Margarita+Delgado

Email address: mdelgado@alliance.k12.ec


 * ASSIGNMENT 1 Scavenger Hunt **


 * //Group Members: //** Jillian Parsons, Gabby Larrea, Margarita Delgado, Monica Gamboa & Brent Becker

**//Place: //** Walk from Carondelet street (back parking lot of AAI), all the way by 10 de Agosto, NNUU, Republica del Salvador Streets ending in an Ice Cream Shop.

**Product: Video in DVD **

**Script: **

**__MY REFLECTIONS ON SCAVANGER HUNT __** **The walk we took, is a common way for me to ride home. This time the difference was that we had a goal and from the very first second we started having so interesting findings that it represented more than an assignment. I found our dear city so colorful and fun!!. I loved the fact that with a positive attitude creative life is just around you.. everywhere, in such a simple way or in such a complex way. Creation is alive.. creative thinking is waiting for us to let it blossom and work not only for our own benefit but for others. Quito is a piece of Art..so..to create I feel I just need to take a walk on its streets.. “This is my favorite assignment” I thought. ** **My husband is a camera man therefore he went with us to take the shoots we would point out and every finding we considered fitting the assignment goal. Personally, I like to produce videos and photography projects, and my main role was choosing some of the images, look for special concepts they may represent and guide the editing and final production. With the script prepared by all the team members, I classified the images and guided the editing to fit in the right time and moment of the production, that was a first draft. A second draft was prepared with all the team present and feedback from all was taken into account to finish the product. I love to coordinate, facilitate communication, administer and guide any process and support any idea coming out from the members of a team. Encouraging and enthusiasm are pluses I add to any collaboration project. ** **During this process, first, I started admiring the lady sharpening the knife in the sidewalk which for me was so interesting. The lock of cables over our heads showed a constant problem in our city. Looking at the bike chained to a light post as a problem solved was great. Hearing to the city sounds, cars, people, songs in the air, provided me with a deep sense of art. The climate was so perfect that finding a creative process, an inanimate thing communicating creativity and all the others, was simply inspiring. ** **One of the most encouraging things for me during this project was the enthusiastic collaboration of each members of the group, every duty assigned was accomplished with a wonderful attitude and in the perfect timing due to the short time frame we had to prepare this project. Every elements needed, such as pictures, interview script, transcript and translation, podcasts, music links, etc, everything was provided by each member of the team.. making the team work a delightful time. ** **Team work is very hard, but his time for me..it was just a pleasure……… ** **By Margarita Delgado ** YOU HAVE PROVIDED AN FINE REFLECTION OF YOUR PARTICIPATION, THE PROCESS, AND YOUR RESPONSE TO ITEMS. HOWEVER YOU NEVER SPOKE OF BARRON AND EISNER'S PROCESSES--MAKING CONNECTIONS, SEEING THINGS IN NEW WAYS, TAKING RISKS, CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS, AND SEEING PATTERNS AS REQUIRED IN THE ASSIGNMENT.

**ASSIGNMENT 2: ** = ASSIGNMENT 2 = = APPLICATION OF CREATIVE STRATEGIES =

APPLICATION OF CREATIVE STRATEGIES IN SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
Gabriela Bustamante Margarita Delgado

= LESSON 1 =

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">These strategies will be used with teachers in grade level meetings to work on schedules for next school year. We may have to change what we have this year.
 * 1) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">Discipline: **<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">**School Administration** ** Topic: ****Scheduling**
 * 2) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">STRATEGY **<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">: **Problem Solving, Morphological Matrix**

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">**__1. PROBLEM: WORK ON SCHEDULES 1 through 12th grades.__**

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">**Objective:** Have teachers analyze what goes into an ideal school schedule, and compare to what we currently have. Decide on the schedule for next year.

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">1. Have teachers write down what the perfect schedule in an ideal world would have
 * <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">DAY 1: **

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">2. Share ideas among other teachers in their grade level

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">3. Brainstorming: what new ideas can we come up with for next year's schedule (No criticism, Freewheeling, Many ideas welcome, piggy backing on other ideas is welcome)

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">**DAY 2:** <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">1. List the attributes of our current schedule and possible modifications or changes

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">2. Morphological matrix: by using the current schedule's attributes, work out a matrix using student distribution, hours, subjects and teachers.

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">**DAY 3:** <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">Talk about results of our findings regarding our current schedule and possible schedule changes. Designate a team to work on trying something absolutely new, and another to work on modifying and making changes to our current schedule.

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">**DAY 4:** <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">Decide on best option.

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">Assess the option that was chosen. Create a survey that can be answered by teachers at the end of first semester and a second one at the end of II semester to receive feedback on the new schedule and improve the next one.

