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Institute for Creative Education (ICE)

Institute for Creative Education (ICE). A program that teaches a creative problem-solving process based in a sequentially ordered curriculum that integrates thinking skill development into a wide variety of subject areas.

Description The Institute for Creative Education (ICE) program is based on the belief that creative problem solving is essential to a quality learning experience. The program's process orientation, with a concentration on developing divergent thinking skills, gives students, in a nonthreatening atmosphere, the foundation for sound decision making and problem solving. The program's major goal is to develop students' abilities to respond to problems or tasks more fluently, flexibly, originally, and elaborately. This goal directly aligns with Goal 3 of the National Goals for Education for students to be able to more effectively reason, solve problems, apply knowledge, and write and communicate orally.

Unique to this program are the sequentially ordered activities or lessons that teach a process of creative problem solving that is clearly understandable to students and teachers. These curriculum materials ($65 per manual) are obtained at a two-day training workshop conducted by the Institute staff. During training, teachers experience the format of the curriculum and the basic elements contributing to the program components: productive thinking, reinforcement, and consciousness raising.

Contact
Monika Steinberg, Director, Institute for Creative Education, Education Information and Resource Center (EIRC), 606 Delsea Drive, Sewell, NJ 08080. (609) 582-7000, FAX (609) 582-4206.

Developmental Funding: USOE ESEA Title IV-C.
JDRP No. 79-22 (7/11/79)


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