Paper presented at the third meeting of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, April 15-17, 1971, in Detroit, Michigan. (DS)

To lead creatively and effectively, a president must sometimes stick his neck out. (Author)

Describes how music can be used to evoke creative responses from students. (SW)

Argument for the abolishment of children's art contests in the school, commercial market, and community. Contributing factors to damaging effects on self-expression and ego are (1) arbitrariness and poor qualifications of judges, (2) false encouragement or misguided discouragement of interested student (3) unrepresentative work (4) lack of…

Procedures for selecting artistically gifted students include nominations, portfolio reviews, creativity tests, biographical inventories, and class observation. Because objective assessments are hard to make, schools should use a variety of identification procedures to discover the truly talented. Examples of checklist forms are given. (CS)

The program for academically gifted and talented at Kellogg Elementary School in Michigan includes an open house for parents. Students teach workshops in activities like painting and weaving, and parents become the students. Parents learn how to encourage creativity and how to help their children learn. (CS)

After viewing and discussing slides of Van Gogh's and Munch's paintings and studying the principles of color, middle school students had to execute two drawings, one showing any emotion and the second depicting an expressionistic self-portrait. (RM)