teaching creativity. they were all born with creative minds

Teaching Creativity

They were all born with creative minds. .

School Policy For Creativity

Quality Of Teaching

Creative teachers are teachers who :

-Encourage students to engage and interact , to discuss and debate .

-Know their students very well and find ways of stimulating the creativity in each .

-Give students the opportunity to exercise their brain.

-Stimulate curiosity and imagination .

-Reinforce unusual ideas and responses . -Involve students in goal setting ,planning , doing and evaluating .

-Relate learning to the real- world , cultures and fun .

-Teach thinking skills by using various tools and techniques( brain-storming / mind-mapping/ problem solving / monographic box / fishbone /SWOT/ PBL ..

The impact on students“ These skills helped me learn quickly ” Fatma Khleel . Grade 10 “ Fishbone technique helped me a lot in analyzing the causes of " poverty " and "

racism " in English literature and TOK ” Aisha Al sada . Grade 12

“ They really break the boring atmosphere of the lesson and make us all think and interact ” Ghalia Abdullah . Grade 10

“ Now I'm using brainstorming in all the exams specially English and Arabic and I even used it for writing my personal essay which was required by the university I applied for ” Al Anood Al Ansari . Grade 12

“ I'm applying them at home to organize my thoughts , come up with new and unusual ideas and to solve problems ” Haya Al Thani . Grade 12

“ Brainstorming and SWOT analysis helped me in thinking of the right project for the business fair. Every thing was unusual about it. We called it “The scary Café ’’ and we decorated it in a scary way . That day we attracted all the visitors , sold a lot and made a lot of money .” Najla Al.Kuwari . Grade 12

Brainstorming together with the skills of making jell candles which we were taught by our art teacher helped us to make two models of cells for the biology project .One was made of jell , the other of candies . We felt creative !

Aisha Al Hajri .Grade 10