurring Questions, Think Sheets
8. Metaphors, What Ifs, Analogies
9. Checkerboarding, Attribute Listing
10. Exploration and Web Link Suggestions
Activities—Creativity Tasks
1. Metaphorical Thinking
2. New Perspectives
3. Webbing
4. Just Suppose
5. Creativity Awareness
6. Creative Dramatics
7. Creative Writing and Story Telling
8. Wet Ink or Freewriting
9. Brainstorming
10. Reverse Brainstorming
1. Metaphorical thinking
von Oech's
•Explorer
•Artist
•Judge
•Warrior
6. Creative Dramatics
Object Obituary:
• Write a fictional obituary for some object that you own or
were close to.
8. Wet Ink or Freewriting