Reading+Assignment+1+Questions


 * Responses should be submitted by June 8, 2012. **

1) What units of study in your curriculum could most benefit from the connection between emotion and intellect that the arts offer? Which units could benefit from the connection between mind and body? 2) How are you smart, according to Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence theory? Which of the arts seem to connect most elegantly to the ways in which you are intelligent? Which intelligences would you like to explore or deepen? Which of the arts might facilitate this process? 3) What is your most challenging problem as a teacher? How might the arts/creative problem-process help you solve it? What steps might you take?  4) What creativity squelchers do you use?

5) What creativity boosts do you use? How might you weave creativity boosts into your normal schedule? \