# Teaching for Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity, and Success  ## Metadata - Author: [[Robert J. Sternberg, Elena Grigorenko, and Linda Jarvin]] - Full Title: Teaching for Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity, and Success - Category: #books ## Highlights - Instruction that balances different types of activities addressing different students’ strengths (memory, analytical, creative, practical, and wise thinking skills) will be more motivating to students simply because it makes the material to be learned more interesting. ([Location 267](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B013CS9T2Q&location=267)) - Brainstorming is a creative thinking activity in which students generate many ideas (fluency), different ideas (flexibility), unusual ideas (originality), and/or interesting ideas (elaboration). To encourage fluency: encourage quantity not quality (defer judgment); push for more ideas (e.g., add to the list); keep it going (no conversations). To encourage originality: think up all the usual ideas first (a “brain drain”); try to add ideas no one else might think of. ([Location 746](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B013CS9T2Q&location=746)) - However, there are effective ways to infuse activities into mathematics learning experiences to develop students’ creative thinking. For example, when students create their own number patterns or tessellations1, they use creative thinking. ([Location 787](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B013CS9T2Q&location=787)) - “God helps them that help themselves.” Here, Franklin asserts his belief in the power of individuals to determine the course of their lives. In general, his maxims are concerned with how to live a productive, prosperous, and healthy life and are directed at matters that are secular, rather than spiritual. For Franklin, living a good life depends more on one’s ability to exercise diligence and self-control than on God’s sympathy. ([Location 1094](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B013CS9T2Q&location=1094)) - In the end-of-unit assessment, students are given the following task: “Pretend that you have a special friend who happens to be a light beam. Your friend plans to visit you. You want your friend to have a good time, so you design a tour that will enable your friend to experience reflection, refraction, and absorption. Describe three things you would plan for your friend.” ([Location 1602](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B013CS9T2Q&location=1602)) - What we can do, however, is to encourage students to develop three wisdom-based thinking skills: (1) thinking reflectively, (2) thinking dialogically, and (3) thinking dialectically. ([Location 1892](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B013CS9T2Q&location=1892))