Ronald A. Beghetto

Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom Ronald A. Beghetto

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; For many educators, nurturing students' creativity seems to conflict with ensuring that they learn specific skills and content. In this book, the authors outline ways to adapt existing lessons and mandated curricula to encourage the development of student creativity alongside more traditional academic skills. Contributor Bio:  Beghetto, Ronald A Ronald A. Beghetto, Ph. D., is an Associate Professor of Education Studies at the University of Oregon. His scholarship focuses on promoting creativity in K-12 classrooms and the influence of past schooling experience on K-12 teacher development. His recent publications on creativity and teacher development appear in a wide variety of scholarly journals - including the Creativity Research Journal, the Journal of Creative Behavior, Creativity and Thinking Skills, Educational Psychologist, the Journal of Advanced Academics, the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, and the Journal of Educational Research - and edited volumes: Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development, Creativity: From Potential to Realization, Creativity: A Handbook for Teachers, Critical Issues and Practices in Gifted Education, and Rethinking Gifted Education. He serves on the editorial boards of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts; the Journal of Creative Behavior; and the Journal of Educational Research and is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving. He is the 2008 recipient of the Daniel E. Berlyne Award from the American Psychological Association's Division 10. He has also received awards for excellence in teaching, including the 2005 2006 Crystal Apple Ersted Award for Outstanding Teaching from the University of Oregon. Contributor Bio:  Kaufman, James C James C. Kaufman is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the California State University at San Bernardino, where he is also the director of the Learning Research Institute. He received his B. A. in Psychology from the University of Southern California and his Ph. D. from Yale University in Cognitive Psychology, where he worked with Robert J. Sternberg. Kaufman's main area of expertise is creativity. With Sternberg and Jean Pretz, he developed the propulsion model of creative contributions, outlined in The Creativity Conundrum (Psychology Press, 2002). He coined 'the Sylvia Plath Effect', based on an analysis of female poets, in a paper in Journal of Creative Behavior, and his recent work on poets dying young has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, BBC, CNN, and newspapers and magazines across the world. His other books include International Handbook of Creativity, Intelligence, Applied Psychology and Free Will, Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse, Gender Differences in Mathematics, and The Evolution of Intelligence. Contributor Bio:  Baer, John John Baer (Ph. D.) is Professor of Educational Psychology at Rider University. He earned his B. A. at Yale, where he double majored in psychology and Japanese Studies and graduated magna cum laude. He received his Ph. D. from Rutgers in developmental and cognitive psychology. He won the American Psychological Foundation's Berlyne Prize for his research on creativity in 1993, and in 1997 the Eighth National Conference on College Teaching and Learning presented Dr Baer with its annual Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology. He has published seven books, including Creativity and Divergent Thinking: A Task-Specific Approach; Creative Teachers, Creative Students; and Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse (with James C. Kaufman).