Encouraging creativity in the classroom (Issues and innovations in education)

Torrance, E. Paul

W.C. Brown Co

Book by Torrance, E. Paul, Torrance, J. Pansy

Is Creativity Teachable (Fastback Ser: No 20)

Torrance, J. Pansy

Phi Delta Kappa International

Guiding creative talent

R.E. Krieger Pub. Co.

P. Torrance described a framework for creative thinking processes in his 1979 book The Search for Satori and Creativity. Torrance said the important aspects of creativity are fluency, flexibility, and elaboration. He presents ways to facilitate these by using key words and application activities.

The Search for Satori and Creativity

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Creative Education Foundation

World renowned leaders in gifted education, Dr. E. Paul Torrance and Dr. Dorothy S. Sisk team up in Gifted and Talented Children in the Regular Classroom to share their wealth of experience. The authors believe "that it is time to devise concepts and procedures which will engage the gifted and non-gifted in such a way that all children may attain their highest potential." In Gifted and Talented Children in the Regular Classroom this is precisely what they attempt to do.

Gifted and Talented Children in the Regular Classroom

Education & Teaching

Sisk, Dorothy

Schools & Teaching

Creative Education Foundation, Inc.

Concerning the river of life, there are two ways to approach it, one is to sit on the bank, clinging to the side and watch the river as it passes by. The other is to jump in, navigate your own way down the river and enjoy an invigorating journey! Developing your higher consciousness and using your inner-knowing will point the way toward greater fulfillment in your life. Spiritual Intelligence is the ability to use a multisensory approach to problem solving and learn to listen to your inner voice. The work of respected scientists, psychologists, spiritual pathfinders and ancient wisdom and mythic traditions under girds the theory of spiritual intelligence and pedagogy. Dorothy Sisk and E. Paul Torrance have gathered a foundation for a theory of spiritual intelligence that suggests in many ways that SQ encompasses all the intelligences. By using your spiritual intelligence you can create the life you want and with others like minded individuals the world we want. In Spiritual Intelligence: Developing Higher Consciousness, you will have an opportunity to examine what Sisk and Torrance call Spiritual Pathfinders, individuals who shaped their own lives and the lives of others to “make a difference,” and learn about the characteristics of spiritual intelligence. You will learn how to tap into your intuition and visualization, as powerful means of using your inner knowing. Whatever we teach or do, ultimately we teach who we are. Have you ever: · thought about someone and that person called you · felt an overwhelming sense of oneness with nature, a sense of flowing into life · visualized how life could be with such detail and emotion, it appeared real · saw something you dreamed about actually happen · sat quietly and a solution to a problem popped into your head · felt so deeply about a problem that you were almost incapacitated · wanted to bring “spirit” back to education · expanded your ego and gone beyond limitations of space and time · used imaging and meditation to solve a problem · wanted to resolve an ethical dilemma · wanted to focus on what is ultimately important in life · wanted to nurture a deeper sense of self in your children and in your self · wondered about the meaning of life · wanted to honor your students or children’s quest to find what gives a life meaning and integrity · felt questions were as important as answers · felt deeply connected with nature, others and the cosmos · wanted to build stronger ties to your community When we bring forth spiritual intelligence in learning, we will help students honor life’s most meaningful questions. Spiritual Intelligence: Developing Higher Consciousness will show you how teachers can best transform curriculum and classrooms so students can connect with their inner selves, other individuals and nature. We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the secret sits in the middle and knows. Robert Frost By separating the intellect as we know it from our inner knowing, all our intelligences suffer. Ways of knowing that include imaging, meditation and intuition allow us to pay attention to our uniqueness and be fully present, trusting our responses, our ways of knowing that arise in the moment. It is a new way to be a problem

Spiritual Intelligence : Developing Higher Consciousness

Sisk, Dorothy A.

Self-Help

The Incubation Model of Teaching: Getting Beyond the Aha!

Safter, H. Tammy

Bearly Ltd

Why Fly? is without argument, an important contribution to the body of theoretical literature on creativity. What makes this work unique, however, is that it's content and focus also enable it to stand on the shelf along side books on counseling/self help, curriculum development, school administration, business, and leadership. In short, Dr. Torrance has successfully produced a book with nearly universal appeal and application possibilities. - Roeper Review . . .For readers who are well-versed in Torrance's major ideas and themes, the book will serve as a convenient reference resource and probably as a source of some previously undiscovered pieces. For new explorers into the creativity literature, it will provide helpful grounding in the work of a major figure in the field and foundation for new questions and directions. 
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Why Fly?: A Philosophy of Creativity (Publications in Creativity Research)

Biographies & Memoirs

Praeger

Why Fly?: A Philosophy of Creativity (Creativity Research)

Creativity

More than 40 years ago, E. Paul Torrance undertook to study creativity in students and study whether it would predict their creative achievements as adults. He and his colleagues wanted to determine what other factors influence, predict, encourage or sustain their creativity over time. There has never been a longitudinal study of creativity of this magnitude. Its findings will be useful to, and have implications for, several audiences: parents, teachers, counselors―especially vocational counselors―university and college instructors, and educational administrators.
The Manifesto for Children was developed on the basis of the responses of 215 young adults who had attended two elementary schools in Minnesota from 1958 to 1964. They had been administered some creativity tests each year, and they were followed up in 1980. On the basis of their questionnaire responses, the Manifesto was developed to describe their ongoing struggle to maintain their creativity and use their strengths to create their careers and to provide guidance to children. In 1998, they were followed up to assess their creative achievements and to validate the Manifesto. Some of the participants had attained eminence, while others had attained only mediocre careers.

The Manifesto: A Guide to Developing a Creative Career (Publications in Creativity Research)

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

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