Webinar | Learning and Teaching Creativity In and Out of the Classroom With H-IQ

Speakers

Dan Hunter is a playwright, songwriter, teacher and founding partner of Hunter Higgs, LLC. Hunter is the inventor of H-IQ, the first assessment of individual imagination and ideation. He is the co-author of A New Measure of Imagination Ability: Anatomical Brain Imaging Correlates, published March 22, 2016 in The Frontiers of Psychology, an international, peer-reviewed journal.

Hunter has 25 years of experience in politics and arts advocacy, serving as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities (MAASH), a statewide advocacy and education group, and as Director of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, a cabinet appointment requiring Senate confirmation. He has also taught creative writing at Boston University since 2000.

About This Webinar

How do we prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist using technologies that haven’t even been invented? Today, change is constant, rapid, and unpredictable, so the most important skill we can teach students is effective imagination to enable them to adapt to the unexpected. Imagination is the source of all ideas and creativity, the one 21st century skill that is that is rarely taught or practiced. The debate on teaching creativity focuses on what the schools, teachers and administrators, need to do. However, students do not learn creativity by watching and listening. They learn by generating their own ideas and then exploring those ideas through trial and error. Teaching creativity is like teaching how to ride a bike, you can describe it or guide it, but eventually, each individual must learn to ride on their own.

In this seminar we will address:
• How to generate ideas
• How to design assignments to improve imagination
• How to assess creative progress
• How to improve your own imagination
• How to teach creativity

This seminar will inspire your own creativity in your life and in your classroom.
This webinar is part of Share My Lesson's 2025 Virtual Conference!

Date: March 27, 2025 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Location: Online
Cost: Free
Credit: 1 Hour
Attributes: English-Language Learners (ELL), Gifted and Talented, Students with Disabilities
Subject: Arts • Career and Technical Education • English Language Arts • Professional Learning — Curricular Tools, Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: Grades K-12, Professional Development

Professional Credit

Share My Lesson webinars are available for one-hour of PD credit. A certificate of completion will be available for download at the end of your session that you can submit for your school's or district's approval. Please verify eligibility with Share My Lesson.