Building Students' Problem-Solving Skills Through Complex Challenges

If a fundamental goal of schooling is to help prepare young people for the unknowable future, then how might we provide our students with learning experiences that prepare them to creatively respond to uncertainty? Presented by Ronald Beghetto, author of What If? Building Students' Problem-Solving Skills Through Complex Challenges, this webinar will provide K–12 educators with practical strategies for addressing this question. More specifically, participants will learn

1. How to foster "possibility thinking" to help students open up their thinking and learning in creative ways.
2. The process of lesson unplanning, a way of transforming existing lessons, activities, and assignments into more complex classroom challenges.
3. Four basic action principles that teachers and students can use to design and solve complex challenges both inside and outside the classroom.
4. The steps for creating legacy challenges, which require students to identify a problem, develop a solution, and ensure that their work makes a positive and lasting contribution beyond the walls of the classroom.

Ronald A. Beghetto is an internationally recognized expert on creativity in educational settings. He is professor of educational psychology in the Neag School of Education and director of the Innovation House at the University of Connecticut. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Creative Behavior and a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts.

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