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3.4.8 Ways to Enhance Creative Behavior Using Torrance’s Indicators
Creativity is highly valued in our world, yet creativity research has shown that creative expression decreases as students progress through school. Torrance’s extensive research in the areas of assessing and developing creative thinking behaviors has produced a list of creative indicators that can assist educators in nurturing creative thinking throughout their curriculum. Using examples from social studies curriculum, the session will enable participants to experience ways that creative behaviors can be enhanced and engaged and to brainstorm ways to apply those behaviors to their teaching practice.
Author(s):
Barbara Swicord
bswicord@giftedstudy.org
NSGT/SIG
United States
Barbara Swicord, Ed.D. is President and CEO of the Summer Institute for the Gifted and the Executive Director of the National Society for the Gifted and Talented. Her 41 years in gifted education have included working as an itinerant teacher for the gifted in Georgia, to Utah where she was a teacher, Teacher Coordinator, and Curriculum Designer for Salt Lake City School's G/T Program, and to New Jersey, where she spent ten years as the G/T Supervisor for the East Orange School District, and finally to Connecticut to work with SIG and NSGT, where she has been since 2000.