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Creativity in Any Subject

Creativity Challenge 1998 #12

This Challenge has been sparked by Doris (Dorie) Shallcross, Ph.D.'s book: TEACHING CREATIVE BEHAVIOR, 1981.

In her chapter 12 she gives many examples of how any teacher might help to develop creative thinking behavior and skills in any topic area... "INCORPORATING CREATIVE PROCESSES INTO EXISTING CURRICULA".

She has taken 4 Creative Thinking Techniques:

  1. Brainstorming
  2. Forced Relationships
  3. Associations
  4. Attribute Listing
and 7 Problem Solving Abilities and created created two matrixes by combining them with 9 topic areas: art, health, home arts, language arts, math, music, physical education, science and social studies to develop teaching assignments.

Here are 4 examples of exercises she offers teachers to consider. You Challenge this week is to take a 1/2 hour and try one and share your reactions to it.

W. with a friend or fellow employee create a drawing using crayons each taking a brief turn and rotate turns back and forth. Before starting choose a theme randomly. Once you start DO NOT TALK AT ALL! Does this for 3 to 5 minutes. Then discuss the experience with each other. (note Ned Herrmann has used this exercise to demonstrate challenges between distinctly different Brain Dominances for years)

X. brainstorm a list of "Easy Exercises for Lazy People"

Y. plan a soap opera or a mystery series by using the Morphological Approach to Story Plotting. (make a grid out of the various pieces of a story across the top hero, heroine, location, situation, weapon, other characters...etc. under each heading brainstorm 12 different examples. Then randomly pick one item from each column and create 12 stories.)

Z. watch a television show for 15 minutes and then create 3 to 6 different ways to complete the story without watching the actual story. You might video the actual show and compare how "uncreative" it was compared to your own.

Pick one of these and have some creative fun this week.

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