Teaching Creatively
Thursday, March 26 1:30-2:45
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://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=1164
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu