BRAIN STORM LESSON PLAN

 

Teaching Materials:

• Brainstorming Lesson - (see below for printable lesson)

Procedure:

Teachers may either print out the lesson and have students read it themselves, or use the lesson for your own workplace cultural diversity lesson.

Excerpt from Lesson:

Brainstorming is a technique for generating new ideas on a topic, usually a problem that seems hard to solve. The rules for brainstorming are designed to help people be creative and spontaneous in their thinking so that as many ideas as possible, are generated. It was invented in 1941 by Alex Osborn, an advertising executive, who wanted to devise a method that would encourage people to spark off new ideas, without inhibitions. He defined brainstorming as "a conference technique by which a group attempts to find a solution for a specific problem by amassing all the ideas spontaneously by its members".

This process, he discovered, allowed far more ideas to be generated than in any normal discussion and that by producing more ideas, people had a better chance of finding useful ones: from quantity came quality. A key part of the process is to come up with wild or silly ideas because these in turn can spark off really useful ones.

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Lesson Printable Materials - Worksheets

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BRAIN STORMING LESSON
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