Imagination is more important than knowledge

Albert Einstein

Defining creativity?•

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Creativity Cafe Share thoughts and ideas with other self-proclaimed artists through this digital community resource.www.creativity.net

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Ten Steps for Boosting Creativity This Creative Pages Web site lists steps to improve creativity including a downloadable software on brainstorming. This page also contains information on how to conduct brainstorming and links to related resources on the Internet. www.jpb.com/creative/creative.html

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• Singapore - Early Childhood Learning Conference Check out seminar highlights, speaker biographies and registration information for this conference that covers educational methods and materials. www.creativity-channel.com

Ten Steps for Boosting Creativity This Creative Pages Web site lists steps to improve creativity including a downloadable software on brainstorming. This page also contains information on how to conduct brainstorming and links to related resources on the Internet. www.jpb.com/creative/creative.html

EspressIt Online Creativity and Project Center Offers thousands of projects that can be customized and printed on your printer or professionally printed through our business center. www.printmaster.com

Camping Magazine - Fostering Creativity Read about the benefits that arise in the total camp environment from fostering creativity. www.findarticles.comCreativity For Kids - Toys "R" Us Purchase arts and crafts toys and supplies for young children. Products include Beeswax Candles and Beehavoir Kit and Create Your Own Scrapbook. www.amazon.com

Hotel & Motel Mgt. - Creativity Counts when Filling Positions January 2001 feature, describes recruiting methods used by hotel owners and operators. From the FindArticles archive. www.findarticles.com

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Aims• to illuminate (issues and opportunities)• to inform (about QCA creativity programme)• to engage (with head teachers)• to plan (to consider players, strategies and

programmes)

Lesson Plan• Creative Curriculum Plan G2(present to & talk with)• Cultural Curriculum Plan G1 (present to & talk with)

• notes available from mvince@buckscc.gov.ukwww.danchina.net

The Creativity Context…in the 21st Century, we are going to see the world increasingly influenced by innovation and creative minds. Our future depends on our creativity.

Right Hon.Tony Blair

The Creativity Context…but also because employers increasingly emphasise not just academic qualifications but skills and attitudes such as enterprise, innovation, teamwork, creativity and flexibility.

Estelle Morris Green Paper, DfES, February 2002

The Creativity ContextPeople who have bright ideas and have the practical abilities to turn them into successful products and services are vital, not just to the creative industries but to every sector of business.

Margaret Talboys, Senior Subject Officer: QCA Creativity Project

education + creativity = national wealth

National Curriculum Aims The National Curriculum aims include promoting pupils’ abilities to:• think creatively and critically• solve problems• become creative, innovative and enterprising• respond positively to opportunities, challenges

and responsibilities• manage risk and cope with change and adversity

Are we/is it succeeding in this?

QCA Creativity ProjectThe QCA creativity project is related to broad goals for education to develop creativity, innovation and enterprise. It seeks to develop creativity throughout the curriculum and will provide:• advice to the Secretary of State for Education

and Skills and for Culture, Media and Sport; • guidance for all schools on ways to promote

pupils’ creativity across the National Curriculum

Scope of the project • Year 1: Review of literature and research (2000)• Year 2: Working with teacher groups across all

subjects (2001)• Year 3: Aim is to produce materials in all subjects

for teachers in late summer 2002 (now autumn 2002)

Trialling and evaluation by interested schools in Autumn 2002

• Year 4: Review and publication of materials and further exemplars in Summer 2003 on website showing the National Curriculum in Action

Support for the project• Advisory group of headteachers and key figures• Steering group from DfES, DCMS, DTI and OFSTED,

Chair Lord Puttnam.• Internal working group of QCA subject officers• Teachers and pupils in case study schools• It draws heavily on ‘All Our Futures’

The Report of The National Advisory Committee on

Creative and Cultural Education

NACCCE

All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture &

Education

• First published in 1999

• Summary published in Sept 2000

• Chair Professor Ken Robinson• sold more copies than any other education report.• like Arts in Schools(1982) it is a seminal text.

ISBN 1 845 6055560• defines creative and cultural curriculum as different

but intimately related areas neither of which are defined by subjects.

Four features of creativity• thinking or behaving imaginatively• imaginative activity is purposeful• it generates something original• the outcome is of value

Creativity = Using Imagination• a form of serious play directed to some creative

purpose• looking afresh - a new perspective• envisaging alternatives• combining and reinterpreting• making unusual connections

Creativity = Pursuing Purpose• embodies action and purpose• is applied imagination• people are actively engaged and deliberately acting• but new purposes emerge through the process (of

being creative)

Creativity = Being Original• original relative to individual• original relative to peers• original or historic originality

Creativity = Judging Value• originality is never enough - to be creative implies

value in relation to task in hand• creative activity will involve risk, failure and dead

ends • judgement of value and critical thinking must

complement generative thought and activity

QCA Creativity Project Has focused on asking:

1 What does pupils’ creative thinking and behaviour look like in the different subjects and aspects of the curriculum?

2 What is the role of the teacher in promoting pupils’ creativity?

3 What are the features of a creative learning environment?

QCA Creativity Project Examples from case study schools show how teachers can recognise and respond to evidence of pupils’ creativity and how this can inform their planning.

For instance:

Creative thinking and behaviour?pupils may:• respond unpredictably• make connections and see unusual relationships• envisage what might be – ask What if?• play with ideas keep options open• represent ideas in a variety of forms• evaluate effects of ideas and actions

How common is this?How comfortable are teachers with this behaviour?

H. Re -old,new -wrong,sketchbooks

Creative thinking and behaviour?Creativity research suggests that:• at age 5 child’s potential for creativity is 98%• at age 10 child’s potential for creativity is 30%• at age 15 child’s potential for creativity is 12%• an adult’s potential for creativity is 2%

The role of the teacher?teachers can:• stimulate pupil’s imagination, make significant

connections with other learning and provide purpose and audience

• set challenging tasks that provide choice being clear about freedoms and constraints

• model creative thinking and behaviour, working collaboratively with innovative and enterprising individuals

What gets in the way?How can we improve our pedagogy?

The role of the teacher?Teachers can:• ask open ended questions, encouraging pupil’s to

explain and reflect critically• actively pursue pupils’ innovative ideas• regularly review work in progress, encouraging

pupils to build on ideas and actions and suggest ways forward

What gets in the way?How can we improve our pedagogy?

A creative learning environment?• a physical environment that excites curiosity• learning spaces and resources that stimulate• time for trying things out, taking risks, reflection,

discussion and review• support for self-initiated learning and collaboration• valuing and celebrating creative contributions and

outcomes• helping pupils gain confidence to take risks, cope

with setbacks, persevere

What does this look like?How can it become an entitlement for all pupils?

What do we do next?• Identify schools/teachers interested in trialling QCA

materials• Begin to create supportive research focused

development groups of teachers • Explore opportunities to identify, evaluate,

disseminate and celebrate creativity in our teachers’, pupils’ and environments’

Who are these researchers?How can we best manage this?What will it look like?

• Cultural Curriculum• Summary