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">The activity helped the teachers to realize the different points of view from their colleagues.
 * __<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">REFLECTION: __**

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">By sharing their thoughts, many reached to the conclusion the changing the schedules drastically might represent a deeper problem. Some accepted that some important changes might contribute to a better accomplishment of goals on the academic fields. <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">Next time, the discussion time can be extended because teachers showed their need to share their thought and exchange good ideas to optimize the academic time with their students.

I THINK YOU HAVE APPLIED THESE STRATEGIES EXTREMELY WELL TO USE TO SOLVE A REAL PROBLEM. BRAVO!! I DO BELIEVE THAT FACULTY SHOULD HAVE A STRUCTURE TO USE CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING TO DEVELOP ANSWERS TO PROBLEMATIC SITUATIONS.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 24px;">LESSON 2 **
 * 1) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">Discipline: ****<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">School Administration <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;"> Topic: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">Faculty and Staff Handbook **
 * 2) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">STRATEGY **<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">: Brainstorming, SCAMPER

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">**PROBLEM:** How to get teachers to become familiar with our new revised Teacher Handbook

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">**Objective:** Teachers do not usually read and learn about the teacher profile and responsibilities. We have worked on a new handbook for next year and require teachers to read it.

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">**DAY 1** <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">Strategy: The Wonderful World of Words.

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">Teachers will be asked to go through the new Faculty & Staff handbook and pick out words for different scenes from the teacher profile and responsibilities, then, they will represent different scenes in groups, they would act the problem and the solution. This would act as an ice breaker and encourage creative activities for teachers. SUPER IDEA!!!!

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">**DAY 2:** <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">Teachers will work in groups looking through the Teacher Manual and write down questions or comments on the most common issues that arise frequently through the school year (ie. Abcences, parent-teachers conferences procedures, etc.)

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">**DAY 3:** <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">SCAMPER strategy to help teachers address issues in the handbook which may cause them stress or find solutions to deal with certain

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">responsibilities that worry them.

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">Teachers will work in groups.

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">**DAY 4:** <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">Teachers will share their problems and their scamper strategy.

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">Assessment: Teachers will demonstrate that they know the handbook by talking about the contents in the handbook. WILL THEY BE ABLE TO MODIFY THE TEACHER HANDBOOK ACCORDING TO THE IDEAS THEY DEVELOPED? IF NOT, THIS WILL BE A VERY FRUSTRATING EXPERIENCE.

<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">By acting the different topics on the F&S Handbook, teachers were able to memorize the main points of official procedures and mandatory steps on their most common concerns. <span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">It is evident that the reason for Faculty not to be completely informed about the internal rules is not only time, but the high amount of information discouraged them to read the Handbook. Creative and fun activities in specific Faculty and Staff meetings help to strengthen the knowledge of internal rules and procedures. I AGREE BUT LET'S MAKE SURE THESE ACTIVITIES LEAD THEM TO DEAL WITH THEIR CONCERNS CREATIVELY NOT JUST BE "FORCED" INTO COMPLIANCE.
 * __<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro',serif; font-size: 16px;">REFLECTION: __**

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** 1. PRE ASSIGNMENT FOR CRS 560: Module One: ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; text-align: justify;">NAME: Margarita Delgado Perez SCHOOL: Alliance Academy International – Elementary Office DATE: May 19, 2012 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; text-align: justify;">[|www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html] <span style="color: #646464; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">3. **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">Write a summary of five main points you find compelling from these articles. ** YOU CHOSE FINE POINTS TO PONDER. **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">4. Discuss how you nurture creativity in your students currently. Provide concrete examples. ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I work in the Elementary Office, so I do not teach and therefore I do not nurture creativity in students. Yet, I work with them, parents and teachers and It is important to be creative when I need to communicate to the people I serve and see every day. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I have changed almost all the processes in the office; I’ve tried to be more effective at the time of providing information and being the support needed for all faculty and staff. Because our school is now 80 years old, many processes were the same from many years ago. I prepared new forms, translated them, uploaded in a shared link for teachers to be able to find them and download them. I changed the colors in the office and moved all the furniture to provide a more comfortable place. Instead of going all over the school delivering papers and information, I have developed several templates I use often to effectively communicate with the faculty and staff in AAI. GLAD TO SEE YOU ARE USING YOUR OWN CREATIVITY TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY OF YOUR OFFICE. **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">5. Finally list three understandings or skills you would like to learn in this course on Creativity. ** I HOPE YOUR SKILLS WERE IMPROVED BY THE READINGS, ACTIVITIES, AND DISCUSSIONS IN THE COURSE. I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT YOU HAVE THE TOOLS TO MAKE A CREATIVE IMPACT PERSONALLY AND PROFESSIONALLY.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 37.3333px;">ASSIGNMENT 3. Class Participation and reflections **
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">Read: **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">[|The creativity crisis (Newsweek) « Scott Berkun] OK
 * 2) **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">View Ken Robinson’s Ted Talk. **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';"> OK
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">Teachers need to re-learn how to develop and teach creative problem-solving programs. It needs to start from them, from us as Faculty and Staff working with children in order to nurture creativity in students.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">After changing our life style in educational institutions (by opening our minds into creative innovations), then we need to move into creative projects on our own environment, classrooms, labs, facilities, there’s a need to breath, hear, see, a creative world for our students.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';"> Once the setting is fixed we need to involve into innovative projects and design project goals to be accomplished through a certain amount of time.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">Technology is providing many many tools for children to learn, receive and accumulate acknowledge, but we are the ones responsible to help them develop their own ideas, creations, dreams, into huge and fruitful outcomes.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">School administrators need to provide its faculty and staff the time, resources and training to improve every creative program and encourage its staff into creative and professional careers that will affect in a positive way to their students.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">I would like to develop creativity at stressful moments, be quick and creative at the time I serve and process my work. Creative ways of communicating, rules, procedures, school norms, etc.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">Nowadays we are facing a sad reality in our students; they are been raised by other people but their parents. Counseling is necessary more than never in the past. So I would like to have skills to provide that piece of hope and care to our students, faculty and staff in a creative way and put a seed of curiosity and interest in other good things apart from TV and movies.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">I would like to have a deeper acknowledge of creativity, how to be more creative and how to improve what I create.


