When I first began in this course during the first week of the new Fall semester, I had a lot of expectations and pre-conceived ideas coming into it, mostly around what the class would consist of. I imagined it would be a lot of delving into practical applications for the use of creative strategies and techniques in the classroom. I didn’t consider that it would also involve a lot of introspective work on my part, and I never really stopped to think about what I believed creativity was or how creative of a person I am, the focus for me is always on “how can what I’m learning help the…