Unlocked: Assessment as the Key to Everyday Creativity in the Classroom (Teaching and Measuring Creativity and Creative Skills)

Creativity enhances the quality of our lives, encouraging us to look deeper, search wider, and explore multiple perspectives. With Unlocked by Katie White, you'll discover how to effectively connect creativity and assessment of creativity within any classroom setting. A variety of practical ideas and tools helps you design rich, authentic learning experiences that encourage inquiry and creative development rather than compliance and "right" answers.

Learn how to develop creativity assessment methods that truly foster creativity:

• Develop an understanding of the creative process and its four critical stages. Explore the numerous benefits of encouraging and developing students' creative thinking skills.
• Examine, in depth, the connection between effective assessment and students' creative development.
• Acquire concrete strategies for developing assessment methods (such as formative and self-assessment for learning) that unlock students' creative skills.
• Access free online reproducibles and resources for teaching creative skills and assessing creativity in the classroom.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Exploring the Integrated Nature of Assessment and the Creative Process
Chapter 2: Unlocking the Creative Space
Chapter 3: Unlocking Exploration
Chapter 4: Unlocking Elaboration
Chapter 5: Unlocking Expression
Chapter 6: Unlocking Reflection and Response
Appendix A
Appendix B
References and Resources
Index

Katie White is coordinator of learning for the North East School Division in Saskatchewan, Canada, and an educational consultant. With more than twenty years working in education, she has been a district and in-school administrator, a learning coach, and a K-12 classroom teacher.

Katie was an integral part of her school division's multiyear journey through renewed curricula and standards-based assessment and reporting. She helps develop and utilize strong assessment and grading practices that support teaching and learning in classrooms. Her focus is on helping educators develop a personalized understanding of the connections among curriculum, assessment, and instruction. She has developed multiple supports for teachers and administrators as well as facilitators of school-based professional learning. She is a co-moderator of the All Things Assessment (#ATAssess) Twitter chat and a frequent contributor to the All Things Assessment blog (allthingsassessment.info/blog).

Katie received a bachelor of education and master of education in curriculum studies from the University of Saskatchewan.

To learn more about Katie's work, visit kwhiteconsulting.com, or follow her @KatieWhite426 on Twitter.

To book Katie White for professional development, contact pd@SolutionTree.com.