Carroll teacher attends creativity workshop

Wyndham Traxler-Carter, art teacher in the Carroll schools, participated in "Extending Teacher Creativity: A Summer Workshop on Integration, Collaboration and Technology" on the campus of Indiana State University. Funding was provided by Lilly Endowment.

The workshop, held earlier this month, focused on curriculum integration and professional collaboration.

For the past 13 summers, ISU has hosted this opportunity for a competitively selected group of former Teacher Creativity Fellows.

The Teacher Creativity Fellowship Program was developed in 1987 as an opportunity for Indiana public school teachers to design creative projects for personal and professional renewal. Since the beginning of the program, more than 1,700 teachers have successfully competed for and reaped the benefits of this unusual personal and professional development experience. The effects of the program

are designed to reach far beyond a summer project and into the individual teacher's classroom.

The central goals of the workshop were:

v build upon and extend the original creativity experience;

v offer diverse and intense opportunities to practice integration and collaboration;

v upgrade fellows' experience and comfort with educational technology;

v spend some time in curriculum planning and development;

v hone fellows' writing skills through a collaborative writers' experience; and

v enhance artistic skills during a drawing workshop.