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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Defining the portfolio
Do you regret the time lost with state mandated assessments? What if the products being assessed were actually part of the learning experience. That is one of the ideas behind the move to assess students through their portfolios. However, before … Continue reading
The case for the case
Portfolio – a portable case for holding papers – a simple name for a collection of works into which a person has poured hours of deliberation and sweat. Today the portfolio is just as likely to be stored on a … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Education trends
Tagged creative portfolio assessment, Creativity, Education, John Baer, portfolio, Teresa Amabile
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Elaboration: the hardest part of creative writing
Elaboration is the process of presenting and developing an idea, by adding more detail to explain the exterior situation so that the reader gains privileged access to interior thoughts of authors. Forming creativity into a product that someone else can … Continue reading
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Tagged Creativity, elaboration, Torrance Test of Creative Thinking
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The ogre of orginality
The creative writer combines originality, complexity, independence of judgment, and aesthetic sensitivity according to the research of Frank Barron, who was known for his in-depth studies of the creative mind. His subjects often took extremely complex elements to produce a … Continue reading
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Tagged Creativity, K through 12, originality, Torrence
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Too rigorous for creativity
A teacher voiced his frustration about getting gifted students past the hurdle of simply looking at events of a story to the uncover the devices that the author used in writing the story. The students need to interpret the effect … Continue reading
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Tagged Creative writing, Creativity, Education, Gifted education, K through 12
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To cheat or not to cheat
“To cheat or not to cheat, that is the question Whether ’tis nobler to in the mind to suffer The sleepless nights of outrageous homework Or to take arms against a … Continue reading
Bucking creative standards
A few years ago, my daughter and I visited the National Portfolio day in Dallas. Over fifty leading art colleges were present to review students’ art work – a sort of hotbed of the creative future. My daughter quickly realized … Continue reading
It’s all about “things”
At the beginning of the second millennium, educators followed the latest trend, focusing on changing students with the idea of making them “better people.” What students learned or produced was secondary. However, creativity is driven by the desire to produce … Continue reading
Unwilling to share
When secondary students think about collaboration on the Internet, it might mean spreading news about a party using Facebook, or spending a night battling in StarCraft with players across the continent. Throw the word “education” into the mix and they … Continue reading
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