Torrance Center Professional Development Sessions
Introduction
The Torrance Center for Creativity offers training and expertise on a variety of topics on teaching for creativity and creativity in education using multidisciplinary perspectives. We also offer flexible professional training tailored to fit the needs of your district, company, or organization. For more details about specific course topics, please see the list below.Courses
- Nurturing Creativity in Educational Contexts: Applying the 5-Ps Approach
This interactive workshop will help teachers create classrooms that promote creative mindsets in all students. In adopting the 5-Ps approach, teachers will learn to consider multiple perspectives in combination at the level of the person, process, product, place, and physiology in order to understand how creativity works and how to apply this knowledge to spark the creative impulse in their students. - Creativity-Based Lesson Planning
In this PD workshop, we will train teachers how to design and implement elements of a creativity-based curriculum by analyzing how certain activities encourage student creativity, as well as identify practices to evaluate student performance and the effectiveness of activity design, such as rubric construction and reflection activities. - Unleashing Your Creative Brain
Dr. Anna Abraham uses her 2024 book, The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths, to show teachers how to create classroom experiences that cultivate creative mindsets in their students by examining the core truths of the creative brain at work and how we can apply what we know about the creative brain to nurture creativity in a school setting. - Using the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) in the Classroom
While the TTCT is most well-known for its use as an assessment tool for gifted identification, the components can easily be applied in the classroom. In this workshop, you will learn what the different components measure and how to apply the specific elements to designing classroom activities and assignments.
Past Professional Development Sessions
| Session | School, district, or organization |
|---|---|
| Effectively Evaluating Student Products for Creativity | Fulton County, March 2026 |
| Not just Glitter and Glue for the Gifted: Teaching for Creativity is a Necessity for All | Clarke County School District, November 2025 |
| Developing Creativity-Based Lessons for K-8 Gifted Services | Clarke County School District, September 2025 |
| Unleashing Your Creative Brain | Los Angeles Unified School District, May 2025 |
| Torrance Center Professional Development | Fulton County Schools, March 2024 |
| Classroom Strategies for Teaching for Creativity | City Schools of Decatur, April 2023 |
| Extending Project-Based Learning to Teach for Creativity | Social Circle City Schools, March 2023 |
| Teaching for Creativity | Clarke County School District, January 2023 |
| The Torrance Toolbox: Best Practices for Designing a Creative Learning Environment | Western Central Ohio Association for Gifted Children, January 2022 |
| Overview of the TTCT Verbal | Clarke County School District, October 2021 |
| Creative Problem Solving and Future Problem Solving | Habersham County Schools, February 2020 |
| Creative Strategies, Creative Potential | Visiting Scholars Workshop: University of Montana, August 2019 |
Locations
- University of Georgia main campus in Athens
- University of Georgia Gwinnett campus
- Zoom
We consider requests for on-site training at your location on a case-by-case basis. Typically, we are able to travel up to 60 miles from the University of Georgia main campus.
Cost
| Participant Count | 2 hours | 3 hours | 4 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up to 25 | $100 | $150 | $200 |
| Additional 26-50 | $80 | $120 | $160 |
| Additional 51-75 | $65 | $100 | $130 |
| Additional 76-100 | $50 | $80 | $100 |