Day+7-+Creativity


 * Creative Start: Use the items in the bag on your table to make a new game. Define the rules, scoring and how to win the game. Name your game.

Dabrowski's Overexcitablities RAFT**
 * [|Possible RAFT Ideas for Journal Prompts]

A RAFT integrates reading and writing. It gives students an opportunity to explore their creativity, depth of understanding, and point of view of various aspects. There are four elements that are used when developing the product. R **ole  (What is the role of the writer?) ** **A** udience (To whom are you writing?) ** F ormat (What form will your writing take?) T opic (What is the subject or point of your piece?) ** Assignment: Preview the links in the Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities: Resources folder(Learning Styles Link). Then, click on the link below, read the list of Possible RAFT Ideas for Journal Prompts and pick one of the nineteen choices to complete. You will be sharing your creation later in the morning.


 * Creativity and Gifted Students**
 * [|Creativity American Psychological Association Newsletter]
 * [|Creativity of Disaffected Gifted]
 * [|Creativity: Definitions and Myths]
 * [|Giftedness vs Creativity in the Visual Arts]
 * [|Ned Hermann on Creativity]
 * [|Van Tassel Baska on Creativity]
 * [|Creativity PowerPoint]
 * **Ken Robinson Says Schools Kill Creativity**
 * **Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Does Creativity Make You Happy**
 * **Leslie Owen's Creativity Index**
 * [|An Interview with Paul Torrance]
 * [|A Report on the 40-Year Follow-Up of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking- Alive and Well in the New Millennium]
 * [|Sand painting to interpret Germany's occupation of Ukraine during WWII]
 * [|Intellectual Estuaries: Connecting Learning and Creativity in Programs of Advanced Academics]
 * [|**de Bono's 6 Thinking Hats (Let Your Hat Guide Your Brain- 2010 Creativity)**]

There are [|eight creativity stations] set up in the classroom. You will be completing four stations in an allotted amount of time. Based your multiple intelligence test, you must choose two stations in your strongest area(s), one station in your weakest area, and the other station is your choice. Station 1: Mathematical Intelligence Station 2: Visual/Spatial Intelligence Station 3: Visual/Spatial Intelligence and Verbal/Linguistic Station 4: Verbal/Linguistic Station 5: Musical Intelligence Station 6: Visual/Spatial Intelligence Station 7: Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence Station 8: Visual/Spatial Intelligence
 * Creativity Stations**

"Philosophy" can be defined as "critical analysis of fundamental assumptions or beliefs." During the gifted endorsement course, you will encounter information and engage in discussion that will develop and clarify your understanding of gifted education. This assignment will provide an opportunity to record and refine the development of your learning.
 * Philosophy of Gifted Education**

During module one, you will draft two components of this paper: the definition and purpose for gifted education.
 * [|New Philosophy of Education]
 * [|The College Board Essay Scoring Guide will be utilized for evaluation of papers]

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