teaching creativity and teaching for creativity
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Teaching Creativity and Teaching forCreativity
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What is Creativity?
The Definition of Creativity:
The application of knowledge andskills in new ways, to achieve values
outcomes (NCSL)
Imaginative activity fashioned so as
to produce outcomes that are both
original and of value, (NAACE)
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Features of Creativity:
Using Imagination
Pursuing Purposes Being Original
Judging Value
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Creative Teaching
We define creative teaching in two
ways:
1. Teaching creatively
2. Teachingforcreativity
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Tasks in teaching for creativity
Encouraging
Identifying
Fostering
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Encouraging
Highly creative people in any field
are often driven by strong self-belief
in their abilities in that field. Having
a positive self-image as a creative
person can be fundamental to
developing creative performance
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Identifying
Creative achievement is often
driven by a persons love of a
particular instrument, for the feel of
the material, for the excitement of
a style of work that catches the
imagination. Identifying young
peoples creative abilities include
helping them to find their creative
strengths.
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Fostering
Creativity draws from many
ordinary abilities and skills rather
than one special gift or talent. Thus
the development of many common
capacities and sensitivities can help
to foster creativity.
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Recognizing and becoming
knowledgeable about the creative
process can also help foster creative
development; teaching for creativityhelps young people in
understanding what is involved in
being creative and becoming moresensitive in their own creative
processes.
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Teaching for creativity aims at encouraging
1. autonomyon both sides: a feeling of
ownership and control over the ideas that
are being offered (Woods 1995:3);
2. authenticity in initiatives and responses,
deciding for oneself on the basis of ones
own judgment;
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3. openness to new and unusual ideas, and to
a variety of methods and approaches;
4. respect for each other and for the ideas
that emerge;
5. fulfillment: from each a feeling of
anticipation, satisfaction, involvement and
enjoyment of the creative relationship.
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Trust
Above all there has to be a relationship of trust.Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-
confidence, independence of mind, and thecapacity to think for oneself. The aim is to enableyoung people to be more effective in handlingfuture problems and objectives; to deepen and
broaden awareness of the self as well as theworld; and to encourage openness and reflexivityas creative learners.
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Self-directed Learning
Teaching for creativity encourages a sense of
responsibility for learning. It aims at a growing
autonomy involving goal-setting and planning,
and the capacity for self-monitoring self-
assessment and self-management.
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Creativity itself is a mode of
learning. It is distinctive in
the combination of three
features:
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A. It involves a thoughtful
playfulnesslearning through
experimental play. It is serious play
conjuring up, exploring anddeveloping possibilities and then
critically evaluating and testing
them.
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B. It involves a special flexibility in
which there may be a conscious
attempt to challenge the
assumptions and preconceptions ofthe selfan unusual activity in
which there is an active effort to
unlearn in order to learn afresh.
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C. This process is driven by the
find, introduce, construct or
reconstruct something new. It seeks
actively to expand the possibilitiesof any situation. In this sense the
learning of creative thoughts is not
neutral; it has a bias towards theinnovative.
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Tips for building
creative learning
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Start simply, build progressively
Find easy ways in to creative learning. Start with the classroom environment.
Move on to how pupils and staff use speech and questions. Keep it
manageable, keep the focus tight. Show and share tangible changes. This
will develop confidence to go further.Be a creative advocate. Create a presentation or materials that you can
use both within your school to convince colleagues and out of school. This
will help to build a whole-school ethos around creativity.
Focus on one area at a time, for example, in developing more creative
learning in maths, and use this to raise awareness and encourage staff tothink about applications in other subject areas and spaces in the school.
Organise an Enquiring Minds-type project where pupils have an opportunity
to negotiate the aim of the project and are instrumental in designing
how it is carried out (see: www.enquiringminds.org.uk).
Set up an inventors club after school.
Transform one small area in the school as a space designed for creativity
and imagination. Make sure that the pupils have some ownership of the
project.
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Critical Thinking and SelfAwareness
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Scriven and Paul (1996), define
critical thinking as "the intellectually
disciplined process of actively and
skillfully conceptualizing, applying,analyzing, synthesizing, and
evaluating information gathered
from, or generated by, observation,experience, reflection, reasoning, or
communication, as a guide to belief
and action."
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Through critical thinking and self-
awareness, one can understand the
relationship between thoughts and
emotions. Although it is assumedthat they are independent, the truth
is that feelings are based on some
level of thought, and thoughtsgenerate from some level of feeling.
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Highlighting Self-awareness
* Perceptions*Assumptions
* Prejudices* Values* Breaking Habits*A New Point of View* Evaluation
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Pupils need to be thoroughly
engaged with their own learning,
and provided with plenty of
opportunity to practise their skills,talk about their learning
experiences, reflect on their
strengths and weaknesses and to beactively involved in evaluating their
own development.
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Whether you decide to mediate the
skills, dispositions and attitudes
contained within the framework by
adopting a stand-alone skillsprogramme, an infusion approach,
or by introducing a mixed model,
here are seven classroom strategiesthat will underpin the success of
any approach:
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Seven Implications for Classroom Teaching
1) Set open-ended challenges2) Make thinking important
3) Make thinking explicit4)Ask rich questions5) Enable collaborative learning6) Promote self-management7) Make connections across contexts
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What it takes to be a creativeteacher is what it takes to be a
creative artist:
You need creativity and ability toexpress yourself and your emotions.
Some teachers have huge amount ofknowledge, but they can't express it
or create the spark in their studentsto learn.
Conclusion
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Thank You