Jack Hernandez E.d.D., LPC

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS ON CREATIVITY

• LSCS Expanding Horizons, 2014
• Assoc. of Leadership Educators, 2014
• National Institute of Staff and Leadership Development, 2014
• LSCS Teaching and Learning, 2014
• Gateway Course Experience, 2014

Whats so important about teaching students how to think creatively?

Student Survey comments on using CPS

• "Got students involved and used class to help other students"
• "everyone participated"
• "the way he asked for our feedback"
• "listing issues and ways to overcome them"
• "showing how to plan for your future and understanding it"

Increasingly Important over the next 5 years

• Critical thinking/problem solving
• Information technology application
• Teamwork/Collaboration
• Creativity/Innovation
• Diversity
• "Now Your Thinking About College" (Chartran et al., 2012)

Blooms Taxonomy of Higher Order Thinking- Wikimedia.org

Creativity and Education:  Why it Matters Study

(2010 IBM Global CEO study)

(Puccio et. al., 2011; Trilling & Fadel, 2009)

The Rise of the Creative Class- (Richard Florida, 2012)

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The 4 P's of Creativity

• Person
• Press
• Process
• Product
• Mel Rhodes (1961)

Attributes of Creative Person

• autonomy
• flexibility
• preference for complexity
• openness to experience*
• sensitivity (to the environment

Personality attributes of the Creative person cont.

• Playfulness
• Tolerance for ambiguity
• Risk taking
• Intrinsic motivation
• Psychological androgyny

Personality attributes of the Creative person cont.

• Self-efficacy
• Wide interests and curiosity
• (Runco, 2014)

teaching attributes of the creative person via IMPROV

Shapes activity handout

The environment plays a critical role in creativity

Does your campus encourage creativity?

Process

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Using CPS with FTIC students

A) NOVEL, B) VALUABLE, C) TASK APPROPRIATENESS

Incomplete Figures Task

Activity that keeps you from thinking (#1/Tim Hurson)

Activity that keeps you from thinking (#2/Tim Hurson)

Activity that keep you from thinking (#3/Tim Hurson)

"What if..."

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas"-Linus Pauling

TORRANCE TEST OF CREATIVE THINKING

• Fluency
• Flexibility 
• Originality
• Elaboration

The Myths of Innovation (Scott Burkun)

DIVERGENT THINKING GUIDELINES

• Defer judgment
• Go for quantity
• Make connections
• Seek novelty
• Wildcard:  Incubation

CONVERGENT THINKING GUIDELINES

• Judge affirmatively
• Keep novelty alive
• Check your objectives
• Stay focused

What I like about this roach is...

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FTIC students using creative problem solving to address a student issue

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Give information about the creative process (Torrance, 1995)

when you look at this picture what I ideas do you get for improving the dog?

When you look at this picture, what ideas do you get for improving the dog?

when you look at this picture, what ideas do you get for improving the dog?

Challenge for table

• What might be a benefit of assessing creativity within our incoming students?
• What might be all the ways to teach and train students about creativity on campus?
• What might be the benefit of assessing the campus climate for creativity?

Stay Flexible!              Thanks for participating

Jack Hernandez, Ed.D., LPC

Univ. of Utah conferences on the Identification of Creative Scientific Talent (1950s-60s)

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