Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom: Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers

Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom introduces faculty, administrators, and staff to creative techniques that can be incorporated into the classroom at undergraduate and graduate levels. These techniques from the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences can enhance learning and support professional development experiences for students and faculty alike.

While faculty are experts in their disciplines, many are not formally trained in effective or evidence-based teaching practices. Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom brings together creative and successful approaches to teaching across disciplines to provide an exciting resource for implementing and generating teaching practices to make our classrooms welcoming and empowering spaces, whether in person or online. Editors Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Michael Morrone, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, and Karissa Rector have collected over 40 essays to equip university and college instructors with teaching strategies, tools, materials, ideas, assignments, and more to foster engagement with as many students as possible while supporting faculty and student agency in the learning process.

Gathering a diverse array of award-winning teachers from a wide range of disciplines and academic levels, Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom will prove to be an invaluable resource for evidence-based effective teaching that cultivates creativity and enhances students' opportunities to demonstrate what they have learned in the classroom and beyond.

Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick is Chancellor's Professor of English, Affiliate Faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Director of the Office of Student Research at Indiana University Columbus.Michael Morrone is Teaching Professor of Business Communication at the Kelley School of Business and the former Executive Director of FACET at Indiana University Bloomington.Deborah Elizabeth Whaley is Professor of African American Studies and former Senior Scholar for Digital Arts and Humanities for the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio at the University of Iowa.Karissa Rector is the Operations Director for the Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) at Indiana University. She serves as the Editorial Assistant for the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) and the Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology (JoTLT). She also assisted with the publication of Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities (2020).