Share Paper: Creativity SIG Symposium: Creativity Across the Disciplines: Exploring the Boundaries of Teacher Education

1. Punya Mishra, Michigan State University, United States
2. Danah Henriksen, Michigan State University, United States
3. William Cain, Michigan State University, United States
4. Adam Friedman, Wake Forest University, United States
5. Joe Garofalo, University of Virginia, United States
6. Douglas Hartman, Michigan State University, United States
7. David Hicks, University of Virginia, United States
8. John Lee, North Carolina State University, United States
9. John C. Park, Baylor University, United States
10. Shaunna Smith, Texas State University, United States

Abstract: Over the past several decades, creativity has become a subject of heightened interest to the field of teaching (Plucker, Beghetto, and Dow, 2004). Research has shown that teachers, as mentors and role models, are principal constituents in developing student creativity (Renzulli, 1992). Lilly & Bramwell-Rejskind (2004) suggested that teachers who motivate creativity in their students also modeled creative or divergent thinking themselves. How that creativity should be instantiated in teacher education however is a more uncertain prospect. To shed some further light upon these issues, the presentations in this symposium will focus on several different methods courses across different subject ...