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Article No: 5 :
Creativity
Teachers develop their creativity:
Ideas for Teaching English Creatively
Are your students creative?
Creativity is the most difficult thinking skill
to acquire, and also the most sought-after.
We value it in our music, entertainment,
technology, another aspects of our
existence. We appreciate and yearn
for it because it enriches our understanding
and can make life easier.
Creativity always starts with imagination,
and history shows that many things we
imagine are late actually created.
Gene Roddenberry imagined the
Star Trek flip communicators in 1966,
and Motorola produced them in 1996
.In the mid 1800s, Augusta Ada
King envisioned a language for computing
machines that didn’t even exist; today she
is honored as the founder of modern
programing languages.
When Benjamin Bloom identified what
he called the taxonomy of the cognitive
domain, he ranked synthesis (creativity) as
one of the most difficult skills to master
because a person has to use all of the
other cognitive skills in the creative process.
Since, according to Bloom, creating is
the highest order of thinking, it should
be in the forefront of all learning
environments and an end goal.
When students create what they imagine,
they’re in the driver’s seat.
1. Creativity motivates kids to learn.
Decades of research link creativity with the intrinsic
motivation to learn. When students are focused on a
creative goal, they become more absorbed in their
learning and more driven to acquire the skills they
need to accomplish it. As proof, education leader
Ryan Imbrialecites his young daughter, who loves
making TikTok videos showcasing her gymnastics
skills.
“She spends countless hours on her mat, working
over and over again to try to get her gymnastics
moves correct so she can share her TikTok
video of her success,” says the executive
director of innovative learning
for Baltimore County Public Schools.
Students are most motivated to learn
when certain factors are present: They’re able
to tie their learning to their personal
interests, they have a sense of autonomy
and control over their task, and they feel
competent in the work they’re
doing. Creative projects can easily
meet all three conditions.
2. Creativity lights up the brain.
Teachers who frequently assign classwork
involving creativity are to observe
higher-order cognitive skills — problem
solving, critical thinking, making connections
between subjects — in their students.
And when teachers combine creativity
with transformative technology use, they
see even better outcomes.
Creative work helps students connect
new information to their prior knowledge,
says Wanda Terral, director of technology for
Lakeland School System outside of
Memphis. That makes the learning stickier.
“Unless there’s a place to ‘stick’ the
knowledge to what they already know,
it’s hard for students to make it a part of
themselves moving forward,” she says.
“It comes down to time. There’s not
enough time to give them the flexibility
to find out where the learning fits in
their life and in their brain.”
3. Creativity spurs emotional
development.
The creative process involves a lot of
trial and error. Productive struggle —
a gentler term for failure — builds
resilience, teaching students to push
through difficulty to reach success.
That’s fertile soil for emotional growth.
Creativity gives students the freedom
to explore and learn new things from
each other, Imperial adds.
As they overcome challenges and
bring their creative ideas to fruition,
“students begin to see that they have
limitless boundaries,” he says.
“That, in turn, creates confidence.
It helps with self-esteem and emotional
development.”
4. Creativity ignites students.
Many educators have at least one story
about a student who was struggling until
the teacher assigned a creative project.
When academically disinclined
students are permitted to unleash their
creativity or explore a topic of personal
interest, the transformation can be startling.
“Some students don’t do well on tests or
don’t do well grade-wise,but they’re
super-creative kids,” Terral says.
“It may be that the structure of school
is not good for them. But put that canvas
in front of them or give them tools so
they can sculpt, and their creativity
just oozes out of them.”
5. Creativity is skill of the
future.
Actually, it’s an essential job skil
l right now. Creative thinking is critical
for problem solving in their careers.
Creativity is the second most in-demand
job skill (after cloud computing),
topping the list of soft skills companies
need most.
As automation continues to swallow
up routine jobs, those who rely on
soft skills like creativity will see the
most growth.
“We can’t exist without the creative thinker.
It’s the idea generation and the opportunity to
collaborate with others that moves
work,”
Imbriale says.“It’s one thing to be able to sit
in front of computer screen and program
something. But it’s another to have the
conversations and engage
in learning about what somebody wants
out of a program to be written in order to
be able to deliver on that. That all comes
from a creative mindset.”
Language use is a creative act.
Some people cannot learn at all if they
are not allowed to be creative.
Creativity improves self-esteem.
Creative work in the language
classroom can lead to genuine
communication and co-operation.
Teachers develop their
creativity:
Step one: become a knowledgeable teacher
Step two: connect with other teachers
Step three: become a collector of teaching ideas
Step four: share your learning
Step five: remove the blocks to creative thinking
Step six: practice your creativity
Step seven: start experimenting your teaching
Step eight: make creativity a daily goal
1. Set up activities to explore their
creativity
Classroom example: Fourth-grade students
are presented with a sample of rocks.
They are to devise tests to determine what
kind of rocks they have based on the
definitions they’ve studied. Students
find their own ways to determine
differences in hardness, color, and shapes.
Another classroom example:
A kindergarten class creates a new
illustrated book each week that
celebrates a different member of
the class or an adult at the school.
Each book is full of pages drawn by
each student. They have the full liberty
of depicting what the person likes and
how they perceive him or her.
2. Value creativity and celebrate and
reward it.
Classroom example: Third-grade students
are learning about polygons and to see
if they know the concept, the teacher
takes them outside and gives each
student a sidewalk chalk. Each
student is given the task of
drawing several examples of
polygons on the driveway.
Once the students have accomplished
this, the teacher tells the students to
transform those shapes into
something they love. The students
want to show everyone their
geometric-based kittens, robots, and
dragons and then have an
opportunity to explain to the whole
class why they liked them.
3. Teach students the skills they need
to be creative.
Classroom example: A second-grade
class is learning about the concept of freezing.
The teacher asks one question to get them
started, “Does only water freeze?”
The students then design an experiment
to determine what other things freeze.
The limit is that they can only
use what they have in the classroom
at the time.
The students come up with a list of
things that they will leave outside to see
if they freeze: water, juice,vinegar, glue,
glass cleaner, toothpaste, and paper.
Some suggestions they decide are already
solids and shouldn’t go outside: pencils,
erasers, and books (but somehow paper
stays on the test list).
The next day, they discuss their findings
and have engaging conversations about
why the paper is stiff and the vinegar has
not frozen.The initial discussion among
students about what might freeze fosters
skills such as advocating for one’s ideas
and compromising. The follow-up discussion
encourages deductive reasoning and
active listening.
4. Remove constraints for
creativity
Classroom example: A sixth-grade class
produces Halloween costume plays.
In order to wear costumes to school,
the students have to write a play that
incorporates each of their characters
into a plot and then present the play.
For instance, they have to come up
with how a giant soda can and the
superhero Wonder Woman will interact.
The students love the challenge.
5. Allow students to explore creativity in
relevant ways.
6. Value creativity and celebrate and
reward it.
7. Teach students the skills they need to
be creative.
We Learn by "Doing"?
Imagination and creativity are the traits that
fuel the future. Both serve to inspire students
and should be integrated into every part of
learning. In planning and designing
learning for students, this we know:
Teaching students how to think is more
important than teaching students
what to think.
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