This is a job-embedded project where participants receive creativity training, apply the ideas into their classrooms, create a lesson plan to be used immediately, report assessment results and WEP goals, and write a reflection essay. Completed projects are compiled into a “Creativity Project Workbook” that will be distributed FREE of charge to teachers throughout Ohio to assist them in supporting the creativity of their students. Teams of teachers from the same district are encouraged to participate. No previous creativity training or experience is necessary.

This course offers two options for participation. Click on the option to register:

Three Graduate Credit Hours for  $595 through AU’s Founders School

OR

45 contact hours of Gifted PD (Certificate) for $110

Official Course Description

In this 15-week experience, students will be trained on the Piirto model of creativity. Students will research one aspect of the model in depth, write a curriculum application for use in their classroom, implement the application, and report on the results. Special attention will be given to writing WEP goals for students identified gifted in Creative Thinking Ability as specified by the Ohio Department of Education. This course allows students an opportunity to earn three graduate credit hours for their participation an instructor-led research project on creativity training. This course/experience is job-embedded with two required face-to-face Saturday sessions on Ashland University’s Main Campus.

Requirements

Participants must be a working K-12 educator (public or nonpublic)

with a valid Ohio Gifted Intervention Specialist endorsement and have access to gifted students

OR

a working gifted coordinator with access to gifted students.

All coursework is asynchronous EXCEPT two face to face meetings at Ashland University’s main campus (lunch provided)

Saturday, January 29, 2022, and Saturday, April 9, 2022, from 9:00-3:30

A note from Dr. Jennifer Groman

I am studying the impact of creativity training on teachers and their students in a research project that will continue beyond this class. Throughout the course, I will be collecting data on the experience of participants (teachers and coordinators) through pre- and post-assessments, journal writings, interviews, surveys, and teacher-collected classroom information. Human Subjects Review Board approval is in progress.