30 GT Hours - Creative & Critical Thinking

Objectives:

Understands the characteristics of gifted and talented students and the influence of these characteristics on instructional strategies used in classrooms for the gifted and talented.
Designs lessons within and across disciplines that teach strategies for nurturing creative and critical thinking in the gifted and talented students.
Locates and develops resources for assisting gifted and talented students in the fulfillment of their creative potential.
Adapts the classroom to the learning differences of each gifted and talented learner including the management of large and small groups and independent learning.
Identifies strategies from gifted education that can be used in the regular classroom.

Today's presentation: Creativity Abound

Facilitators:

Heather Martin - hmartin@nisdtx.org

Jill McKee - jill.mckee@nisdtx.org

Depth & Complexity Frame: What is Creativity?

Creativity D&C Frame

Additional Resources

Critical Thinking Resources
Dan Pink - Articles, videos, and interviews on the big ideas reshaping our work, transforming our businesses, and changing our lives.

Strategies/Tools We Used

Question That
Making Meaning Protocol
Alphability
What's in my head?
Scattegories
Forced Associations and analogies
Apples to Apples
Chain Reaction
Draw Starts

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Please complete this Google Form before you leave. This is my back-up documentation of your 30 Hours. This is what I'll use to make your certificates. Look to get that through campus mail once the school year starts.