Use Your Bean and Think of the Possibilities!

For Students K-12

Students will enjoy participating in this energetic hands-on workshop. How to take charge of their thinking using energizing, fun strategies will stimulate their minds. As they work together learning and applying a variety of strategies, they will learn what it takes to become skillful thinkers and their self-confidence, independence, and imagination will be further developed. Your students will discover the power of the human brain! Critical and creative thinking skills are crucial to our lives. Topics covered include:

• The Nature of Thinking and Its Importance to Our Futures
• The Human Brain
• The Land of Creativity
• The Creative Environment
• Inhibitors to Creativity
• Divergent and Convergent, the dynamic duo
• Six Thinking Hats®
• Quick Thinks
• FFOE - Fluency, Flexibility, Elaboration and Originality
• Treeing for Flexibility and Elaboration
• The Creative Process … the EUREKA moment
• “If I Were in Charge of the World” by Judith Viorst
• SCAMPERing – the 7 keys to being creative
• Creative Connections
• YOU ... Be an Inventor!

Duration: Half day classroom workshop

Group Size: 20 – 25

Location: On-site at your school

Events: Children’s workshop, leadership club, national honor society, classroom seminar, business partnership, etc.

“When it comes to children and teaching, Franny McAleer is a remarkable presenter, speaker, and educator. The teachers and students alike were so captivated and involved with the workshop, they were sorry to see the time end. Due to the way Franny presents the lessons, the students were very eager, focused, and willing to participate in the activities. The session was very exciting, stimulating, and fun. This is something the students, as well as the teachers, will remember and use throughout their educational years. I would highly recommend having Franny McAleer into your classrooms for hands on excitement.”
——Teresa Davis, Coordinator of Gifted Services, Peoria Unified School District, Phoenix, AZ