Training and Professional Development

  • Teaching Creatively

    Teaching Creatively
    Thursday, October 31                         1:00-2:15
    Rowe 319
    Presenter: Wayne Trembly, CETL

    Participants will leave with specific strategies for teaching more creatively

    At this session, participants will discuss topics like:

    • Tools to enhance creativity, such as SCAMPER, Synectics, Brainstorming, and others
    • The role of choice in motivating students to be more creative and productive
    • Presenting products creatively
    • Taking chances
    • Active learning
    • Bloom’s Taxonomy
    • Playing to your strengths
    • Finding creative ways to present material in order to increase student interest and participation
    • The role of improvisation, role play, story telling, modeling the real world…
    • Learning games, Ice Breakers…
    • Making it safe to fail
    • Using art and music
    • Divergent and convergent thinking
    • Using student creativity to help plan more interesting lessons
    • Encouraging reluctant students to be more creative
    • Assessment techniques that encourage creative problem solving

    Register at - https://web9.uits.uconn.edu/fins/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=1074   

    For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu