Teaching Creatively

Teaching for Creativity?

or

How much of the creativity in your lessons is yours?

How creative are your students?

Why is creativity so important?

How creative are you?

Creative teachers

What would a creative teacher wear?

What would a creative teacher’s classroom be like?

What would creative teachers hate?

What would a creative teacher eat?

What would you ask?

What would a creative learner

be like?

Creative learning

Views of Creativity

Creative rhetorics....creative schools?

For each of the given descriptions of creativity, imagine what a school would be like if this was the prevailing view.

What decisions would be taken with regard to organising the curriculum, timetabling, resources, staffing etc.

Would you like to work there?

Creativity and critical thinkingNational Curriculum Cross-curriculum dimensions

All Our Futures(1999)

“Imaginative activity fashioned

so as to produce outcomes that are both original and of

value.”

All Our Futures:Creativity, Culture and Education 1999

Teaching for creativity or teaching creatively – what’s the difference?

Where good ideas come from…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

Bloom’s revised

taxonomy

Knowledge

Comprehension

Application

Analysis

Evaluation

Creativity

ACTIVITY

Look at the list of questions classified according to Bloom’s taxonomy.

What is it about them that puts them in that category?

Creativity needs space to think

Changing the language.

What happens when….What might happen when….

What is….What could be……

Why does….Why might…..

ACTIVITY

Look at the question examples with the “new improved version.

How might they increase the possibility of creative thinking?

Creativity loves constraint

What car do they drive?

Techniques

Forced analogy

Why is ICT like an onion?Compare differentiation with learning to swim.What’s your analogy for education?

Function fixation

How could you use a digital camera as a recording device?

How could you use a digital camera as a measuring device?

How else could you use a digital camera?

Draw a picture to illustrate your job.

Draw the picture your best friend would draw.

Re-Present

Re-Present

Three little pigs

Sketch a graph of the wolf’s emotions as the story progresses.

What would you put on a reote control

for maths?

Drama

Changes of state

Boiling points

"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

Mark Twain