Ms. Anderson wants to encourage creative thinking in her students. She uses all of the following strategies and responses. Which one is LEAST likely to promote creativity?
a. Students work in groups to come up with their solutions to an ill-structured problem.
b. Ms. Anderson teaches students how to use the LINCS steps to learn vocabulary.
c. The class brainstorms ways to use their new knowledge to improve safety at school.
d. Students describe situations during a war when it might have been appropriate for soldiers to break a certain rule.
Question 2
Based on the following descriptions, which of these students seems to exhibit the highest degree of creativity?
a. Julianna is usually the first one in her third grade class to finish the math assignment every day. She likes to compete to be first, and she usually makes a perfect score on her math papers.
b. Arial knows more facts about the solar system than anyone else in her fifth grade class. During class discussions, she often tells something she has learned about one of the planets.
c. Foster began taking piano lessons when he was four years old. His parents make sure he practices every day. Now he's a senior in high school and plays with the philharmonic in his city.
d. Leo often throws out metaphors during class discussions and is curious about everything (the way his desk is constructed, the way his ball bounces on different surfaces).