The four videos for today all stressed the growing importance of fostering creativity. John Sealy Brown pointed out that our world is changing at an exponential pace. This means that teaching students skills can't possible prepare them for the future, because new skills are constantly being created. In order to prepare our students for the future, we need to foster a creative spirit in them. Howard Gardner expanded on this idea pointing out that every person has multiple intelligences. Every person has something to offer, and has an intelligence that can be fostered. From Ken Robinson and Daniel Pink I learned how to begin to think about fostering creativity in my own classroom. I need to allow time and a secure environment to let my students be creative. To choose to learn about what interests them and to feel unbound by can't or don'ts.
In terms of my own teaching context, I have found it hard to implement opportunities for creativity in the classroom. I think I need to be creative in thinking of providing small opportunities for creativity throughout the day. Working at a Title 1 school means that the days are pretty regimented and most of our time is devoted to, Ken Robinson would be mad, Language Arts and Math. I hope that my research about providing students with more opportunities to choose what they study in a way is giving them space to be creative. A main point I took away from the content this week is that allowing children to be themselves is highly correlated with their creativity. I can encourage my students to be themselves every day and try to embrace that side of creativity as well. I think that one of the best ways to implement Mobley's 6 keys to creativity is through Problem/Project Based Learning. Working in groups on a project is a non-linear form of learning. It is an environment where learning is a process and being wrong is a necessary part of that process. It also gives students the opportunity to be around, and working with, their other creative classmates. When students are working together to solve a problem they turn the impossible to possible and are encouraged to think of creative solutions. I hope to use this teaching strategy soon!
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Mayra Cindy De la Torre
11/8/2017 07:05:00 pm
You make good suggestions as what you plan to do in order to be more creative in the classroom. I agree that it's hard to find time to incorporate more creativity in the classroom. Our schedules are so packed with reading, and math, we get used to this schedule and and adding creativity feels impossible to accomplish. We have to find some time in our day but how?
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