ThinkTank5: UGA
June 4-9, 2010

June 4-7 Stage 1
Four Minds for the Future: Creative,
Constructive, Critical, Connective

Event format
Intensive facilitated discussion combined with inspiring lectures

Target Audience
Experienced educators from multiple disciplines concerned with teaching visual creativity at the undergraduate level.

Focus
In Five Minds for the Future, Howard Gardner presents five interrelated modes of thinking as components in building a productive future. Inspired by this example, we will explore
our own four modes of thinking and develop connections among them.

The Creative Mind embraces risk, synthesizes prior knowledge, and develops new concepts.

The Constructive Mind transforms creative possibilities into tangible objects or actions.

The Critical Mind discerns strengths and weaknesses among multiple options and determines priorities.

The Connective Mind brings all of these possibilities together
and provides outreach to the larger community of educators at all levels.

June 5-9 Stage 2
Creative, Constructive, Critical and Connective
Thinking in Action

Event format
Hands-on workshops and facilitated discussion.

Target Audience
Emerging higher education foundations teachers (MFAs.
adjuncts, junior professors), emerging administrators, and
certified high school visual art teachers seeking to improve
their skills in teaching in contemporary lesson design.

Focus
Developing an authentic mission, creating a balanced
curriculum, connecting objectives to assessment, cultivating
creativity, collaborative learning, administration essentials
and other topics related to the “four minds.”

Outcome
Each participant will leave with a 150-page Teacher’s
Manual, expanded knowledge of curriculum design and
implementation, and an introduction to Foundations
program administration.

ThinkTank5 is sponsored by Integrative Teaching ThinkTank (ITT), the Lamar Dodd School of Art, and the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts