Teaching Creatively
Wednesday, October 7, 6:45-7:45 pm
Online
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, storytelling, 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 - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=1785
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu