Visualizing my style as teacher and as a learner would look something like this. Learning and teaching with Heart, Head and Hands. The Head stands for the cognitive side of learning, the knowledge. The Hands stand for the affective side of learning, actively learning skills by training. And the Heart stands for passion and empathy. If  you listen to your heart and passion, you will find self actualization and happiness in life.

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Creative thinking is a deliberate thinking process. Most people think creatively, but are not aware of what they are doing and why they do it.

As a designer I use a lot of different models and methods, without knowing the name or the theory behind it. In order to teach this deliberate thinking skills to my students, I had to become aware of my internal creative thinking processes in order to teach to others how it works and why...  Digging in the 60-plus years of research on theories, concepts and initiatives in creativity education helped me to realize and articulate the importance of developing creative thinking skills to be prepared for the uncertainty of the future.

Mark Twain once noted that "The difference between a word and the right word is like the difference between lightening and lightening bug." In other words, there's often a big difference!  The same might be said of the distinctions between teaching the content of creativity or using it as process to teach another content creatively.  In regard to the former, words like "concepts, principles, skills or vocabulary" appear.  For the latter, more descriptive words like "fun, interesting, exciting or different" are used to describe the learning of concepts, principles, skills or vocabulary of another content.