In this practical guide, Sternberg and Williams share 25 easy-to-implement strategies for developing creativity in yourself, your students, and your colleagues. The strategies include explanations entwined with personal experiences from the authors' own classrooms and research. The authors give a basic explanation of creativity and relate techniques you can use to choose creative environments, expose students to creative role models, and identify and surmount obstacles to creativity. Some of the techniques they explore include questioning assumptions, encouraging idea generation, teaching self-responsibility, and using profiles of creative people. Creativity is as much an attitude toward life as a matter of ability. Use these strategies to discover how to unleash the creative potential within you and your students for more creative and fulfilling lives. The 25 strategies described in this book can be used to develop personal creativity, student creativity, and creativity in colleagues and staff members. The strategies are based on investment theory, a psychological theory of creativity, but any one strategy is consistent with many other theories. The investment theory of creativity asserts that creative thinkers are like good investors: They buy low and sell high. Whereas investors do so in the world of finance, creative people do so in the world of ideas by taking a unique, typically undervalued idea and convincing other people of its worth. The 25 ways to develop creativity explored in this book are: (1) modeling creativity; (2) building self-efficacy; (3) questioning assumptions; (4) defining and redefining problems; (5) encouraging idea generation; (6) cross-fertilizing ideas; (7) allowing time for creative thinking; (8) instructing and assessing creativity; (9) rewarding creative ideas and products; (10) encouraging sensible risks; (11) tolerating ambiguity; (12) allowing mistakes; (13) identifying and surmounting obstacles; (14) teaching self-responsibility; (15) promoting self-regulation; (16) delaying gratification; (17) using profiles of creative people; (18) encouraging creative collaboration; (19) imagining other viewpoints; (20) recognizing environmental fit; (21) finding excitement; (22) seeking stimulating environments; (23) playing to strengths; (24) growing creatively; and (25) proselytizing for creativity. (Contains 51 references.) (WJC) Robert J. Sternberg and Wendy M. Williams share 25 easy-to-implement strategies for developing creativity in yourself, your students, and your colleagues. The strategies include explanations entwined with personal experiences from the authors'own classrooms and research.Sternberg and Williams give a basic explanation of creativity and relate techniques you can use to choose creative environments, expose students to creative role models, and identify and surmount obstacles to creativity. Some of the techniques they explore include questioning assumptions, encouraging idea generation, teaching self-responsibility, and using profiles of creative people.Note: This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book. In This Practical Guide, The Authors Share 25 Easy-to-implement Strategies For Developing Creativity In Yourself, Your Students, And Your Colleagues. The Strategies Include Explanations Entwined With Personal Experiences From The Authors' Own Classrooms And Research. The Prerequisites -- Learning Basic Techniques -- Teaching Tips -- Avoiding Roadblocks -- Adding Complex Techniques -- Using Role Models -- Exploring The Environment -- Viewing The Long-term Perspective. Robert J. Sternberg And Wendy M. Williams. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 50-52). Contents......Page 4 Introduction: Theory of Creativity......Page 6 The Prerequisites......Page 12 Learning Basic Techniques......Page 16 Teaching Tips......Page 25 Avoiding Roadblocks......Page 30 Adding Complex Techniques......Page 37 Using Role Models......Page 43 Exploring the Environment......Page 48 Viewing the Long- Term Perspective......Page 53 References......Page 55 In this practical guide, Sternberg and Williams share 25 easy to implement strategies for developing creativity in yourself, your students, and your colleagues Shares twenty-five strategies for developing creativity in your students, your colleagues, and yourself.