Creativity Empowers Learning

Learn to create and create to learn

Use your blog to help build who you want to be

What Is Creativity?
Creativity focuses on the process of forming original ideas through exploration and discovery. In children, creativity develops from their experiences with the process, rather than concern for the finished product. Creativity is not to be confused with talent, skill, or intelligence. Creativity is not about doing something better than others, it is about thinking, exploring, discovering, and imagining.

How Can Teachers Encourage Creativity?

Encouraging creativity in young children is a process where teachers must be willing to allow, accept, and turn over some control to the children themselves. 

• Emphasise process rather than product.
• Provide a classroom environment that allows children to explore.
• Adapt to children's ideas rather than trying to structure the children's ideas to fit the adult's.
• Accept unusual ideas from children by suspending judgement of children's divergent problem solving.
• Use creative problem solving in all parts of the curriculum. Use the problems that naturally occur in everyday life.
• Allow time for children to explore all possibilities, moving from popular to more original ideas.

One thing I would like to encourage with my students is to create things by hand first, then  using their blog as the tool to share what they have created. 

Somewhere along the way, we become so busy looking at the ideas created by others that we forget we can create our own. 

How are you using creativity to hook your learners?