Destroying the Box!
Presentation
What is Creativity???
“It’s a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at.”
What Creativity is Not!
Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?
I make straight As on every report card. Everyone thinks I am smart, but that doesn’t show how smart I am, that shows you I have learned how to play my teachers’ games. I don’t remember any of the stuff.
-8th grader, Somewhere in SC
“If we fail to understand creative thinking, we cannot hope to have an educational system that will provide creative individuals.”
-Root-Bernstein
-Root-Bernstein
”There’s a specific thing that school wants you to shine in (academics/testing) and if you don’t shine in that, you don’t shine at all. It’s like they are trying to make us all the same people.”
-Erin, junior HS student, California
Benefits of Being Creative
-Erin, junior HS student, California
Benefits of Being Creative
Benefits of Being Creative
Benefits of Being Creative
Side 1: How are you currently inviting creativity into your classroom?
Side 2: Which areas of your curriculum/class need more creativity?
Side 3: What could you do to foster your own creativity?
Side 4: Doodle… WHATEVER YOU WANT!!!
Top Side: The Vision: Where would you like to go with creativity in your classroom?
Bottom Side: The Foundation: Who in your class would benefit the most from “out of the box’ teaching?
Tips for Classroom Creativity!
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