Teaching for Creativity in Science
In my first year of teaching high school biology, 1966, I found a large pile of scientific magazines in my…
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Creativity: The Case of Liz Lerman
I recently attended three events associated with the biennial Dance in Vancouver Conference, sponsored by the Scotiabank Dance Centre. Coming into art…
What is Creativity?
Detail of bronze Eternal Flame with colour scheme inverted. What is creativity? What makes the difference between creative people…
The deep meaning of creativity
Some number of nestling, almost fledgling robins. The exact number is below. The Deep Meaning of Creativity This year, for…
The Notion of Creativity
The Notion of Creativity In my work as a university professor, questions about where ideas come from were central to everything…
Stories about stories
Lee Gass doing what he’s been doing for about 75 years: telling a story. Photo by David Shackleton. STORIES ABOUT…
The Most Important Silences Have Been My Own
The most important silences in my teaching career have generally been my own. Professors can’t profess while students conduct important business…
Walking on Water
A Eureka Experience in my Development as a Teacher In 1968 I became Assistant Director of an Academic Year Institute for…
Recursion
Recursion began as a meditation on a mathematical concept, recursion, an important idea in my research on animal intelligence and my teaching….
The birth of a sculptor
The image shows Lee Gass at two stages in his sculpting career; when he was learning to carve Ivory soap and…
A Letter to Martha Piper
For several years around the turn of the century, atmospheric physicist Douw Steyn and I co-taught a course in UBC’s…
Secrets of Silence in the Classroom
Interviewing me for my first teaching job, at a high school, Ernie Wutzke, the Principal, took me to visit the room…
It’s not just a matter of technique
In The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer argued that to “teach” goes far beyond applying methodologies, technologies, approaches, and tricks to make people learn, but something very much…
First and Last Words from the Trip Director
This is a handout for every student in every course I taught. In this course we approach learning in a…
Report on the Special Programme in Science
June 1998 Last summer, early in discussions about my returning to Singapore for an extended stay, the Singaporean Ministry of…
Thoughts for the Camosun Community
I submitted a version of this report to the Camosun College faculty after giving two talks there in Fall 2006. Thank you…
Two Stories about Roger Donaldson
Two Stories about Roger Donaldson Interdisciplinary undergraduate programs, especially highly interactive ones like UBC’s Science One, invite students to live near…
Architects of Their Own Education: Stories about Three Students
Relatively late in my career, about when we realized Science One would be successful, several ideas about teaching and learning…
Frank Spear and the Pea Seeds
In late August 1967, I was a brand-new high school biology teacher in the suburbs of San Francisco, east of…
Reflections on the notion of 3M Currency
Ron Stoltz, Jeanette Boman, Tim Pychyl, and Lee Gass from the 1999 cohort of 3M National Teaching Fellows a year later when…
The Saw Filer Guy: Heroes, Masters, and Wizards
During my PhD studies at Oregon I became obsessed with how people get good at what they do. I guess…
Buzz Holling: Heroes, Masters, and Wizards
Buzz Holling and Trajectory of Resilience. Sculpture and photo by Lee Gass. For my first few years at UBC my…
Repetition, precision and chaos
Sometime in the late ’70s, MSc student Dave Marmorek, now Lead Scientist and Director of ESSA Technologies Ltd, an ecological and social systems…
What does it take to be a deer?
Bucky the deer eating leaves from a freshly felled alder tree. Photos by Lee Gass. Our neighbor Diane was working…
A small matter of maternity
I backed our riding mower out of its tent-shelter the other day to do some repairs, and as the mower came…
Looking Up
Looking Up Photos by Lee Gass This piece of granite leaned against my studio wall for a couple of years,…
The Case of Gerhard Herzberg
The only way to make new ideas happen, I think, the only method of creation, is to go into our studios…