Teaching Fluency in Gifted Classrooms: Generating Ideas is an Important Part of Creative Problem Solving

Teaching Fluency in Gifted Classrooms: Generating Ideas is an Important Part of Creative Problem Solving

When teaching creative problem solving, it is important that students understand the concept of fluency, the ability to generate a lot of ideas on a given topic.

Fluency is one element of creative problem solving, and it is a foundation element that should be taught early in the problem solving process. Combined with flexibility and frequency, fluent idea generation is a basic step that students should feel comfortable taking when asked to solve problems, and the gifted classroom is the perfect place to learn such techniques.

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