Using Creativity in Your Teaching

This collection brings together chapters from a selection of our titles on Creativity, helping you to better understand the value of creativity in the classroom as well as how to encourage it in your students. In chapter one, Creativity and Classrooms, Alane Jordan Starko explores what role classrooms play in the development - or limiting - of creativity. Chapter two, taken from Creativity and Innovation, discusses how teaching creative thinking strategies to students is a long-term investment upon which they will be able to draw throughout their creativity and from Creativity and Critical Thinking by Helen Gadsby, Steve Padget and Andrea Bull event, chapter three, Creativity In - Creativity Out, examines some of the key ideas that lead us to an understanding of the importance of creativity and the role it plays in the processes of learning and teaching. Chapter four, Supporting Ideas, taken from Creativity for Innovation Management by Ina Goller and John Bessant, provides guidance on understanding the supports support for ideas plays in creativity. Chapter five, taken from Coach Creativity byity by Jen Gash, proposes a model for coaching creativity. Finally, chapter six, Assessing Creativity from Developing Creativity in the Classroom, discusses methods for testing the development of creativity