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Monday May 21, 2012 **

=2. Group Definition of Creativity - Class Work:=

By: Margarita Delgado, Jillian Parsons, Gabriela Bustamante, Brent Becker, Ana Maria Egas and Belen Flores
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3. Joshua in the box. Individual Reflection
RISK TAKING AND WILLINGNESS TO TRY THINKS IN NEW WAYS OVERCOMES MANY BLOCKS.

=4. TED talk Ad - 11. Matt Cutts ** “[|Try Something New For 30 Days] **= =<span style="background-color: #0b1c90; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">TUESDAY <span style="background-color: #0b1c90; color: #a600ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">NIGHT <span style="background-color: #0b1c90; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> LIVE =
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tuesday, May 22, 2012 **

By Gabriela Bustamante, Ana Maria Egaz and Margarita Delgado


FUN INVITATION. YOU GOT US ALL ENGAGED!!!


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Thursday, May 24, 2012 **

=**__<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">5. Math Problem 3 __**=
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">Group members: **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">Tricia Bastidas, Monica Gamboa, Dayana Boland, Carla Amores, Gabriela Larrea, Margarita Delgado, Veronica Perez, Ximena Paola Branganza, Liza Barba.

==//<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">ZACK the Massai Pre Warrior with witch doctor powers ** //== <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> The caller is complaining about his constipated cow causing a lack of manure for the fields. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> To cure, the caller will need to purchase: <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> 4 shiny beads, 1 bead = $ 1,00 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> 5 shell, 1 shell = $1,00 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> 2 metal medals, 1 medal = $15 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">1 rabbit’s tail = $ 5,00 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> 1 lock of human hair = $ 0,10 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> 5 red beans, 1 bean = $ 0,25 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> 1 toe bone of a bat = $ 100, 00 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> 5 shavings of eyebrow hair, 1= $0,10

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> = = =**6. PPT Creative Story**=

by: Jillian Parsons, Margarita Delgado and Ana Maria Egaz
I HAD SUCH FUN WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU ON YOUR HIGHLY IMAGINATIVE MATH PROBLEM. WHEN WE ADD A CREATIVE ELEMENT EVEN MATH CAN BE FUN!!!


 * ASSIGNMENT 4. Creativity Socratic Seminar Prep. Sheet **

** Ted talk .“ ** [|**Try Something New For 30 Days**] ** “ **

 * By: **** Matt Cutts **
 * Matt tells us his great experience of 30-days challenges. He challenged himself to accomplish some of the things he had always wanted to do, and..he did it. Becoming and adventurous, losing weight, write a novel, are some of his dream that became true after he did them in the 30-day challenge. Worth it to make a try! **
 * 1) ** In my TED talk, a 30-days challenge is doable for everyone. What 30-days challenge would you take in order to improve your students’ discipline in your class? **
 * 2) ** Matt Cutts mentions that one of the biggest blocks to creativity is procrastination and excuses. What are the most common excuses students give when a challenge is presented to them and what your answer would be to those excuses? **

=Article: The Creative Personality= by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

FINE QUESTIONS BUT WHERE IS YOUR DISCUSSION OF YOUR ARTICLE AND QUESTIONS COMING FROM THE UNDERSTANDINGS CONVEYED IN YOUR ARTICLE?