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=GT TEACHING STRTEGY OF THE WEEK: WILLIAMS’ TAXONOMY OF CREATIVE THINKING =

//Williams’ Taxonomy of Creative Thought has eight levels arranged in a hierarchy. Fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration relate to cognitive areas of intellectual development while risk-taking, complexity, curiosity, and imagination relate to affective areas of personal development.//

• Think of as many solutions as you can to the bullying problem. • How many figures can you use to build a home? • List everything in your home you could use to measure the width of your bedroom.
 * Fluency**: generating a great many ideas, related answers, or choices. (Many)

• Classify professions that use mathematics in as many ways as you can. • What questions could all have the answer, Martin Luther King Jr.? • If there were no phones or cell phones how many ways would life be different?
 * Flexibility**: changing everyday objects to generate a variety of categories, by taking detours and varying sizes, shapes, quantities, time limits, requirements, objectives or dimensions. (Adaptability)

• In what ways could you power your home without using electricity or natural gas? • What could you invent that would solve the problem of world hunger? • What might George Washington say to President Barack Obama?
 * Originality**: seeking new ideas by suggesting unusual twists to change content or coming up with clever responses. (Uniqueness)

• Explain why mathematics is a language. • What do you think this means, “We should speak softly but carry a big stick”? • Complete this story, She panicked, he hands flew across the cluttered desk liberating papers, pens, and fast food wrappers……
 * Elaboration**: expanding, enlarging, enriching or embellishing possibilities that build on previous thoughts or ideas. (Adding on)

• Rename your classmates to match their personality. • If you could do anything with absolutely no negative consequences what would it be? • What is more important to you, love or power?
 * Risk Taking**: dealing with the unknown by taking chances, experimenting with new ideas or trying new challenges. (Exploration)

• Which is more intense, fear or pain? • Explain all the ways computers influence our lives. • List all the possible effects of ocean temperature rising 5 degrees.
 * Complexity**: creating structure in an unstructured setting or building a logical order in a given situation. (Intricacy)

• The results: A broken window and a crying baby. What happened? • What is more intriguing to you, a broken engine or a broken heart? • Pretend you are a bee. What would you want to know about humans?
 * Curiosity**: following a hunch, questioning alternatives, pondering outcomes and wondering about options. (Inquiry)

• Imagine you invented a new energy source. What is it? What would you do about it? • Imagine how William Shakespeare would react to Hollywood films. • If you had no mouth, how would things be different?
 * Imagination**: visualizing possibilities, building images in the mind, picturing new objects, reaching beyond the limits of the practical. (Fantasize)