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Strop, Jean – Understanding Our Gifted, 2001
This article discusses how parents and educators can best help highly creative students when they need emotional support. Strategies include: encouraging creation of products, using creative visualization strategies, using role playing situations, providing support groups experiences, and using direct instruction to explain what may be going on…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Problems
Riley, John F. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1990
Sociodrama is presented as a structured, yet flexible, method of encouraging the use of creative thinking to examine a difficult problem. An example illustrates the steps involved in putting sociodrama into action. Production techniques useful in sociodrama include the soliloquy, double, role reversal, magic shop, unity of opposites, and audience…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Dramatics
Kohl, MaryAnn F. – 1999
Intended to encourage children to develop their imaginations naturally, with only a small amount of help from adults, this book presents over 125 activities for creative and pretend play for young children. The book's introduction describes the importance and benefits of pretend play, the adult's role, and needed materials and space. The…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Books, Childrens Literature, Class Activities