Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming).
Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts).
Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and maximize creative efforts.
Work Creatively with Others
Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively.
Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group input and feedback into the work.
Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas.
Demonstrate Courage to Explore
View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small success and frequent mistakes.
Implement Innovations
Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur.
Student Learning Targets:
Knowledge Targets
I can
Reasoning Targets
I can
Skills (Performance) Targets
I can
Proficiency Scale
Score
Description
Example
E
Exemplary and Exceeds Proficiency
Sorts, arranges, categorizes, and prioritizes ideas in ways that turn options into creatively productive outcomes.
Makes revisions that significantly improve the quality of ideas.
P
Proficient
-
"The Standard"
Effectively uses organizational techniques such as categorization, prioritization, and classification to evaluate ideas; uses results to select the best idea and provides a clear rationale for decision.
Reviews feedback, translates feedback into logical “next steps,” and makes revisions that improve the quality of the idea.
A
Approaching Proficiency
-
Is beginning to demonstrate the ability to use organizational techniques such as categorization, prioritization, and classification to evaluate ideas; selects the best idea, but rationale for decision lacks clarity.
Reviews feedback and translates feedback into “next steps,” but is unable use feedback to improve the quality of the idea.
N
Novice
-
Reviews ideas without evidence of categorization or prioritization; selects an idea, but is unable to provide a rationale for the decision.