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March 29, 2017
It Works for Me, Creatively: Shared Tips for the Classroom
- Author
- Blythe, Hal, and Sweet, Charlie
- Publisher
- New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK
- ISBN
- 9781581072143
- Book Review Link
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/teth.12120/abstract
- Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
Forward: A Space for the Rising Creative Class
Introduction: Creativity R Us
I. Overviews
Creativity—Defining the Undefinable
Dispelling Some Myths of Creativity
A Good Question
Teaching Creativity: A Call to Action
Collaborative Creativity
The Meddler in the Middle
Developing a Space for Creativity
II. The Creative Process
Introduction: Process
Creating Acronymic Processes
How To Expand Without Losing Focus
Creativity in Faculty Development: EXPLORE
Design Thinking is Creative Thinking
Creative Strategies Inherent to Scholarship
What Makes Creative Writing Creative
Communication Fosters Creative Thinking
Creative Connections in a Graduate Advanced
Health Assessment Course
Bending the Realities of Iron
Inventing Parables to Use as Pedagogical Tools
The Creative Classroom: A Model for Developing Creative Students
Sorting It Out: A Hands-On Approach for Promoting Higher-Order Thinking
The Play’s the Thing: Being Creative in the Teaching of Lit
Wait … You Want To Do What?
Creative Use of Film: Students as Hollywood Consultants
Hey! My Dad Takes That: Making
Pharmaceuticals Relevant to Non-Majors
Using Guided Imagery To Cultivate
Creativity in Learners
Unlearning Rules and Embracing Creativity: Using Prezi to Rethink PowerPoint
An Online Debate
A Creative Exercise: A Joke-Telling Simulation to Learn About Capitalism
Le’go My Ego: An Exercise for Ego Separation and Team Building
Creative Options for Characterization
Engaging with Text and Eliminating Highlighting
A Creative Way to Choose a Research Topic
“In Which Ways” Can You Foster Creativity?
Beach Ball
Center Managers
Natural Disasters
Field Connections
Changing Perspectives: A Negotiated Agreements Scavenger Hunt
Using Inquiry to Spark Creativity
III. The Creative Environment
Introduction: Environment
But I’m Not Creative
Practicalities in Teaching Creativity
Unleashing Student Creativity by Unveiling the Mystique of General Education
Developing a Creative Environment
Going Green: Creating a Creative Environment
Trust as a Foundation of Creativity
A Creative Use of Student Evaluations
Building Creative Learning Environments in Higher Education
Using Culturally Relevant Pedagogy to Create a Bridge to Learning
The Reality-Based Approach to Learning
Channeling Your Inner Ms. Frizzle
Something New and Imaginative in Student Learning
Modeling the Creative Process in the Classroom
Finding the Strength in All Types of Learners
Creativity as a Disposition
Creative Networking
Roleplaying as Creativity
Music in the Key of See
Got Character?
IV. The Creative Product
Introduction: Product
Creating Musical Group Names to Aid Student Memory
“It’s Only Words, and Words Are All I Have …” 
Creating Theory Stories
Challenging Developmental Writers to Use Their Creativity
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Bucks, But Maybe Not in Creative Writing Classes
What’s Wrong With This Picture
Promoting Creativity in the Learning Process
Creneology
TIP for a Creative Summary Project
Shifting Perception
Changing Student Perceptions: The Family History Museum
An Exercise for Creating a Poem
Discovering Creativity Through Color Exploration
Fundamental and Powerful Concepts
Play It Again: A Creative Technique for Creative Writing and Literary Analysis
 
V. Assessing Creativity
Introduction to Assessment
Assessing the Creative Environment
Assessing Creative Strategies
Assessing Instructors of Creativity
She Blinded Me with Science
Obtaining Mid-semester Feedback from Students
Issuing Creative License
 
VI. Afterword
The authors’ purpose in this seventh book in the “It Works for Me” series is to demonstrate that “everyone possesses creative talent, though it may be latent in some and difficult to bring out in others.  It’s not just a talent possessed by artists and engineers, mind you, but everyone.”  Furthermore, “Creative people have figured out consciously or un- that a small seed of creativity can be made to grow by having the proper environment and a minimal set of skills.  And people can be taught or self-taught this process.”
The authors/editors also believe that “all creative ideas link themselves to other creative ideas to develop something new and useful, be it a concept, a process, or a product.  In order to disseminate and perpetuate [their] belief that the creative impulse resides in all of us, [they] have asked a host of friends to demonstrate it with essays and practical tips touching on supportive creative environments, strategies that foster and enhance creativity, and assessments that demonstrate creativity has indeed taken place.” (From the Publisher)
The authors/editors also believe that “all creative ideas link themselves to other creative ideas to develop something new and useful, be it a concept, a process, or a product.  In order to disseminate and perpetuate [their] belief that the creative impulse resides in all of us, [they] have asked a host of friends to demonstrate it with essays and practical tips touching on supportive creative environments, strategies that foster and enhance creativity, and assessments that demonstrate creativity has indeed taken place.” (From the Publisher)