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Publication Date: 2010
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Understanding Creativity in the Classroom
Beghetto, Ronald A.
Understanding Our Gifted, v22 n2 p11-13 Win 2010
Most educators who work with gifted students acknowledge the importance of creativity and have found various ways to include it as part of the gifted education curriculum. In many cases, however, developing creativity is still viewed as something separate from academic learning. Students with undemonstrated creative potential often are excluded from curricular efforts aimed at developing this skill. Support for creativity in many schools and classrooms is either fragmented or nonexistent. Educators and parents need to focus on identifying and encouraging the creative potential of "all" students, including the gifted. Hopefully, teachers and parents will think more broadly about the nature of creativity and how it can be used in the classroom. They must take the time to see, hear, recognize, and encourage the small signs of creative potential found in the everyday learning and lives of young people.
Descriptors: Creativity, Academically Gifted, Creative Teaching, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Classroom Environment, Student Characteristics
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Language: English
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